Second practice was heavily delayed after the opening sess♚ion was abandoned after just eight minutes of running when Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz str𝓰uck a loose water valve cover. 

Fans had stuck around for several hours in the h🌸ope of finally seeing some action in FP2 but were asked to leave the grandstands shortly before the session finally got underway. 

Ocon said he felt sorry for fans who spent their hard-earned mo🐼ney on tickets, only to be removed due to “logical considerations”. 

“Obviously I’m feeling sorry for the fans o𝔉ut there,” the Frenchman said. 

“Hopefully we’ll catch back up on the show and have some good show for them tomorrow be🧔cause they haven’t seen a car ru🎐n today and that is obviously not acceptable.”

Ocon badly damaged his🔥 Alpine when he ran over the dislodged drain cover but admitted he felt lucky to a𓂃void a more serious accident. 

“I was lucky that the session got delayed because my caꦓr was very damaged in FP1,” he explained. “So a bit of a crazy-emotion day, I would say.

“✱Luckily I’m fine, as well, because it could have꧂ easily come through the car, the object.”

AlphaTauri’s Daniel Ricciardo also shared his sympathy towards thܫe fans and said FP2 initially didn’t feel worth it. 

“The grandstand sꦕituation, obviously that’s a bummer. But I guess if we didn’t do the FP2, then it probably would’ve got scrapped and we just would have gone into FP3,” the Australian sa💎id. 

“So at least like this, maybe the fans got to, at the very least, watch it on TV. We try to be pos꧒itive, 🍨but it’s obviously a difficult situation. 

“But I also don’t want to shit on the sport. It’s the first time here, it’s a massive project and things unfortunate꧋ly happened. I know no one wanted them to, but I guess they did the best they could with what they had.”