#31 · Haas
Esteban Ocon
Won the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix from P3 on the grid in a wild, weather-hit race for Alpine. Joined Haas for 2025 after seven seasons at Enstone.
1
Race wins
4
Podiums
0
Pole positions
0
Championships
Why he matters
Ocon’s Hungary 2021 win is one of the great underdog stories of the modern era — a strategy-and-restart-shaped victory in a midfield car. He is the modern French successor to the Prost/Panis lineage, though he has yet to deliver a championship-contending season. His move to Haas for 2025, after a difficult split with Pierre Gasly at Alpine, refreshed his career.
How he drives
Ocon is hard. He’ll lean on a teammate at Turn 1 of a race start and will not yield positions cheaply. That trait sometimes turns into incidents; he and Gasly were involved in multiple intra-team contacts during their Alpine years.
Watch for
- Race starts — Ocon is one of the most aggressive openers on the grid.
- His battles with younger teammate Oliver Bearman — Bearman is fast, Ocon is the physical bench mark.
- Wet weather — Ocon is consistently a top-five wet-condition driver.