The Frenchman was granted Alpine's new floor upgrade initially pencilled in for Miami, as one undertray construction was fast-tracked in time for the Chinese Grand Prix.
This new floor features changes to the diffuser, heavily revised front fences, and a new floor edge wing that includes a slot towards the rear.
Although these changes should yield an uptick in performance, Ocon stated that the overall set-up of his A524 had missed the mark to break into SQ2 during sprint qualifying - and suggested that a plethora of tweaks needed to be made once parc ferme opens again ahead of qualifying proper.
"I feel like we didn't maximise the potential of the car today, unfortunately, that's probably the first time this year that this is the case," Ocon lamented.
"I think there was probably more in it today. And, with only one [practice] session, unfortunately we didn't put everything together.
"Some performance left on the side, so it's a good thing that parc ferme opens again so we can change for next qualifying.
"We'll try and race tomorrow like this early in the morning and then, after that, try with a different set-up in the car and see what we get.
"We'll change quite a lot of things - until we try that, we are not going to know exactly that this is the right thing to do, but it might be worth a try."
Source: Autosport