Esteban Ocon “proud” and Pierre Gasly “very happy” in Belgium

Esteban Ocon (FRA / Alpine), 7th in the Belgian GP: “It’s really a very good result. It was excellent, our best weekend of the season, and the best since I joined the team (early 2020) in terms of performance. With the improvements made here, there is no comparison to our pace before. It brings confidence for the rest of the year. We had really high speed throughout the race and the weekend. We can be proud of what we have done”.

Pierre Gasly (FRA / AlphaTauri), 9th in the Belgian GP: “It was amazing. At first extremely disappointed to start from the pit lane, because we had to start 8th, which was a good omen. We had an electrical problem, I had to go back to the garage and until 90 seconds from the start we thought we couldn’t start. Eventually the car started. I started last and I knew it was going to be extremely complicated to come back up. In the end I’m really happy, we made the right strategic choices, I pushed a lot to stop (at the pits) quite early and have an aggressive strategy. The team listened to me and it paid off so I’m really, really happy.”