Esteban Ocon: "It's already a positive thing to have made progress with the car."

Qualifying two positions behind his teammate Oliver Bearman, the Norman driver notes that the American team was able to move closer to the top 10, while still lacking the performance to really go for Q3 qualification. Or with He explained the gap to his teammate by a slight contact with the wall in the final sector. Without that, he might have started Sunday closer to the top 10.

"It was positive; I think we made good progress between yesterday and today, between this morning and now."he told Canal+ “I think we both felt the car much better, both Ollie and I, it was much more competitive. We're a bit closer to where we should be compared to Friday, but we're definitely still missing a little something to be at the front. On my lap, I touched the wall a bit and the steering wheel was a little bent for the last corner, that's where I lost a little bit of ground. I could have gained a few places.”

The pilot Haas Haas is now counting on the weather, which is expected to disrupt Sunday's race, to seize an opportunity. After positioning Oliver Bearman as "best of the rest" at the start of the year, Haas might pull off another upset if the anticipated rain materializes, on a Miami track that doesn't drain perfectly and is therefore difficult to control with a lot of standing water.

“It’s already a positive thing to have managed to improve the car. On Sunday, we don’t know what might happen with the weather. We’ve never driven in the rain with these cars, will it rain? If it rains, it will create opportunities, so we’ll see.”

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