168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon has shed light on his intense rivalry with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen during karting.

Ocon and Verstappen were fierce rival🔯s through the various junior categories, ultimately going head-to-head for the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 20ꦇ14.

The pair have had contrasting fortunes in F1 with Verstappen winning three titles and oveꦬr 50 races, while Ocon has just one win to his name.

Speaking on the High Performance podcast, Ocon shed light on his rivalry with Verstappen and how he wasn’t🃏 scared of him, or his father, Jos.

"Everybody was a little bit scared of Jos and Ma❀x at the time because Jos was driving in F1 before and is known for how fierce and scary he can be, talking to other young kids at the go-kart tracks," Ocon said.

“But me and my dad were never scared because we just wanted to race. We raced hard, w📖e raced really hard and at times, we crossed lines in certain races.

"Sometimes we didn't finish where we were supposed to because of how hard the fights were but that made me lear﷽n a lot on how to racꦅe and I hope it made him learn a good amount.

“We met again 🌠in F3 later, from karting in 2011, a three-year break and then we met in F3, racing fo🍃r the title.

“There it was hard ♉racing as well. I have always enjoyed racing with Max. Tough racing is always cool to me, side-by-side, being very close - that is what racing is all about and there is nothing else that makes me that excited.”

Ocon beat Verstappen to the F3 title in 2024 🦄- but it was the Dutchman who made it into F1 first with Toro🧸 Rosso.

The Frenchman had to wait until the middle of 2016 to make his debut with the backmarker team, Ma✱nor.

Ocon conceded he was very frustrated by the fact Verstap꧑pen made it into F1 first.

"So I got into the Mercedes Junior Programme. From there on, it was back on route but from Max not winning the title and then finishing third and then going into F1 and then me not even having an option to continue racing, that was tough to😼 swallow. I was very pissed off in those times. That was very difficult," he added.

"To me, it was not fair..⛦. not saying that I would go to F1 because I always believed that my time would come if I put hard work in, got the results.

"But in those moments, I was༒n't sure that I was going ♔to even continue racing and, for me, that wasn't fair.

"I am glad all those guys saw itꦛ wasn't fair and found solutions for me to continue."