TGR Haas F1 Team finished with Ollie Bearman 13th and Esteban Ocon 14th at the British Grand Prix, held Sunday at Silverstone.
Esteban started from 17th position, also on medium tires, and made progress through the opening laps to run 11th, but lost places as the stint progressed. Esteban came into the pit lane on lap 21, during a brief virtual safety car period caused by an umbrella on the circuit’s run-off, but unfortunately lost time due to a slow change onto hard tires.
Esteban also pitted under the late safety car period, taking on red tires, and finished 15th, which became 14th upon the application of Antonelli’s time sanction.
TGR Haas F1 Team holds seventh position in the Constructors’ Championship on 21 points.
Up front Scuderia Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc claimed his first victory of the season, ahead of George Russell of Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton of Scuderia Ferrari.
Esteban Ocon: “To go from P17 to P11 on the first lap was quite nice – I gained a lot of places around the outside of many cars and that was great. We've been working hard on the starts, and lately that’s paid off and we were near the points. We obviously were falling back little by little, still fighting with the Williams and a few cars out there. I saw there might be a chance with the VSC, but it only lasted five seconds, and when I entered the pits, it had already gone green again so it wasn't on my side. We had a problem on the rear right during the pit stop which made it really long. It wasn't quite the perfect race, but we had a car that was performing normally without any big issues, and I didn’t have the degradation problem that I've had in the last few races. The mechanics and engineers did a good job on the car, they’ve really improved it since the last few races. I enjoyed driving that race, being there and being able to fight without some kind of issue, but we need a bit more pace to get closer to the points.”
