Ollie Bearman ‘very proud’ of Haas as team mark 200th race while Esteban Ocon hopes milestone will bring ‘luck’ in Canada

Whereas he wouldn’t make his personal F1 debut till later in 2016 for the Manor crew, Ocon may recall Haas’ first-ever race and the second that Grosjean claimed sixth for the squad.

“I keep in mind Romain’s radio message saying, ‘Welcome to Formulation 1, guys,’” Ocon defined throughout media day in Montreal. “That [P6] was fairly spectacular I’d say. Positively a pleasant first race and we’re sporting these colors this weekend, the total go well with, the livery.

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“We now have crew members’ [names] on the entrance wing as effectively written down, and it is a good little throwback and I hope that it will carry us luck this weekend.”

Whereas the milestone will make this weekend’s occasion a “particular race” for Haas, Ocon additionally admitted that the crew have to work exhausting as a way to sustain with their rivals.

“I feel the great factor is that, once we have been in a position to have respectable tempo, we have managed to take alternatives and get the end result and rating some respectable factors, like [in] Monaco,” the Frenchman mentioned of the latest triple header sequence.