Ocon exit from Alpine ‘nothing to do’ with Monaco blunder

Esteban Ocon’s upcoming cut up with Alpine is as a result of the pair’s relationship has run its course, based on Sky Sports activities, and has nothing to do with the Frenchman’s controversial run-in in Monaco with teammate Pierre Gasly.

Ocon joined the Enstone squad in 2020 below its Renault guise and delivered to the Alpine model its maiden F1 win in Hungary in 2021, which was additionally the driving force’s first Grand Prix triumph.

However since then, the pair’s collaboration has borne little fruit, with Alpine’s underperformance and disrupted group weighing on its outcomes.

Sky Sports activities reporter Craig Slater confirmed on Monday that Ocon’s departure on the finish of the season just isn’t a results of final Sunday’s occasions in Monte Carlo.

“I’m informed it has nothing to do with that,” Slater stated. “This is able to have occurred. Possibly it has barely extradited the announcement that Ocon is to depart the staff on the finish of the season.

“Individuals already know he will likely be driving for the staff in Canada this week after some doubt was forged on that.

“They [Ocon and Gasly] have been childhood rivals, perhaps the chemistry wasn’t fairly proper between them however that isn’t the rationale he’s ending on the finish of the 12 months.

“The connection between him and the staff has come to a pure finish. He’s been there for 5 years.”

It’s believed that Audi has taken a eager curiosity in Ocon as a ‘plan B’ within the occasion that it can’t safe the companies of outgoing Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz.

Nonetheless, based on Slater’s reporting, Haas seems as a extra possible vacation spot for Ocon, though the US outfit is rumored to even be contemplating Sauber’s Valtteri Bottas.

“It is tough for Ocon,” Slater continued. “He is managed to a level by Mercedes staff boss Toto Wolff. If Wolff wished to place him in that seat to exchange Lewis Hamilton, that will have already occurred. That is not going to occur.

“Many of the doorways appear closed to Esteban Ocon for the time being.

“Is there a slight likelihood he might be in competition for the Audi seat, which is at present Sauber? There’s a suggestion on the desk for Carlos Sainz however he’s caught between taking that possibility or perhaps going to Williams, which over the previous couple of weeks has emerged as a severe contender for Sainz’s signature.

“What he does will permit the opposite groups to make their choices in impact because it may convey the Audi or Williams seat into play. I don’t imagine he has an possibility at Williams.

“Haas for the time being is Ocon’s likeliest likelihood to remain in F1. He is considered one of a variety of drivers in competition there. British teenager Oliver Bearman will nearly actually be driving at Haas subsequent 12 months, with Nico Hulkenberg leaving the staff for Sauber and Audi.

“That would go away Valtteri Bottas, the present driver Kevin Magnussen or Ocon. If it isn’t that, then the World Endurance Championship and Le Mans can be the opposite possibility.”

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