Second practice was heavily delayed after the opening session was abandoned after just eight minutes of ru💦nning when Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz struck a 𒁏loose water valve cover. 

Fans had stuck around for several hours in the hope of finally seeing some action in FP2 but were asked to leave t𒈔he grandstands shortly before the🍎 session finally got underway. 

Ocon said he felt sorry for fans who spent their hard-earned money on tickets, only to be removed due to “logical consi𒈔derations”. 

“Obviously I’m feeꦉling sorry for the fans out there,” the 🤡Frenchman said. 

“Hopefully we’ll catch back up on the show and have some good show💜 for them tomorrow because they haven’t seen a car run today and that is obviously not acceptable.”

Ocon badly damaged his Alpine when he ran over the dislodged drain cover but admitteꦰd he felt lucky to avoid aﷺ more serious accident. 

“I was lucky that the session got delayed because my car was very damaged in FP1,” h💝e explained. “So a bit of a crazy-emotion day, I wouꦇld say.

“Luckily I’m fine, as well, because it could have easily come througꦡh the car, the object.”

AlphaTauri’s Daniel Ricciardo also shared his sympathy towards the fans and said FP2 initially didn’t feelℱ worth it. 

“The grandstand situation, obviously that’s a bummer. But I guess if we didn’t do the FP2,ꦫ then it probably♈ would’ve got scrapped and we just would have gone into FP3,” the Australian said. 

“So at least like this, maybe the fans got to, at the very least, watch it on TV. We 🐓try to be positive, but it’s obviously a difficult situation. 

“But I also don’t want to shit on th🌸e sport. It’s the first time here, it’s a massi♊ve project and things unfortunately happened. I know no one wanted them to, but I guess they did the best they could with what they had.”