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Esteban Ocon made his Formula One debut on Sunday at the Belgian Grand Prix, finishing in 16th position. However, Ocon feels he had the potential to finish higher if it were not for problems that he suffered with his brakes.
Ocon was running in 11th before a horror crash from Kevin Magnussen brought out a red flag, and the Frenchman states that a problem with the brake duct hampered his chances of a higher result.
"The race I think was quite good," Ocon said. "We took the opportunity that was on track, putting some pressure on the guys in front and making my way through on the first lap. I think that was important to do, staying out of trouble."
"After that we broke a brake duct which made us lose a lot of time in the race so that wasn’t ideal and was very tough to finish on the tyres at the end but we still kept Nasr behind and I think that was the only one we were racing really."
“Not [close to] retiring, but it was just losing performance, losing aero. In the end that’s why it was so tough to finish with the tyres. I think one more lap and it could have been a disaster.”
“I think we degraded quite a lot but this brake duct affected us a lot, it’s something like almost one second per lap so it didn't help. I think with that we would have been more competitive and maybe taking the Renault would have been possible."
"We also missed a pit stop which was seven seconds on one pit stop, so when [Jolyon] Palmer stopped and came out again I could have been in front of him when he put on the supersoft, so it would have been a different race. But with a lot of ifs you never get anywhere so we need to learn from that and keep moving forward.”
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