After a rather mediocre start to the weekend for Esteban Ocon due to not having the pace of his teammate in the first free practice, the Frenchman was determined to turn the situation around with a great test session on Saturday morning. morning.
However, he lost control of his car and crashed into the guards and was unable to complete Free Practice 3 on the new American circuit. This accident also caused him to be left out of the classification, as confirmed by the team itself through a statement on Alpine’s official Twitter account.
“We can confirm that unfortunately Esteban [Ocon] will not participate in qualifying this afternoon. His chassis broke in the impact with the barrier and cannot be changed in time. Esteban is physically well and will race tomorrow,” said the Enstone team. on their social networks.
In this way, the Gallic driver ruined all the possibilities of getting more points in his locker, at least for the moment, since coming back in Sunday’s appointment will be very complicated. Inevitably, Ocon will start from the last position on the starting grid, and he is left quite discouraged because in the last practice session, his team-mate, Fernando Alonso, finished fourth.
The performance of the team that finished in fifth position last season was promising after it was revealed that they had installed the two new funds in the A522 , but their chances will be compromised by this problem.
Esteban Ocon was 15th at the start of Friday in Miami, while in the second practice session he was 9th . The good news is that the rider is physically fit, and will have no setbacks to be present on the grid at the opening round of this track, despite the force of the hit, even more spectacular from the onborad camera.
