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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEsteban Ocon says he is targetting the last six races to help move Haas forward in 2025 and beyond. Image: XPB Images<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEsteban Ocon says he is targetting the last six races to help move Haas forward in 2025 and beyond. Image: XPB Images<\/p>\n
Speaking to Speedcafe during the Singapore Grand Prix weekend, the Frenchman reflected on the season so far and his ambitions within the team.<\/p>\n
Across 2025, he has scored 28 points, five more than his total across all of 2024, and sits 15th in the championship in one of the closest midfield battles in recent memory.<\/p>\n
With only six rounds remaining, Ocon described the 2025 season as part of a work in progress for his time at the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started the year with a really tough first race and we managed to turn things around,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve scored good points after that. The last couple of races have been tough as it was at tracks that weren\u2019t necessarily suiting our car.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I hope that this part of the season is going to help us more to go back where we should be.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old said there had been few weekends across 2025 where the car had felt complete throughout.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as you put on new tyres I want the car to feel better each time,\u201d Ocon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve rarely had that this year. It was a few times when this happened but when it does happen, we really have great weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alongside his search for a perfect weekend, the French driver said he has embraced his role as a senior figure within the team alongside rookie teammate Oliver Bearman.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are having a great relationship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really nice. To be working with someone that\u2019s bringing fresh air and that\u2019s ready for any challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re teaming up in a great way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haas currently sits ninth in the constructors\u2019 championship and remain in a tight battle with Sauber, Aston Martin, and Racing Bulls for sixth place, with all four teams separated by 36 points.<\/p>\n
Ocon said pushing for the highest possible finish in the constructors\u2019 standings remained the goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think anything\u2019s possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at how tight things are. It only takes a weekend or two to straight away come back as it\u2019s so tight. So yeah, we\u2019ll see where we end up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need a bit more performance out of the car now at this stage, but the aim is to fight to come back through the ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two of the teams Haas is battling with, Sauber and Racing Bulls, secured famous podiums across 2025, with fifth-placed Williams also landing a podium at last month\u2019s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Asked whether Haas could join them on the podium, Ocon remained pragmatic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve been able to be in this kind of position so far this season,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo at this point I don\u2019t think we deserve to be on the podium because we haven\u2019t done things right at the time where there was the opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s so close out there that we need to do, your race is straightforward and correct and box at the right time and get the right course and stuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I don\u2019t feel like when these races were there, we\u2019ve done that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Away from the racetrack, Ocon has recently indulged his passion for cars.<\/p>\n
He recently worked with Mansory and Lamborghini to design a Revuelto model in his personal colours and logos, a project that he said he was very excited to finally get around to.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe decided on what car we wanted to do and for me the Revuelto was the car I wanted to do it on,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s everything that I wanted basically and I wanted to do it for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was about to do it in the previous years with another company but that didn\u2019t happen and I\u2019m glad it didn\u2019t happen because what we\u2019ve done now is much better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ocon also praised the human side of F1, reflecting on the recent test session with Romain Grosjean, which saw the former Haas driver return to the cockpit of an F1 car for the first time since his fiery accident in 2020 that ended his F1 career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awesome to be there and witness that day and great that the team remembers and have a human side,\u201d Ocon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn F1 it\u2019s quite rare to have human sides anymore. I think it\u2019s like a business. And it\u2019s quite sad that this is the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople at high roles forget. That\u2019s not the case of Haas.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esteban Ocon says he is targetting the last six races to help move Haas forward in 2025 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,22304,817,813,816,5328,22708,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-213921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-esteban-ocon","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-haas","15":"tag-slot1_f1","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}