“That’s probably a lesson that actually when you’re not on it and you’re not focused, you make those mistakes. Probably, if there wasn’t a yellow flag there, I would have just been focusing more. I wouldn’t have gone off and cost the team a comfortable P3.
“I definitely damage the car a bit. I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to continue but it kind of sorted itself out as the laps progressed. I think the toes got bent at the rear end. I felt really uncomfortable in the car, but we were the quickest on track during that period. So, I don’t really know what was going on.
“I was being held up by Ocon and Lewis, and Charles [Leclerc] was closing me down. I was definitely not going to risk anything on Lewis in conditions like this. It’s bitterly disappointing when you do everything right for 98 per cent of it, but that one tiny mistake costs everything.”
