Ocon in numbers
490 official points · best championship finish: 8th in 2017
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0.5% of races
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5.9% of races with Renault
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1.1% of races with Alpine
3.4% of races with Alpine
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Esteban Ocon lost his seat in 2019 and spent a full year as Mercedes reserve driver, watching races from the pit wall. Very few come back from that. He returned with Renault in 2020 and the following year won the Hungarian Grand Prix.
That race sums up what he does well. A first-lap pile-up took out half the grid, he led away from a chaotic restart and held off Sebastian Vettel for seventy laps with the German glued to his rear wing, without a mistake all day. It is his only win in more than 190 races, and it came where those races are decided: in not making the error everyone else did.
His career is built on hard intra-team duels, with Sergio Pérez first and Fernando Alonso later, and on a reputation as an awkward team-mate he has never much disputed. His best championship was eighth in 2022. Since 2025 he has raced for Haas, once again at a team where the job is squeezing out what there is.
Ver en españolRating by season
- First season
- 74 2017
- Peak
- 74 2017
- 2026
- 71 Haas
9 seasons in the database, from 2017 to 2026. Our own rating, from 50 to 99.
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Best year
2022
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His team-mates
6 team-mates across 10 seasons. When both finished the race, Ocon was ahead in 68 of 147; on the grid he started ahead in 82 of 195.
| Year | Team-mate | In the race | On the grid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Pascal WehrleinManor Marussia · 9 races | 3-3 | 2-7 |
| 2017 | Sergio PérezForce India · 20 races | 6-11 | 7-13 |
| 2018 | Sergio PérezForce India · 21 races | 9-5 | 15-6 |
| 2020 | Daniel RicciardoRenault · 17 races | 3-9 | 2-15 |
| 2021 | Fernando AlonsoAlpine F1 Team · 22 races | 9-9 | 11-11 |
| 2022 | Fernando AlonsoAlpine F1 Team · 22 races | 7-8 | 9-12 |
| 2023 | Pierre GaslyAlpine F1 Team · 22 races | 10-5 | 8-14 |
| 2024 | Pierre GaslyAlpine F1 Team · 23 races | 9-8 | 12-10 |
| 2025 | Oliver BearmanHaas F1 Team · 24 races | 9-11 | 11-13 |
| 2026 | Oliver BearmanHaas F1 Team · 17 races | 3-10 | 5-12 |
The first number is always Ocon's. A team-mate is whoever started the same race for the same team. "In the race" only counts races both finished, because a retirement says nothing about who was quicker. "On the grid" is the starting position, with penalties already applied.
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