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The downfall of Esteban Ocon
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Esteban Ocon was once a Mercedes F1 junior and the conqueror of Max Verstappen in Formula 3, yet now he's been fired by his two most recent F1 teams, become so toxic that he was released early by both of those teams, and now what's left of his F1 career hangs by a thread.
And as Ocon sits out the remainder of the 2026 F1 season with Haas confirming he will not return following his shock mid-weekend benching in Mexico, even he must be asking: how did it come to this?
Our latest video explores that sequence of events.
00:28 How did it come to this?
02:00 The red flags
03:49 What happened with Haas?
06:10 Moving on from Ocon
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