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Hungarian Grand Prix

Team-mates FURIOUS over 'sickening' incident in Hungarian GP

Things quickly went pear-shaped for the team on a dreadful day all round

Joe Ellis

Sunday 23 July 2023 19:57

Alpine endured perhaps its worst race of the 2023 season as both Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly retired from the Hungarian GP.

A disappointing qualifying put the two team-mates in the thick of the midfield squabble at the start and that proved to be their downfall.

Zhou Guanyu, who had a shocking start, hit the back of the returning Daniel Ricciardo going into the first turn which sent the AlphaTauri into Ocon, who in turn collected Gasly.

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Ocon managed to do two laps before pulling into the pits to end his race while Gasly had to call it a day after just one lap of the Hungaroring.

Ocon: It's just sickening

It was a day to forget for Alpine, who also double DNF'ed in Silverstone

"I'm disappointed to be doing so few laps,” Ocon said to Canal+. “It's the consequence of starting so far back, everyone's trying to get into the points.

"It's a bit sad to see what happened. I've seen the footage again and it's just sickening.”

“We got off to a very good start, but I didn't have much room so I had to go through the grass a bit," Gasly added.

“I was in a good position at the first corner. Things aren't working out for us. We need to put a stop to this series of events that's happening to us at the moment. We're not performing well enough."