BWT Alpine F1 Staff and Esteban Ocon have agreed collectively to half methods on the finish of the 2024 FIA Components 1 World Championship season, the conclusion of the Frenchman’s contract with the workforce.
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It brings to a detailed a five-year collaboration between the workforce and Esteban, throughout which Alpine and Esteban recorded their first Grand Prix victory on the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, a landmark second for the model, the workforce, and Esteban himself.
Esteban recorded two additional podiums throughout his 5 years, reaching second place on the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, his first go to to the podium in Components 1, and third place on the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix. He achieved a finest end of eighth within the 2022 Drivers’ Championship, contributing to the workforce’s fourth-place end within the Constructors’ Championship that 12 months.
The workforce seems ahead to persevering with its arduous work with Esteban for the rest of the 2024 season and desires him the perfect in his future endeavours.
The workforce’s 2025 driver line-up can be introduced sooner or later.
Esteban Ocon:
It’s been a big interval of my life to be racing for this workforce in Components 1. Whereas I’ve been right here for 5 years as a full-time racing driver, my skilled profession began at Enstone once I was a young person, so it is going to all the time be a particular place. Now we have had some nice and difficult moments collectively, and I’m certainly grateful to everybody within the workforce for these memorable instances. I’ll announce my thrilling plans very quickly, however within the meantime, I give attention to delivering on monitor for this workforce and having a profitable the rest of the season.
Bruno Famin, Staff Principal:
First, we thank Esteban for his dedication to the workforce over the previous 5 years. Throughout his time, we now have celebrated some implausible moments collectively, the perfect of which got here on the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix with a memorable race win. These achievements weren’t simply ours but additionally a testomony to the unwavering help of our followers and the racing neighborhood, for which we’re deeply grateful. We nonetheless have 16 races to finish in 2024, along with a transparent goal: to proceed to work tirelessly as a workforce to push for the perfect on-track outcomes. We want Esteban the perfect for the subsequent chapter of his driving profession when that second comes.
