Fight in a meeting, dismissal and possible signing for Aston Martin: Esteban Ocon sounds like a reserve for Alonso and Stroll
The team F1 Haas suddenly struck down its pilot Esteban Oconsurprising the entire paddock by announcing that the Frenchman will no longer drive for the remainder of the weekend in Mexico and that his place would be occupied by the Japanese Ryo Hirakawa. And it seems that this decision could be final for the four remaining races of the course, although the American team did not refer to it in its statement. What happened between Ocon and the team? There are many rumors about it.
The only thing that is known is that Esteban Ocon was not going to be part of Haas in 2027 to the plosing his seat in favor of another Ferrari talent like Rafael Camarawhich will debut in F1 in 2027 as companion of another young man from the red box academy, Oliver Bearman.
However, Haas was going to keep Ocon until the end of the season. That was the intention before what happened on Friday in Mexico. It seems that Ocon will no longer drive for the American team.
Several media outlets point towards a discussion in the engineering meeting that the pilots of F1 they do with their teams at the end of Friday, to review the day and analyze the data. There, according to ‘DAZN’ reporter, Tomás Slafer, A fight broke out between Ocon and someone on the team at that meeting.
“After those Free Practice 2, there was a team meeting with the engineers, as always happens. In that meeting there is a discussion, a fight, which escalates and which is the trigger that Haas needed to justify firing Esteban Ocon. It happened at night,” the journalist assured.
And other international media have the same version. Furthermore, Slafer assures that Ocon, this Saturday, is not only no longer on the circuit, but that I had already taken a flight to leave Mexico.
Before that meeting, in FP2, Esteban Ocon was seen questioning a team decision in their work plan, asking to keep the soft tire instead of having to switch to the medium rubber. “No, I want the soft one, don’t do this to me. This weekend it’s my turn”he told his track engineer.
Autosport places him in Aston Martin
As a result of this news, the specialized media ‘Autosport’ assured that Esteban Ocon’s future would be in Aston Martin as a reserve driver for the Silverstone team in 2027, sharing a team with Fernando Alonso, with whom he had several frictions when both were teammates in Alpine, and with Lance Stroll.
