Esteban Ocon

Esteban José JeanPierre OconKhelfane born 17 September 1996 is a French racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Haas Graduating from karting to junior formulae in 2012 Ocon won his first championship at the 2014 FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Prema Racing ahead of Tom Blomqvist and eventual threetime World Champion Max Verstappen He then won the 2015 GP3 Series with ART Grand Prix A member of the Mercedes Junior Team from 2015 to 2019 Ocon made his Formula One debut at the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix with Manor replacing Rio Haryanto for the remainder of the 2016 season He moved to Force Indiawho later became Racing Pointin 2017 partnering Sergio Pérez Ocon left Racing Point at the end of 2018 and became a reserve driver for Mercedes in 2019 He signed for Renault in 2020 taking his maiden career podium at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix Ocon then partnered Fernando Alonso at the rebranded Alpine team in 2021 taking his maiden race win at the Hungarian Grand Prix After a podiumless 2022 season during which he became the first teammate to outscore Alonso in the championship since Jenson Button in 2015 Ocon scored his third podium at the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix As of the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Ocon has achieved one race win and three podiums in Formula One Ocon is set to leave Alpine at the end of the 2024 season to join Haas Esteban Ocon was born in Évreux Normandy to Sabrina Khelfane and Laurent Ocon a mechanic who owns a garage in Évreux His paternal family is originally from Málaga While competing in karting his parents decided to sell their family home which included his fathers garage to fund his karting career After selling the house they lived and travelled to races in a caravan Ocon also used as a motor home As of 2022 Ocon lives in Geneva Switzerland Besides his native French language Ocon also speaks English Spanish and Italian Ocon entered karting in 2006 when he finished eighth in the Minime class of the French Championship He won the championship in 2007 and continued his success by winning the Cadet class in 2008 ahead of Anthoine Hubert and Pierre Gasly He then spent three years racing in the KF3 category and competed in the Spanish Championship and Italian Open Masters He won the French KF3 title in 2010 and finished as runnerup in the WSK Euro Series in 2011 behind Max Verstappen At the age of 14 Ocon was signed by Gravity Sports management a sister company of Renault F1 team In 2012 Ocon made his debut in singleseaters taking part in the Eurocup Formula Renault 20 with Koiranen Motorsport He finished fourteenth with four pointscoring finishes including being on the podium at his home round at Circuit Paul Ricard He also contested a partial campaign in the Formula Renault 20 Alps with Koiranen finishing seventh with two podiums both of which came at the Red Bull Ring He remained in the series for 2013 switching to the ART Junior Team He recorded one pole position and won two races including at Circuit Paul Ricard finishing the season in third place behind Pierre Gasly and Oliver Rowland A partial campaign in the Northern European Cup produced a race win at the Hockenheimring and two further podiums Source Article Esteban Ocon from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30