Pierre Gasly blasts Esteban Ocon for Lap 1 clash: ‘We can’t afford this sort of behaviour’
Piཧerre Gasly was understandably unhappy with teammate Esteban Ocon following their clash on the opening lap in🌌 Monaco.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly has blasted Alpine F1 teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon after their collision ไon the opening lap of the Mo🔯naco Grand Prix.
Ocon attempted an ambitious overtake into ಞPortier on the first lap as they battled for position.
His aggressive lunge saw the pair collid෴e on the exit of the cor𒆙ner, sending Ocon’s car airborne.
Ocon was unable to particip🅺ate in the race once it got back underway after the⛄ red flag.
On the other hand, Gasly was able to conti𒆙nue, scoring Alpine’s second point of the year.
Reflec✨ting on𒊎 the clash after the race, Gasly told Sky Sports he was “disappointed” with Ocon after he failed to respect Alpine’s “clear instructions”.
“I am just disappointed. I am just disappointed with Esteban ✤because it shouldn’t happen, and for the team,” he said.
“We’ve got 1200 pe๊ople🧸 working for us and we cannot afford to have this sort of behaviour.
“We had clear instructions before thꦑe race and this hasn't been respected, and you should never take that much risk to take both cars out with your teammates.
“I'm sureꦡ it will be discussed and weও just can't afford to have a similar situation in the future."
Ocon took f♑ull blame for the incident, owning up to it on social media.
The former Mercedes reserve driver wrote on his X account: “Today’s incident was my fault, the gap was too small in the end and I apologise to the team on this one. Hoping for a deserved points-finish for the team today༺.”
Ocon was handed a 10-second time penalty for his role in the incident - which has been converted into a five-place gri𒆙d penalty for the next round.
The stewards noted: “It was clear to us that the collision was caused solely by the overly ambitious overtaking attempt,♔ from too far back, by car 31 [Ocon] and was therefore wholly to blame for the incident.
“The baseline penalty for causing a collision i💜n t🐼his season is a 10-second time penalty. This is what we imposed on car 31. However, given that car 31 did not finish the race, it will be converted to a drop of five grid positions for the next race in which the driver participates.”
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