Pierre Gasly: ‘With Ocon, it’s always the same thing…’

Pierre Gasly was left disappointed but not surprised by Esteban Ocon’s on-track move during their fight for position in Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix, saying that “it’s always the same thing” with the Force India Formula 1 ꦗdriver.

Gasly felt he was forced off-track by Ocon when the pair went wheel-to-wheel at Turn 4 in the closing st🐭ages of the race, only for the stewa♔rds to deem that a car’s width of space had been left, and that the Toro Rosso driver had gone off as a result of a lock-up.

Gasly: ‘With Ocon, it’s always the same thing…’

Pierre Gasly was left disappointed but not surprised by Est💙eban Ocon’s on-track move during their fight for position in Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix, saying that “i♐t’s always the same thing” with the Force India Formula 1 driver.

Gasly felt he was forced off-track by Ocon when the pair went wheel-to-wheel at Turn 4 in the clos🍌ing stages of the race, only for the s♏tewards to deem that a car’s width of space had been left, and that the Toro Rosso driver had gone off as a result of a lock-up.

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Gasly managed to pass Ocon and score a point for finishing 10th, but remained unhappy with his compatriots’ actions after the race in the latest incident bꩵ💃etween the two rivals.

“With Ocon it’s always the same thing. ♓I’ve known hiꦡm for a long time, there are a lot of chances that things happen,” Gasly said.

“I think he wasn’t very happy that I had started last and managed to overtake him, 💧so he pushed me wide and I had to go off track. I could have forced my way in Turn 5 and we would have had contact, but it wasn’t worth it, as I could have ano🔯ther go after that.

“For me it wasn’t fair, bec💯ause you leave the space for one car, but if they♉ say you can race aggressively, I don’t mind.

“I think compare it with many other situationsꦓ, like with me in Silverstone, so it seems to be quite a grey area, as normally you should leave space for one car and clearly there wasn’t space for one car there.

“In the end I don’tﷺ care, because I fi💞nished ahead of him and I scored one point, and he didn’t score points.”

Gasly confirmed he would look to speak with FIA race director Charlie Whiting about the matter in order 🎀to clarify what is permitted when fighting on-track.

“I’ll try to speak to Charlie ab🐷out it, just to know, because if th⛦is is allowed then I know what I can do,” Gasly said.

“I need to look at the footage again, but from the cockpiꦡt it looked too aggreಞssive for me, I had to go off track.

“Probably if I had ꦦfinished behind him, I wo𓆉uld have a different view, but today I finished in front.”

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