The Alpine driver was hit by three penalties at the🐓 F1 Bahrain Grand Prix, a nightmare outing to kickstar🐷t his 2023.

Pastor Maldonado previously held th𝔉e all-time record after being penalised by stewards three times in a single race at the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix.

What were Ocon’s penalties for?

• An inaccurate start position

Ocon was handed a five-second penalty because his right tyre was outside ꦚof the grid box for the race start.

• Failing to serve the first penalty properly during a pitstop

His mechanics failed to accurately observe the original five-second penalty when Ocon pitted to serve his first peജnalty - they started after 4.6s. This earned an extra 10-second penaꦰlty.

"It was a timing issue," Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer said. "We have a system that counts down in the mechanics' ears to tell t🍷hem when they can start, 🥂and that was offset by four tenths of a second.

"The system started the countdown 0.4 seconds early. I've got to go see𒅌 why th🥀at happened.”

• Speeding in the pitlane

Ocon broke the 80 km/h s�♍�peed limit by 0.1 km/h - incurring another five-second penalty.

"That's for the driver,” Szafnauer said. “He's got a pitlane speed limiter and when he believes he's out of the pitlane, he lifts off it and then of🔯f🦄 you go."

Ocon was reti෴red when the penalties caused him to drop to the back of the grid to save engine mileage.

Ocon later ref꧋lected: "We were too forwa💜rd on the grid spot - it was very clear. I don't want to go into details, but usually we are very good on all these operational things.

"What we've done to🌊day, we've done it the same way I've done the last five years, bu✱t today it has been different.

"We need to analyse, we need to see what happened, and comꦦe back stronger from it."

Szafnauer🐈 added: "Esteban being out of position at the start, he'll learn from that. 

"It's very, very rare for this team to make those types of operations mistakes, like starting early on w🎃orking on the car. I've never seen it happen here before.”