Saturday, March 18, 2017

Meet our featured F1 driver for 2017

A new kid on the block or should I say the grid. Esteban Ocon has only been around a little while, in fact only since 1996.
Esteban is a young French lad and girls, yes he is single. In motorsport terms he is old-school already as he has been at the pedals since he was four years old. I'm not talking about his pedal car, I'm talking karting. His first major success came in 2007 winning the French Minime Championship. My math isn't the best but he was around eleven, a little late in his career I would have thought. 2008 was another good year for Esteban as were the next few. The lad graduated to the real racing cars in 2014 running in the Macau Grand Prix. His mum would have been proud as he went on that year to win the championship, and with a round to spare. It's not what you know it's who you know and Esteban made the most of it and landed a spot in the Mercedes AMG Junior program and with a little hangin' out with the big boys he landed a testing gig with Lotus. I think it's called engine warming. In 2015 interest came his way from Force India F1. Half way through the season a Esteban was offered a drive from team Manor, remember them? Esteban finished the remaining races for Manor between his DTM Mercedes commitments. There is no doubt Esteban will do us proud here at EG&RC and we're looking forward to following his progress in the Force India F1 team.

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