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 loose water valve cover. 

Fans had stuck around foꦗr several h🐈ours in the hope of finally seeing some action in FP2 but were asked to leave the grandstands shortly before the session finally got underway. 

Ocon said he felt sor🐠ry for fans who spent their hard-earned money on tickets, only to be removed due to “logical considerations”.&n♛bsp;

“Obviously I’m feeling sorry for the fans ou🥂t there,” t🌟he 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 a🦩cceptable.”

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

“I was lucky that the session got delayed because my car was very damaged in FP1🌱,” he explained. “So a b༺it of a crazy-emotion day, I would say.

“Luckily I’m fine, as well, because it could hav🤡e easily come through the car, t🎐he object.”

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

“The grandstand situation, obviously that’s a bummer. But I guess if we didn’t do🐼 the FP2, 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.&nbꦍsp;

“But I also don’t want to shit on the sport. It’s the first time here, it’s a massive project and things unfortunately happened. I know no one wanted the⛎m to, but I guess they did the best they could with what they 🐬had.”