‘This is not how I wanted things to end’ – Esteban Ocon shares emotional farewell to Alpine after ‘especially difficult’ season

In opposition to a lightweight gray background, Ocon wrote: “I want to at first thank the mechanics and engineers throughout all features on the monitor, Enstone, and Viry-Chatillon who’ve raced alongside me these final 5 seasons. Now we have shared a lot collectively, and I’m proud to name a lot of you my associates.

“I depart Alpine/Renault with nice reminiscences and the pleasure of getting been the motive force who introduced the crew’s greatest outcomes since its return to the game, climbing the highest two steps of the rostrum in Bahrain, Hungary, and Brazil. It was additionally an honour to play an element in ending P4 within the Constructors’ Championship in 2022.

“I understand how a lot all of these moments meant for everyone and feeling that sense of accomplishment and pleasure alongside the crew is what I’m taking away with me.”

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Ocon first joined the crew when it raced below the Renault identify in 2020 – they offered him with a route again into Formulation 1 after he was compelled to take a sabbatical as Mercedes’ reserve driver the 12 months prior.