MoneyGram Haas F1 Team finished with Oliver Bearman 17th, while Esteban was forced to retire at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, held Sunday at Imola.
Esteban started from 18th on medium tires and executed a strong first lap to gain two positions to 16th. Esteban came in at the end of lap one for fresh hard tires, as part of a planned aggressive strategy, but his race unfortunately came to a premature conclusion on lap 29 due to a technical issue.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team maintains sixth position in the Constructors’ Championship, on 20 points.
Up front World Champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing claimed victory, ahead of the McLaren pair of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
Esteban Ocon: “We had an air consumption issue, so I had to stop the car at the exit of Turn 7. It will be investigated but it wasn’t ever going to be a great race to be fair, so plenty for us to review from this weekend and hopefully we can come back stronger in Monaco. I had a really good race start and made a few positions, and we boxed to try something different – and were ahead of quite a few cars at that point – but unfortunately degradation was a lot higher for me, which was unexpected.”
