2024 Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Highlights

Esteban started from P17 on New Mediums and finished P13: Pit-Stops on Lap 7 for New Hards. His fastest Lap was 1 min 33.481 secs. Pierre started from P18 on New Mediums and DNF.

Esteban Ocon

Realistically, that’s all we could achieve in the race today. We took it as another opportunity to learn more about the car. There was some chaos at the start, so we did well staying clean and capitalising on some positions. There were some moments of close wheel-to-wheel racing, which was sometimes good. We are just not quick enough to score points and that’s where we are at this moment in time. We will keep our heads high and keep working to find performance. I am in Enstone this week and look forward to seeing everybody there and collectively working hard to improve our current situation. Australia is our next opportunity, and I look forward to it.

Pierre Gasly

Obviously, it’s a disappointing day for us in Jeddah. We had a gearbox issue on the formation lap where we lost sixth gear and then lost synchronisation of all the other gears, so we had to retire the car. We must investigate why this happened, as it cost us valuable track time today. It’s disappointing for the whole team as everyone works hard and brings good energy all weekend, but things are not going our way. It’s not easy at the moment, but we need to keep our heads high and keep working to find the performance we lack. We’ll stick together and go to Australia, ready to go again.

Bruno Famin – Team Principal

We said it would be a tough start to the season, and it has been a tough first few weeks with the test and two Grand Prix. Even if upgrades are coming, we need to understand our lack of performance. Today, we must investigate the gearbox problem, which cost Pierre valuable track time. There is only one thing we can do, and that is to continue working hard together to improve the current situation that we are in. Credit to the factories in Enstone and Viry and the trackside team for their fantastic mindset and tenacity to quickly enhance our current performance level. Next stop, Australia.

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