“It’s been a really tough one from begin to end, there’s nothing to find out about this weekend. We simply have to concentrate on the following one and switch the web page on this one.”
The occasion marked fairly a change in fortunes for Alpine following their upturn of type at latest race weekends. Requested why issues appeared to have gone so mistaken at Silverstone, Ocon – who will go away the staff on the finish of the season – responded: “Not a lot to touch upon that.
“I can’t offer you a solution however, yeah, when the observe was fitted to slicks we had been on the inters, when the observe was fitted to inters we had been on the slicks. When the observe was fitted to low downforce, we had been on the excessive, and lots of extra sadly. Not a lot to remove sadly.”
On the opposite aspect of the storage, the weekend was additionally a difficult one for Pierre Gasly. The French driver was already set to begin from the again on account of an engine penalty, however his race was over earlier than it began when he returned to the pit lane on the finish of the formation lap owing to a gearbox downside.
