Pasc🗹al Wehrlein has jumped to the defence of the 'underrated' Rio Haryanto after suggesting his former Manor Racing team-mate could have out-performed Esteban Ocon in qualifying for the Belg📖ian Grand Prix.

Ocon makes his F1 debut this weekend at Spa-Francorchamps after being called up to replace Haryanto, the highly-rated Frenchman qualifying 18th (starting 17th) for his first a𝔉ttempt.

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However, with Wehrlein cracking Q2 en route to 16th (15th after penalties) on the grid, the German suggests Manor could have had 𒀰two car💙s in the second phase of qualifying for the first time if Haryanto was still competing.

Throwing his suppo𝓰rt behind the Indonesian racer, Wehrlein admits iღt is a shame Haryanto has been demoted to reserve driver, calling him 'underrated and underestimated'

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"Esteban is a very highly-rated driver and to beat him by 🌞half a second in qualifying was very good and I'm happy with that.

"Maybe now you can see that Rio was actually very𓆉 good and performing really well and I feel like today he could have done the same, so I think everyone underrated him or underestimated wh𝔉at he could do. I feel a bit sad for that because actually he was a good team-mate and he did a good job."

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