What About Hamilton-Leclerc? Ocon Bashes F1’s Double-Standards After His Incident With Vettel

Esteban Ocon finished the Italian Grand Prix in P10 to take the final point in the race. But the Alpine driver had an eventful race as he was given a 5-second penalty for clashing with Sebastian Vettel. The decision left Ocon unable to challenge for more points.

The Frenchman was not pleased with the penalty and called out the stewards for not being consistent when giving penalties. He stated that the incident from the 2019 battle with Leclerc and Hamilton, at Monza, was similar to his and Seb’s.

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“I got the five-second penalty for Seb”: Esteban Ocon

As reported by Motorsport-Week, Ocon mentioned that his defense on Seb was similar to Charles’s defense on Lewis in Monza 2019. On that day, the stewards did not give Leclerc any penalty, but Ocon got a 5- second-time penalty.

“We’ve worked extremely hard on a difficult weekend and we lost out on some racing incidents which for once I disagree with, what happened in the race,” Ocon said.

“I got the five-second penalty for Seb. The same happened to Lewis and Charles in 2019. The track basically becomes more narrow. We had a little contact, but no damage between the two cars,” stated the Alpine driver.

“That five-second was quite costly in the end and I also had to give the position back to Nicholas [Latifi] at the [re]start, which to me, doesn’t feel correct because I didn’t really gain an advantage on that one,” said Ocon about how the penalty impacted his race.

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The Alpine driver analyzes his performance at the Italian Grand Prix

Esteban Ocon finished in the points with his teammate Alonso, who also finished in the points in P8. Ocon mentioned he was a bit frustrated he couldn’t get more performance out of the car.

“It was an eventful race. We managed to score points with both cars. We clearly extracted a good amount of performance from it. It’s a bit frustrating but we’ll come back stronger at the next one.” said Ocon.

Alpine are currently fifth in the constructors’ championship ahead of AlphaTauri. While both Alpine cars finished in points, the Italian team had both drivers in the garage before the first part of the race.

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