Esteban Ocon

French racing driver

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2025 In the Bahrain Grand Prix, Ocon crashed out of qualifying and started fourteenth, but climbed to eighth position using an alternate strategy.
2025 At the season-opening race, Haas struggled with performance.
2025 Ocon finished eighteenth in the Japanese Grand Prix, racing on an alternate strategy.
2025 Ocon achieved his first points finish with Haas at an unspecified race, finishing fifth after disqualifications for both Ferrari drivers in the VF-25 car.
2025 Esteban Ocon joined Haas Formula One team on a multi-year contract, partnering with rookie driver Oliver Bearman.
2025 Joined MoneyGram Haas F1 Team for the Formula One season.
2025 Confirmed to join MoneyGram Haas F1 Team for the 2025 Formula One season.
2024 Moved from Alpine to Haas, partnering with Oliver Bearman for the Formula One season.
2024 Ocon qualified eleventh at the race but retired after colliding with Gasly on track, for which he apologized and claimed responsibility.
2024 In 2024, during his final season at Alpine, Ocon achieved his maiden fastest lap in the United States and also secured a fourth career podium at the rain-affected Qatar Grand Prix.
2024 Esteban Ocon continued alongside Pierre Gasly at Alpine for the 2024 season, where he noted during pre-season testing that the team were 'on the back foot'.
2024 Ocon did not score points for the next six races, but Alpine achieved its first podium of the year at the rain-affected Sao Paulo Grand Prix, where Ocon finished second, having briefly led the race.
2024 Ocon expressed his dissatisfaction with how his tenure at Alpine ended, stating on Instagram that 'this is not how I wanted things to end.'
2024 Ocon claimed the team's first points of the 2024 season at the race in which he improved from thirteenth on the grid to finish tenth.
2024 Ocon scored points at both the Spanish and Belgian Grands Prix.
2024 During the race, Alpine imposed team orders that forced Ocon to give up P9 to Gasly, who was in a better position to attack Daniel Ricciardo.
2024 Ocon qualified nineteenth for the season-opening race, while Gasly qualified twentieth, which Gasly described as 'not a surprise'.
2024 Ocon reached the second qualifying session of a Grand Prix for the first time at the third race of the season, where he finished sixteenth.
2024 Esteban Ocon left Alpine after the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix and is set to join Haas.
August 2024 Haas announced that Esteban Ocon would join their team for the 2025 season and beyond, partnering British rookie Oliver Bearman.
July 2024 Achieved his first points finish with Haas at the Belgian Grand Prix, finishing fifth after disqualifications for both Ferrari drivers.
2023 He earned more points at the Spanish and Canadian Grands Prix, and in the rain-affected sprint race held off Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris.
2023 At the fifth race, Ocon started third after Charles Leclerc received a penalty. He held off Carlos Sainz Jr. and earned his third career podium, also winning the Driver Of The Day award.
2023 He retired from the tenth race 'for safety reasons' due to a steering issue and later retired from sixth place at the eleventh race due to a gearbox problem.
2023 Ocon concluded the season twelfth in the World Drivers' Championship with 58 points, finishing one place and four points behind teammate Gasly.
2023 In the main race of the sixth round, Ocon finished outside the points after receiving a penalty for an unsafe pit box release and was later given additional penalties for track limits violations, totaling 30 seconds.
2023 Ocon crashed in qualifying at the fourth race. Alpine made changes to his car, causing him to start both the sprint race and the main race from the pit lane.
2023 Ocon started sixteenth at the inaugural sprint race, avoided collisions to improve to eighth on the first lap, and climbed to fourth by the end of the race.
2023 At the season-opening race, Ocon received penalties for being out of position on the grid, failing to serve the penalty correctly, and for speeding in the pit lane. He eventually retired from the race due to mechanical issues.
2023 Ocon gained a new teammate in former karting rival Pierre Gasly as Alonso departed to Aston Martin. Prior to the start of the season, he was impacted by a lung virus.
2023 Ocon achieved his third podium finish at the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix.
2023 He experienced consecutive retirements due to a hydraulics leak at the seventh race and a first-lap crash at the eighth race.
2023 His seventh retirement of the season occurred at the thirteenth race after a collision with Oscar Piastri.
2023 Ocon finished the twelfth race in seventh place despite extreme heat causing him to vomit into his helmet.
2023 Ocon competed in the Formula One season with the BWT Alpine F1 Team, finishing 12th in the drivers' standings after 22 races.
2023 During the final restart of the third race, Ocon was involved in a heavy collision with teammate Gasly, who apologized for his role in the incident.
2023 Ocon started sixth and scored his first points of the season at the second race, finishing eighth.
2023 Esteban Ocon began a relationship with model and social media influencer Flavy Barla after splitting with his previous girlfriend earlier in the year.
2023 Ocon improved from fourteenth on the grid to score points in eighth place at the ninth race.
July 2023 Esteban Ocon set a new record for the most (driving) penalties in one race, receiving five penalties at the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix.
2022 Became the first teammate to outscore Fernando Alonso in the championship since Jenson Button.
2022 Ocon ended the 2022 season eighth in the drivers' championship, equalling his best result previously achieved in 2017 with a total of 92 points.
October 2022 Ocon was eliminated in the first qualifying session and started eighteenth at the United States Grand Prix, finishing the race in eleventh place.
July 2022 Ocon finished ninth at the British Grand Prix but was demoted to twelfth due to a penalty for colliding with Lewis Hamilton.
July 2022 At the Austrian Grand Prix, Ocon secured his best result of the season, finishing fourth while holding off Lewis Hamilton.
May 2022 Ocon recovered from starting last at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix due to a crash in practice to finish ninth, later promoted to eighth when Alonso received a penalty.
May 2022 At the Spanish Grand Prix, Ocon qualified twelfth and finished seventh, managing to hold off Lando Norris.
April 2022 At the Australian Grand Prix, Ocon had a close battle with his teammate Fernando Alonso, where he was ordered by the team to hold his position.
March 2022 Ocon qualified fifth and finished sixth at the second race of the season.
March 2022 Esteban Ocon finished seventh at the season-opening race despite receiving a penalty for colliding with Mick Schumacher.

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