Ocon expects to miss out on new front wing
Manama : Esteban Ocon expects to miss out on Force India’s new Formula 1 front wing if the team decides to use it in this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix.
Force India introduced a significant upgrade for the season opening Australian Grand Prix but its updated front wing was not expected until the second race.
The team has only brought one upgraded version to Bahrain though and Ocon said on Thursday that Perez, ahead in the championship by virtue of his higher finishing position in Melbourne, will be the driver to use it.
“We only have one, we’ll test it and normal policy is the driver on top of the championship [gets it],” said Ocon.
“Even though we have no points it should be Sergio.”
Ocon said he was still optimistic for the Bahrain race because the team had a detailed Friday plan to work out what went wrong in Australia.
“It’s clear where we are and we’re not where we want to be exactly,” said Ocon.
“We’re bottom of the midfield to be honest but that’s not what’s important.
“This will be a very important weekend to understand a lot of things, to understand why we couldn’t improve so much from testing to the race.”
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