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Esteban Ocon: “My qualifying was a disaster”

Esteban Ocon felt his qualifying performance at the Yas Marina Circuit on Saturday was not as good as it should have been after struggling to get any kind of performance from the Ultrasoft tyre, a tyre that team-mate Pascal Wehrlein put to good use to get through to Q2. The Manor Racing MRT driver felt he was having a good weekend until qualifying, but the failure to improve with the Ultrasoft tyre meant he will start Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix from twentieth on the grid, not where he wanted to be, especially with Wehrlein up in sixteenth. Despite the result of qualifying, Ocon is hopeful he can make up ground on Sunday and end his final race with Manor before he moves to the Sahara...
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