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Time of India
18 hours ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Haas driver Esteban Ocon says it's frustrating in his place: 'When I look back on all the other drivers of my generation…'
Image credit: Esteban Ocon/Instagram Esteban Ocon moved from Alpine to Haas this season but is yet to secure a podium for his new team. It seems the Formula 1 driver is now getting a bit impatient and restless while feeling the absence of a race-winning car. He is from the generation of Max Verstappen, who is already the reigning number one champion and, this year too, is aiming for a championship win with two victories in his kitty already. This is making Ocon even more frustrated. Esteban Ocon on his desire to have a race-winning car Sharing his feelings on falling short of what's needed for a race win or at least a shot at the podium, Esteban Ocon told in an interview, "It is frustrating, yes, when I look back on all the other drivers of my generation, they've all had a shot at a race-winning car at one point.' 'I'm probably the only one who's never really had the chance to drive one of these cars, but I believe with the right work ethic, how much I put into questioning myself, what I can do better. The amount of work I put in, between the factory, the simulator, with the engineers, and doing a good job on track, it will eventually come at one point,' he added. The Haas driver is still waiting for a race-winning car like Ferrari while currently standing in 10th position in the 2025 Formula 1 Driver Standings with 20 points. Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Pinga-Pinga e HBP? Tome isso 1x ao dia se tem mais de 40 anos Portal Saúde do Homem Clique aqui Undo "I believe it will come, otherwise, I wouldn't be here trying so hard. It is good to be here fighting in the midfield, but my aim is to be fighting for wins, poles, and championships in the future, or championships at least once. But at the moment, it is not where we are, and we need to be doing the best to score points every race if we can," he said. Also Read: Lewis Hamilton is the Formula 1 driver with the most wins – here's the full list During his time with Alpine, Esteban Ocon won the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix. He took the third spot on the podium at the Monaco Grand Prix in 2023 and the second spot at the 2024 Sao Paulo Grand Prix. This year, he is yet to score a podium with Haas.
The Star
24-05-2025
- Automotive
- The Star
Motor racing-Verstappen a 'pipe dream' until Aston build a better car, says Newey
Formula One F1 - Sao Paulo Grand Prix - Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, Sao Paulo, Brazil - November 3, 2024 Red Bull's Max Verstappen celebrates winning the Sao Paulo Grand Prix REUTERS/Carla Carniel/File Photo MONACO (Reuters) - Aston Martin's chances of signing Max Verstappen will be a 'pipe dream' until they have a car good enough for Red Bull's four-times world champion, according to the team's design great Adrian Newey. Newey, whose cars have won multiple Formula One championships for three teams, joined Aston from Red Bull in March with speculation Verstappen might eventually link up with him again. Verstappen has won two of seven races this season and is third overall behind McLaren's Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris while Aston Martin are seventh in the standings and far from the podium places. Double world champion Fernando Alonso, now 43, has yet to score. In Monaco to attend a race for the first time since his move, Newey was asked the inevitable questions about Verstappen's future. "Max is clearly a phenomenal talent, and he's a supreme competitor and part of that means that Max likes to break things down to a simple common equation," he told reporters. "And that is, in this particular case, choosing the team that he believes will deliver the fastest car. So if we're to ever attract Max, the first thing we have to do is make a fast car. "It's a pipe dream about anything else from there." The Briton said it had been easy to settle into his new surroundings and, while focused on next year's car, had spent time assessing how the team worked and the strengths and weaknesses. He singled out the driver-in-the-loop simulator as requiring a lot of work, while the new wind tunnel was arguably the best in Formula One. "It (the simulator) is not correlating (to the track) at all at the moment, which is a fundamental research tool and not having that is a limitation," added Newey, who said fixing the simulator would probably take two years. Newey said Aston Martin, whose state-of-the-art Silverstone factory is on the old Jordan team site, had good people but needed them to settle down and work better together after a period of expansion. The designer said the 2026 rule change, the start of a new era for Formula One, offered "a reasonable amount of flexibility" and expected a range of different solutions. He said he was working at the factory "pretty much full-on". "My wife, she kind of says I go into a design trance," he explained. "When I get into this sort of period of intense concentration, I tend to not see left and right, all my processing power is going into the one area which is trying to design a fast racing car." (Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Toby Davis)
