Esteban Ocon is a French racing driver who has been racing in Formula 1 for several seasons and is currently with the Alpine F1 Team. He is making his debut with the Enfoirés troupe for the 2023 concerts!
He is one of the new faces of Les Enfoirés 2023, Esteban Ocon joins the concert troupe for the benefit of Restos du Coeur, whose 2023 show in Lyon is broadcast this Friday March 3, 2023 on TF1. The Formula 1 driver, who is just competing in the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend, made his debut with the Enfoirés during the concerts recorded at the start of the year. And if you are wondering if the winner of the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix with Alpine, the last French victory to date in F1, pushed the song, the answer is yes! The Normand was integrated into a special F1 table where he revisits the title of Benjamin Biolay “How is your sentence” with in particular Jean-Louis Aubert, Garou, Jenifer or the actor Philippe Lacheau.
“I kinda wondered what I was doing there,” he laughed to TV Magazine. “It was very special to find myself alongside people I’ve seen on television since I was little, whether it’s Kad Merad, Amel Bent or Garou to name a few. We had a great time both on stage and backstage to discuss. It’s a cause that is close to my heart so when I was offered to join the troupe, I did not hesitate for a second. It represents an incredible experience, I I’m very proud of them and I hope I can continue with them for a long time.”
His model and influencer companion
Esteban Ocon has been appearing since 2018 with an Italian model, Elena Berri, also an influencer followed by more than 100,000 people on social networks. The Italian often accompanies her to Grands Prix around the world and shares her love for her fellow driver. “To you Esteban Ocon, the only one who can make me feel at home even on the other side of the planet”, can we read in particular on his Instagram profile or even, declaration of supreme love undoubtedly for a Transalpine, ” You know I love you even more than pizza.”
The express biography of Esteban Ocon
Born on September 17, 1996 in Evreux in the Eure, Esteban Ocon is a French racing driver currently playing in Formula 1. After winning the European Formula 3 championship in 2014 then the GP3 Series championship in 2015, the Frenchman will become the youngest Frenchman to start a GP at 19 years and 345 days. After driving for Force India, Esteban Ocon joined Renault, now Alpine, and won the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2021. In 2022, associated with Fernando Alonso, he allowed the French team to finish 4th in the world championship before seeing Pierre Gasly will join him in 2023 in a team that has become 100% French.
The Formula 1 driver that we know began in karting at an early age, becoming champion of Ile-de-France in 2004 and 2005 before becoming champion of France in 2007. In 2012, at the age of 12, Esteban Ocon makes his single-seater debut in Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0. Two years later, the Frenchman moved up a notch and joined the European Formula 3 Championship. He would become champion by beating a certain Max Verstappen in particular… In 2015, a new category for the driver with the GP3 Series within from the French ART team and also joined the Mercedes structure as a test driver. Faced with the Italian Ghiotto, Ocon won the title at the very last Grand Prix.
From 2016, Esteban Ocon was appointed as a reserve driver for the Renault F1 Team Formula 1 team but remained under the Mercedes fold. In August of the same year, he started in Formula 1 in the modest Manor Racing team, replacing Rio Haryanto. In Belgium, he will become the youngest Frenchman to start in Formula 1. For the 2017 season, the driver goes up a notch and joins the Force India team to replace Nico Hulkenberg, who left for Renault. From his first GP, he took 10th place and the small point awarded for this place to become, again, the youngest Frenchman in history to score a point. At the end of this first season, Ocon will finish in 8th place in the championship, finishing 18 times in the points. In 2018, Esteban Ocon continued with Force India and notably achieved 3rd place in qualifying for the Belgian GP, his best career result. At the end of the season and faced with the takeover of the team placing Lance Stroll, the owner’s son, in the pink bucket seat (the team’s colour), Esteban Ocon became driver No. 3 at Mercedes, the world champion team. In 2020 and after a year away from competition, Renault and Mercedes agree to place number 31 in the French single-seater in place of Nico Hulkenberg. Despite a delicate season, regularly beaten by his teammate Daniel Ricciardo, Esteban Ocon will obtain the first podium of his career during the GP of Sakhir by finishing in second place. In 2021, he has a second season with the Renault team, now Alpine, alongside double world champion Fernando Alonso, and makes history by winning the Hungarian Grand Prix.
According to the Racingnews site, giving an order of magnitude on the salaries of the drivers, Esteban Ocon, French driver of the Alpine F1 Team stable would receive a salary of around 5 million dollars per season.