In 5th place, Esteban Ocon had a very good qualifying session. Unfortunately for the Normand, after only 4 laps, he lost his position to George Russell in his Mercedes.<\/p>\n
Starting from the 5th lap, Esteban Ocon engaged in a fierce battle with his garage neighbor, Fernando Alonso. After several position exchanges on the 14th lap, the Frenchman was asked to maintain his position.<\/p>\n
Indeed, these numerous battles approaching turn number 1 allowed George Russell to pull away, but most importantly, enabled Bottas and Magnussen to get closer to the pink cars.<\/p>\n
On the 38th lap, Ocon gained 3 positions following the successive retirements of Fernando Alonso, Daniel Ricciardo, and Valtteri Bottas. He now found himself in a comfortable 7th position.<\/p>\n
Unlike last year when Esteban Ocon was overtaken on the finish line by Valtteri Bottas, the opposite scenario played out for the Norman in 2022 with a beautiful overtaking move on Lando Norris in the last turn of the final lap, securing him the 6th position.<\/p>\n
It was intense towards the end with Lando, but we had two very good weeks (Bahrain and Jeddah), and we scored a lot of points from our side of the garage. It would have been even better without Fernando’s issue, but it’s very good for the team.<\/p>\n
With the new race cars, the best defense is the offense, and with Valtteri behind, it was important to maintain the position.<\/p>\n
These two finishes in the points allow Esteban Ocon to hold the 6th position in the driver’s standings with 14 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was a eventful race for Esteban Ocon, who despite numerous battles, managed to bring his Alpine into the points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":35574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[53,330,456],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-alpine-f1-team","tag-ocon","tag-grand-prix-darabie-saoudite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n