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5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon hopes h♚is 2025 F1 driv🥃e can be announced soon - but stopped short of clarifying where he will go.

Alpine have confirmed that Ocon will exit the team at the end of th💜is year, when his contract expirꩵes.

But he revealed ah🔜ead of this weekend’s F1 Austrian Grand Prix that talks for his next step are at an advanced stage.

“We 🍃are into deep conversations at the moment,” Ocon said.

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

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

Teams with a vacancy in their 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2025 F1 driver line-up are Williams, Haas, RB and Sauber.

O💟con has lost an F1 race seat once before, in 2018 with Force India.

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

“But we have the experience of that.”

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

“Yeജah for sure, and at no cost want to live that again for sure,” h♏e 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 hopefully.

“Yes, there are many options, but I will not comment on a prio💃rity.”

Ocon joins Carlos Sainz, Guanyu Zhou, Daniel Ricciardo and Valtteri Bottas among others as drivers with uncertain F1 💯futures.

They are all scrambling for the sa🐭me limited seats with the assumption that Sainz -ﷺ a grand prix winner last year and also this season - has the pick of the bunch.

Ocon rea🧸cted: I think it’s never been straightforward, the market, always been very strang🅠e.

“Always been reasons, not on꧒ly on performance🧜 side, there’s been a lot of things going on.

“I don’t think it’s my♔ favourite area of taꦯlking, I prefer to race on track, but it is a big things for us.

“It’s always been a very silly thing in Formula 1, th▨ese driver market topics.

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

This year at ꦯthe Monaco Grand Prix, Ocon and teammate Pierre Gasly clashed to the annoyance of the꧂ir employers.

Shortly after, Alpine confirmed they would not extend Ocon’s exp🍎iring 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 strugꦺgled at the start of this season, but who finished ninth and 10th last weekend in Barcelona.

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