Ocon not ready to forgive Perez after Singapore clash

Esteban Ocon says he will not be forgetting the latest Force India clash between teammates any time soon. Ocon was hit by Sergio Perez on lap one, with the contact sending the Frenchman into the wall and out of the race after just three corners.

The two clashed several times last season which led the team to impose a team order banning the pair from racing each other on track. After the latest incident, the team might be ready to pull the trigger on a similar order once more.

"He apologised to me, in the room he said he apologised," Ocon told Motorsport.com. "But it's not because of that that everything's gone.

"The only thing I look at at the moment is that we come home with no points on a weekend where we should have been both in the points, getting strong results.

"We had the pace for it. And yeah, it's a terrible situation to be where we are now.

"That's all I can say, there's nothing else to comment about. No, it's not the same situation as last year, we've turned the page from there. And that's it really."

Teammate Perez added that the incident cost the team points in a race they had expected to score very well in.

"It was very unfortunate. As I'm picking up the power in Turn 3 I just get a contact from another car, on my front tyre. I did not even realise at the time that it was Esteban.

"As I got it through the radio I was quite sorry for the team, because I thought we were on to a great day today, with a lot of points."