Neither Haas driver could climb up into the points on Sunday in Jeddah, with Ollie Bearman finishing 13th and Esteban Ocon in P14. Both admitted to struggles in Saudi Arabia, with the team trying differing strategies in a bid to make something happen.
Alas, it did not go their way despite pitting Ocon at the end of the first lap when the Safety Car was called. That left the Frenchman 49 laps to survive on his hard compound tyres, but while he did so, he did not have the pace to hold onto a top-10 berth.
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“Here we struggled basically,” Ocon explained. “We tried something on strategy, we positioned ourselves quite into the points quite clearly, and if something would have happened we would have consolidated that position.
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