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Marcus Ericsson believes Sauber's decision to bring him in for an early pit stop didn't pay off.
The Swede was battling Kevin Magnussen for the final points paying position, and in a bid to get by the Renault driver, he was brought in on lap eight.
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However, the undercut didn't work and after spending much of the race in traffic, the best he could manage was 17th, much to his frustration.
"I think the guys took a bit of a gamble with the early stop to get the undercut but I think it was a bit early!" he said.
"So nobody really reacted and the problem was we came out and very early on in the second stint I caught the queue of Ocon, Button, Bottas, Sainz, this train which was going very slow because Ocon was at the head of this train and holding everyone back. Obviously here it is so difficult to overtake so the whole second stint was a disaster really, just staying in that queue."
"I think it was an opportunity missed because the first stint after the start and everything that had happened promised quite a lot. We tried to do something different and it didn’t pay off, for sure."
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