Esteban Ocon was left fuming after his Alpine Formula 1 team switched him to full-wet Pirelli tyres when rain returned in the closing stages of the Dutch Grand Prix.
After he parked in the pitlane, Ocon's cockpit camera caught him shaking his head in frustration.pitted with a puncture, but he remained convinced that more points were in the table.
"Unfortunately, we let these points just slip away at the end," Ocon said."I wasn't happy with the call of the full wets. But also we boxed one lap too late. "The tyres were not ready in the garage for me to box at the lap that I asked on the radio. So I had to stay out on slicks when it was wet and lost five positions. So went from sixth to eleventh."Asked by Motorsport.com if the later Red Bull switch to wets indicated that the call could have paid off he, said:"No, it was not the right tyre at any moment. First, when you have a Red Bull, you have some margin in the front. We don't have any margin.
He also admitted that it was frustrating to have not been able to pit for inters on the first lap, when Gasly and others stopped."But even with that, we could have done a P6 finish today, and it would not have mattered that obviously we lost out a little bit on that first pit stop. The big cost one was the last one."
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