Haas
Ollie Bearman
“It’s a shame, as we were on for a good result, getting lucky with the incident ahead of us. We had the pace to be there though, and we were fighting in the top 10. Now we’ve lost some points against competitors, which is a shame, but we have one more race to go to do our best and claw it all back. I’ve got to look at the positives, and although the car was tough to drive, we found ourselves in a point-scoring position. I’m looking forward to resetting and ending the season on a high.”
Esteban Ocon
“I don’t really have words for the penalty, I don’t know where that’s come from. I’ve done over 100 starts and have always done the same procedure. It killed our whole race, and then we had to serve a double penalty, and then being on the wrong tire, that was the end of our race really. The next race will be an important one, last year the team had a lot of pace, so we’ll see what we get.”
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal
“It’s been an extremely tough day. It had good potential, the pace in the car was good, and both drivers were much happier with the car. It’s a shame with Esteban, there was the smallest of movements from his car on the start grid, which we need to understand more about. We made a couple of big errors on the pit stops, we’re not proud of it, but when doing 24 races and however many pit stops we do – we all make mistakes.
"What’s important is that we stick together and support each other. We have one more race, an important one, next weekend, and it’s a good thing as we’ll get back up from this one and put on our best performance from FP1 through to the race. We’re determined to finish the season on a high, that’s our focus."
