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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Docs: Man takes Xanax, beats woman with pistol at Horizon residence
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A man who was charged with kidnapping and assaulting a woman last Thursday, May 8, after holding her against her will at his Horizon residence had allegedly taken Xanax before the incident, according to court documents obtained by KTSM. Justin Charles Ocon, 26, was arrested and charged with assault/impeding breath/circulation, interference with emergency request for assistance, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and kidnapping after he beat a woman with a pistol and choked her causing her to lose consciousness at his residence in Horizon while holding her against her will, according to court documents. Court documents state that on Thursday night, May 8, Ocon was at his residence with a woman where they began arguing. The argument stemmed from Ocon becoming jealous after seeing a message from another male on the victim's phone. The victim later told police that Ocon had taken Xanax earlier that evening, according to court documents. The victim told police that during the argument, she tried to leave the residence by approaching the front door. Court documents state that Ocon then grabbed the victim by her hair and pulled her back into the house and forced her into his bedroom. Once the victim was inside Ocon's bedroom, he told the victim, 'You shouldn't have messed with me,' while retrieving a pistol from the top of his closet. Ocon then hit the victim in the head and face with the butt of the pistol and Ocon then placed his hands around the victim's neck and choked her, according to court documents. The victim later told police that she was afraid and felt things would get worse if she fought back, and she also recalled not being able to breathe and losing consciousness while Ocon was choking her, according to court documents. The victim told police that she was later woken up by Ocon slapping her and hitting her in the face. Court documents state the victim told police that Ocon repeatedly slapped her while questioning her because he did not believe her answers. The victim told police that Ocon took her phone away to keep her from calling anyone for help, and he would not let the victim leave because he believed she was going to call the police, according to court documents. The victim told police that Ocon watched her the entire night until they both fell asleep. The victim says she was able to escape the next morning after Ocon left for work, according to court documents. The victim then called her mother for help from a nearby store, and police were dispatched to the area. Police were then able to obtain several warrants regarding the reported assault, where Ocon was arrested and booked into the El Paso County Detention Facility under a total bond of $180,000. Horizon Police say Ocon was hiding in an apartment at the 12500 block of Rojas in East El Paso at the time of his arrest. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Time of India
13-05-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Esteban Ocon fondly remembers the first time he met Haas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu
Image Via Getty Images Haas driver Esteban Ocon has been fondly reflecting on the first time he met his current team principal, Ayao Komatsu , whom he had once raced alongside and who he called the most competitive guy he had ever met. Ocon, fondly nicknamed 'Estie Bestie', agreed to join Haas last summer on a multi-year contract, thus reuniting him with Komatsu , whom he had once raced side by side on a 12-hour endurance race with F1 teams taking part. Esteban Ocon raced alongside Ayao Komatsu in an endurance race The Moneygram Haas F1 team has put on a commendable performance so far in the 2025 season, with experienced driver Esteban Ocon and talented rookie Ollie Bearman at the helm of the operation. The teammates stare at an eclectic bond, with the young Ollie putting rainbow sprinkles on Ocon's protein shakes, which delights the older driver, a welcome change to former teammate Fernando Alonso pouring salt in the same. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like AI guru Andrew Ng recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Around in 2025 Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo The tallest duo in the entire grid has been expertly guided by team principal Ayao Komatsu, who assumed the role after replacing a mass favorite, Guenther Steiner , back in January 2024. The Japanese engineer has steered the team effectively since his competitive nature was fondly confirmed by Ocon on a Beyond the Grid podcast. 'I went there with him and there was like a 12-hour endurance race with F1 teams just taking part,' Ocon recalled. 'Ayao was there and racing, and I was part of the Lotus team . That was the first time we met. We were team mates. I was probably 35 kilos at the time, so I was very fast in the go-kart. I remember he was the only one who came to me and said: 'Esteban, how do you take this corner? Do you take a little bit the kerb to prepare the next one?' 'And that will stick forever because I was much quicker than everyone in that corner, and no one really asked me how they could do it. But he was the one coming and asking me to try and gain something out of it,' Ocon said. Also Read: Hours After F1 Trailer Release, Lewis Hamilton Unfollows All On Instagram But Treats Fans With Shirtless Gym Photos On being asked if Komatsu has changed much since, Ocon responded that he might be 'the most competitive guy' he has ever met. 'I think we share that together', Ocon said, all smiles.
USA Today
04-05-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
First female F1 race engineer Laura Mueller on track with Haas' Esteban Ocon at Miami GP
First female F1 race engineer Laura Mueller on track with Haas' Esteban Ocon at Miami GP Show Caption Hide Caption F1 sees value in Miami Grand Prix, extends contract until 2041 Safid Deen explains the value Formula One sees in the Miami Grand Prix and how they hope this race will help grow the sports fanbase in America. One job on the Formula One grid may be more exclusive than being a driver. Laura Mueller is part of that club. Working for the Haas F1 team, Mueller is F1's first female race engineer. There are 20 race engineers on the grid, one for each driver. They are the chief link between the driver and team, working on track through radio communication and away from it while preparing for the next race. They commonly remain at their positions longer than an F1 driver stays in their seat. Mueller was elevated to the position this season and is paired with Haas newcomer Esteban Ocon. Mueller had previously worked as a performance engineer at Haas, while Ocon, a Hungarian Grand Prix winner in 2021, joined the American team after five seasons with the Alpine F1 team. 'She's a pretty determined character,' Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu told in January. 'And then she's very hardworking. Her work ethic is really, really good. ... Esteban is a pretty determined character as well. So that side, I think the driving force, I think that personality matches pretty well." Entering the 2025 F1 Miami Grand Prix, Ocon was ninth in the drivers' standings with 14 points through five races. Haas ranked sixth among F1 teams with 20 points, just five short of Williams in fifth, a position Haas will chase throughout the season as the best-of-the-rest prize behind stalwarts McLaren, Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull. Haas has been the ultimate underdog outfit since joining the grid in 2016. It finished fifth that season but has only managed to equal that result once (2018). The lone American team until Cadillac joins the grid next season, Haas has yet to win a race or secure a single podium finish in F1. Mueller is tasked with helping the downtrodden team make waves in the midfield this season. In addition to Williams, Haas will need to battle with Alpine, Racing Bulls, Sauber and Aston Martin for points in the constructors' standings. For Haas, it takes a strong work ethic to find those extra margins over their rivals, many of whom have considerably larger resources. 'It's been great to work with Laura,' Ocon said during a recent appearance on F1's Beyond the Grid podcast. 'She's really a great engineer. She's been having a lot of experience in a lot of different categories. She's done DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters), I've done DTM, so we have that point in common. But she did a lot of different categories, and her trajectory is very impressive. 'She's awesome to work with. The amount of hours she puts in is very, very impressive. She doesn't count hours.' Ocon recalled one particularly demanding weekend in Japan when the French driver struggled to find consistent performance. 'I remember in Suzuka, we had a difficult one, but we were still having meetings and debriefs because it was not the way we wanted to have the performance, and she didn't stand up to take a sandwich or drink for probably the whole day. 'She was like, 'Esteban, I will probably go and take food now because it's 7:30 or 8 in the evening.' And I'm like, 'You didn't eat yet?' And she's like, 'No'' because she didn't want to because she was flat-out with work.' Uphill battles come with the territory at Haas. For Komatsu, the difference is having the right people scaling those mountains. 'We don't care (about) nationality, gender – it really doesn't matter because what matters is work," Komatsu said when Mueller was promoted. "How you can fit into the team, how you can maximise the performance. I believe it is the right choice.'
Hamilton Spectator
03-05-2025
- Automotive
- Hamilton Spectator
Much improved Haas Racing ready for challenge at Miami Grand Prix, its first home race of season
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Oliver Bearman considers the Miami Grand Prix a highlight on the F1 calendar for many reasons: The sunny South Florida weather. The fanfare. It's the first of three United States races for his American-led Haas Formula 1 team. But Bearman, Haas' 19-year-old rookie who will be racing at the Miami International Autodrome for the first time on Sunday, acknowledged that it will be a challenge for his team. 'I expect a difficult weekend,' Bearman said, 'considering the circumstances, particularly that I haven't been here and it's a Sprint weekend. But I also had that in Brazil last year. I also had that in China this year. And I wouldn't say those are particularly simple shots either. I don't really know how it's going to go, but I expect that if I have a good feeling with the car, I hope to be able to get as much as I can out of it.' The Miami Grand Prix is the first opportunity of the season for Haas — the only American-owned team in F1 — to compete in front of its home fans, but the weekend got off to an uneven start. Bearman, in his first ever action at the track, caused an early end to Friday's practice with a crash, and his teammate, Esteban Ocon, was given a warning for impeding McLaren's Lando Norris during the session. In Saturday's Sprint race in Miami, Bearman started at the back of the grid but zipped through the field for what would have been an eighth-place finish and a point for Haas, but he was hit with a five-second penalty after the race for an unsafe release and stripped of the point. That was followed by a disappointing showing in qualifying later that evening, where the British driver again finished last in the field. 'I don't know (what happened),' Bearman said afterward. 'Just didn't have the feeling. Too messy of a lap. ... It was a messy session overall.' Still, Haas will have a good chance at scoring points on Sunday. Ocon qualified ninth in his first top-10 qualifier since joining Haas this season. He said it was his best qualifying session of the year, but the team still has work to do after Bearman's surprising outing. 'This is what we need to work on, our consistency,' Ocon said. 'The window of our car is really, really small. And even though you try and put the cars together in the same setup, we still see big differences in those cars. We need to work on that.' Mostly inconsistent since its debut season in 2016, Haas improved its on-track performance the past year under Ayao Komatsu, who replaced longtime team principal Guenther Steiner for a change of direction after several dismal seasons. Haas finished seventh in the constructor standings in 2024 with 58 points, its best result since finishing fifth with 98 points behind drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen in 2018, and up from a last-place finish in 2023. Haas still has never won an F1 race or scored a podium finish, but there is excitement about its trajectory behind the new lineup of Bearman, the prodigy who raced as a substitute for Ferrari last year before joining Haas as a fulltime driver, and Ocon, winner of the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix with Alpine and the only Grand Prix winner to race for Haas. 'Esteban and Ollie have been instrumental in providing direction and working with the team every day,' Komatsu said, 'not to mention some of the incredible race drives they've produced already.' In a busy start to the 2025 season with five races in six weeks, Haas has placed in the top eight in three races and is currently sixth in standings with 20 points. Bearman has accounted for 13 points. He and Ocon jointly accumulated 14 points at the Chinese Grand Prix in late March, when disqualifications boosted Ocon from his seventh-place finish to fifth and Bearman from 10th to eighth. Bearman has already established himself as a solid points scorer for Haas as the team continues its climb. His season debut at the Australian Grand Prix was spoiled by a crash, but the British driver grabbed points in three straight races after that. 'He's a super quick driver,' Ocon said of his teammate. 'Super talented, very professional, very detailed on the car set up. I think that's straight away the thing I saw (at first). Technically, he's above any rookies that I've seen in the past. He's much more prepared than I was when I arrived in F1.' Ocon has taken points finishes in all three of his races in Miami, with his best coming at the inaugural race in 2022 when finished eighth. Sunday will be his first Miami race with Haas. ___ AP auto racing:
Winnipeg Free Press
03-05-2025
- Automotive
- Winnipeg Free Press
Much improved Haas Racing ready for challenge at Miami Grand Prix, its first home race of season
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Oliver Bearman considers the Miami Grand Prix a highlight on the F1 calendar for many reasons: The sunny South Florida weather. The fanfare. It's the first of three United States races for his American-led Haas Formula 1 team. But Bearman, Haas' 19-year-old rookie who will be racing at the Miami International Autodrome for the first time on Sunday, acknowledged that it will be a challenge for his team. 'I expect a difficult weekend,' Bearman said, 'considering the circumstances, particularly that I haven't been here and it's a Sprint weekend. But I also had that in Brazil last year. I also had that in China this year. And I wouldn't say those are particularly simple shots either. I don't really know how it's going to go, but I expect that if I have a good feeling with the car, I hope to be able to get as much as I can out of it.' The Miami Grand Prix is the first opportunity of the season for Haas — the only American-owned team in F1 — to compete in front of its home fans, but the weekend got off to an uneven start. Bearman, in his first ever action at the track, caused an early end to Friday's practice with a crash, and his teammate, Esteban Ocon, was given a warning for impeding McLaren's Lando Norris during the session. In Saturday's Sprint race in Miami, Bearman started at the back of the grid but zipped through the field for what would have been an eighth-place finish and a point for Haas, but he was hit with a five-second penalty after the race for an unsafe release and stripped of the point. That was followed by a disappointing showing in qualifying later that evening, where the British driver again finished last in the field. 'I don't know (what happened),' Bearman said afterward. 'Just didn't have the feeling. Too messy of a lap. … It was a messy session overall.' Still, Haas will have a good chance at scoring points on Sunday. Ocon qualified ninth in his first top-10 qualifier since joining Haas this season. He said it was his best qualifying session of the year, but the team still has work to do after Bearman's surprising outing. 'This is what we need to work on, our consistency,' Ocon said. 'The window of our car is really, really small. And even though you try and put the cars together in the same setup, we still see big differences in those cars. We need to work on that.' Mostly inconsistent since its debut season in 2016, Haas improved its on-track performance the past year under Ayao Komatsu, who replaced longtime team principal Guenther Steiner for a change of direction after several dismal seasons. Haas finished seventh in the constructor standings in 2024 with 58 points, its best result since finishing fifth with 98 points behind drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen in 2018, and up from a last-place finish in 2023. Haas still has never won an F1 race or scored a podium finish, but there is excitement about its trajectory behind the new lineup of Bearman, the prodigy who raced as a substitute for Ferrari last year before joining Haas as a fulltime driver, and Ocon, winner of the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix with Alpine and the only Grand Prix winner to race for Haas. 'Esteban and Ollie have been instrumental in providing direction and working with the team every day,' Komatsu said, 'not to mention some of the incredible race drives they've produced already.' In a busy start to the 2025 season with five races in six weeks, Haas has placed in the top eight in three races and is currently sixth in standings with 20 points. Bearman has accounted for 13 points. He and Ocon jointly accumulated 14 points at the Chinese Grand Prix in late March, when disqualifications boosted Ocon from his seventh-place finish to fifth and Bearman from 10th to eighth. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Bearman has already established himself as a solid points scorer for Haas as the team continues its climb. His season debut at the Australian Grand Prix was spoiled by a crash, but the British driver grabbed points in three straight races after that. 'He's a super quick driver,' Ocon said of his teammate. 'Super talented, very professional, very detailed on the car set up. I think that's straight away the thing I saw (at first). Technically, he's above any rookies that I've seen in the past. He's much more prepared than I was when I arrived in F1.' Ocon has taken points finishes in all three of his races in Miami, with his best coming at the inaugural race in 2022 when finished eighth. Sunday will be his first Miami race with Haas. ___ AP auto racing:
