Esteban Ocon was a vocal critic of the track surface at the Miami Grand Prix, saying it was a “disaster” for wheel-to-wheel racing.

The track was newly laid ahead of the weekend, but the new asphalt was jet-washed at a high pressure to take an initial layer off the asphalt with the aim of providing good grip from the outset on Friday.

But the drivers soon found the going tough as a racing line emerged, finding it more difficult than usual to go off-line and maintain lap time.

The track was resurfaced in places ahead of the race as a result but Ocon, who had already criticised the FIA ‘ignoring’ a request to install a Tecpro barrier where he crashed in qualifying, did not have kind words to say about the asphalt underneath him either.