Out-of-work Esteban Ocon update on “options” and “priority” for 2025 drive

"Hopefully it will be sorted soon and announced"

Esteban Ocon (FRA), Alpine F1 Team Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 11, Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg, Austria,
Esteban Ocon (FRA), Alpine F1 Team Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 11, Austrian Grand Prix,…

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon hopes his 2025 F1 drive can be announced ꦜsoon - but stopped short of clarifying where he will go.

Alpine ha🦹ve confirmed that Ocon will exit the team at the end of this year, when his contract expires.

But he revealed ahead of this weekend’s F1 Austrian Grand Prix that talks for his next step are at an advanced sℱtage.

“We are into deep conversatio✅ns at the moment,” Ocon 𝔉said.

“Discussions are going well, at the moment I’m confident with the future and hopefully it will be sorted soon a𒊎nd announced.

“Yeah I’m confident, but as you🔥 said, until it’s signed…”

Teams with a vacancy in their 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2025 F1 driver line-up are Williams, Haas, RB and Sauber.

Ocon has lꩲost an F1 race seat once before, in 2018 wiꦐth Force India.

“I was confident as well at the end of 2018 but f💯or different reasons it didn’t work out,” he said.

“But we have the experience of that.”

Ocon insists that being axed from Force India has given him 🍎a more proactive response to Alpine’s announcement that he wouldn’t continue with them into 2025.

“Yeah foꦯr sure, and at no cost want to live that again for sure,” he said.

“But as⛄ I said it’s going well at the moment, there’s a lot of deep discussions going well and it should be sorted soon hopefull🧸y.

“Yes, there are many options, but I will not comme💝nt on a priority.”

Ocon joins Carlos Sainz, Guanyu Zhou, Daniel Ricciardo and Valtteri Bottas among others as drivers with uncer꧟tain F1 f꧋utures.

They a🦹re all scrambling for the same limited seats with the assumption that Sainz - a🌠 grand prix winner last year and also this season - has the pick of the bunch.

Ocon reacted: I think it’s never been straightforward, the 𒅌market, always been 🅘very strange.

“Always been reasons, not only on💫 performance side, the﷽re’s been a lot of things going on.

“I don’t think it’s my favourite area of talking, I prefer🌄 to race on tr💦ack, but it is a big things for us.

“It’s 👍always been a very silly thing in Formula 1, these driver market topics.

“It is interesting when you get in there and the views of high end people on many different things, but in the eꦫnd it is still mostly on performance – not only – but mostly, so I still have hope on that.”

This year at the Monaco Grand Prix, Ocon and🏅 teammate Pierre Gasly clashed to the annoyance of their e✃mployers.

Shortly after, Alpin🅺e confirmed they would not extend Ocon’s expiring contract. Gasly has penned a new deal with the team.

Flavio Briatore is also a high-profile arrival in an advisory capacity to Alpine who badly struggled at the st♈art of this season,♏ but who finished ninth and 10th last weekend in Barcelona.

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