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Alpine had no safety concerns about Ocon's strategy

Marcin Budkowski says Alpine had no safety concerns when deciding not to pit Esteban Ocon at the Turkish Grand Prix. With a pit-stop not mandatory at Istanbul Park as it was a wet race, Ocon along with Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton decided to try to make it to the end of the race on the set of intermediate tyres he started on. While Leclerc and Hamilton both ultimately pitted, the Frenchman did indeed finish the race and scored a point, crossing the line in P10 just before the Alfa Romeos passed him. His front-right tyre in particular was in terrible condition by the end, so much so that he wants to hang it in the team factory. “I don’t know when is the last time that nobody had a...
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