After running the entire race on the same set of haꦐrd tyres, the Alpine driver dived into the pitlane on the final lap to serve his mandatory pit stop. 

But as Ocon e🥃ntered the pitlane ♔he had to take avoiding action to narrowly miss a group of F1 personnel and photographers. 

"That is not s🧸omething that we want to see," Ocon said.

"I don't understand why we are starting to prepare the podium and the ceremony when we are𝓀 still racing, there is one lap to go and there are still people who didn't pit.

"Arriving at 300 km/h, braking very late and I💖 see the barriers and the people all around. This is crazy, it could have been a big, big one to❀day.

"It's definitely somethin🐽g that needs to be discussed as it is something we don't want to see.” 🅺;

Onboard footage from Ocon’s car 𝓡showed just how close he was to hitting someone. 

“It was quite close, I had to lift off, I had to✅ back off, 🧸so I would not have liked to have been the ones in the middle there,” Ocon explained. 

"If Iღ miss the braking point, it is a big☂ disaster, so that is a crazy moment.”

The F💖IA is i꧟nvestigating the shocking incident. 

"Repr♓esentatives of the FIA responsible for the parc ferme area at pit entry are required to report to race stewards (at 14.30 BST) due to "personnel blocking the fast lane in the pit lane on the final lap of the 2023 Azerbaijan Grand Prix while the pit lane remained open,” an FIA statement read.