On 30 September, the Haas racing team confirmed the rumours that had been doing the rounds: Esteban Ocon, who has competed in 196 Grand Prix races, is no longer with the team.<\/p>\n
Haas has not yet made an official announcement, but all signs point to Brazilian Rafael Camara taking Ocon\u2019s place next season. The 21-year-old Ferrari prot\u00e9g\u00e9 is competing in Formula 2 in 2026 and currently leads the championship.<\/p>\n
As for Ocon: what next? The 2022 World Championship eighth-place finisher said in the paddock at the Marina Bay Circuit in Singapore: \u201cI\u2019m still working on it; we\u2019re discussing it. When I have more news for you, I\u2019ll definitely make an announcement. But at the moment, my full focus is on this weekend \u2013 let\u2019s keep up the good work we\u2019ve been doing at the last few events, and keep making overtakes. I think I\u2019ve made more than 100 overtakes this year, so that\u2019s pretty good.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Esteban explains exactly what he has in mind for 2027: \u201cMy plan is Formula 1. This is where I belong. When I look at the results and everything I\u2019ve shown in Formula 1 over the years, I deserve to stay in the top flight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, there are other racing categories that are fantastic, but I want to be racing in Formula 1 for the next five to seven years. That\u2019s the only thing on my mind at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I can\u2019t get a permanent seat, then I\u2019d settle for the role of reserve driver. Even if I don\u2019t get a seat in Formula 1, I won\u2019t be racing in any other series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 30 September, the Haas racing team confirmed the rumours that had been doing the rounds: Esteban Ocon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-640445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}