The Frenchman felt he was compromised by not getting the latest updated floor until Saturday, and by being forced wide at the messy start. From there, he found it hard to recover.
“In Turn One and Two I was on a good line initially, but all the guys spun in front so I had to go on the Astroturf,” he said. “And I lost quite a bit of positions there. If I could have followed [sixth-placed] Hulkenberg in the race it would have been a different story, I was much faster than the car in front of me on the soft tires, but I couldn’t use them.