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All those crashes may not be his fault, however he is always the common denominator

Thing about Ocon is, and always has been, for all the times he wasn't at fault in the incident, it often feels like you have to pull back 5 seconds and ask "Why were you in that situation in the first place?". He just has this uncanny ability to lose all driving ability and vision when he's put into a situation. ANd he is REALLY BAD about avoiding these situations. His racecraft overall isn't bad, it's just this panic button decision making where it feels like he can't seem to understand when to avoid something or let it go. We all know all drivers like to pull the Senna "I'm putting my car here and it's up to you if we crash or not" from time to time, the difference is Ocon tends to say "Then we crash!" a bit too often, and usually for personal pride vs a teammate instead of a daring move for big points or a podium.

That there are those that feel he needs another F1 drive. Oh, vey. And suggesting Hass is a good fit. Hass doesn’t need more drama. That’s why they canned Mr. S.

Woah, hold up...... Monaco, by the current rules, was not Ocon's fault. He had enough car by Gasley to make it legit. The legit criticism might be if there were team orders in play, but I suspect Gasley knew he was going anyway and thus, doesn't give a toss about Alpine's orders.

Agreed.

We talk about silly season in F1 and other categories but nothing is said of the Silly season that constantly happens within Alpine. I do wonder at this point are they actual people or are they just making names up on a diagram

I honestly don’t think it’s a who he’s crashing into, moreover his attitude and his inability to apologise when he is at fault. His statement after Monaco race had real petulance about it, as did the way he spoke to the media after too.

Great video as always. For me personally I welcome most of the current grid leaving and making room for younger drivers. That's just me. One thing - you've heard Zhou pronounced correctly for over two years now. It's probably time to pronounce it correctly. At this point it just comes off as willful ignorance/disrespect to pronounce it the way you do.

Tuesdays are my Mondays. The day I hate and crap happens on. And Now, This. Hold my hand up, I did that to Mick, I've dumped on Haas and Hulkenberg since. Particularly pointing out how Schumacher was dropped for a few crashes, but they especially picked Hulkenberg, who has the record for most podium-less races, and all but one time he had a chance to put that right... He crashed. Not impressed.

IDK if Ocon can stop talking to the media for the rest of the season. We have Lawson in the mix have next year too.

Ocon did win a race fair and square and no one can take that away from him.

About time. The guy’s a liability. Hopefully Magnussen and Sargent next

Ocon + KMag as Teammates would be like the Mad Max movie 🍿

Ocon has the driving ability, but the attitude it’s a huge red flag, it doesn’t look like he hasn’t learned anything from his mistakes

Ocon should’ve been gone from F1 a while ago. He’s a dirty driver and a bad teammate that never learns

But Tuesday's mum says it is cool!

He beat Alonso, but how many DNFs or reliability issue Alonso have that year?

The season he beat Alonso I believe Alonso had (at least) six retirements due to Alpines shit PU. Close enough that he never beats Alonso without that circumstance

I think the last three years of stats tells another story: The Alpines especially seem to occupy the same stretch of tarmac/grid rows. If the drivers are going to be that close on performance, you need two drivers who can keep their noses clean. A very hard thing to do when both drivers don't get on.

I agree with you that most fans are biased and are ready to make a villain out of someone who crashes or challenges their favourite driver. However I would argue that Ocon's reputation isn't exaggerated compared to how he is on the track. He is super aggressive, particularly agains his teammates which doesn't always lead to contact, but can hinder the team in another way, like Hungary 2022 when his aggressive defending against Alonso made the latter lose places. Also I think Baku 2017 vs Perez was Ocon's fault but that's just my opinion

Personally I wouldn't touch Ocon with a 12 foot barge pole. He's too out for himself, and does nothing but cost a team, both in monetary terms and points for the constructors championship. Also, I don't see why Mick Schumacher is getting such an easy ride, he's crap and crashed just as many cars as Mazepin, maybe it's because of who Mick's father is. No other driver would get sacked from a team, for the amount of times he crashed out and cost his team so dearly, and then have people link him with every seat that's available on the grid!!!!!

It's attitude as much the coming together with team mates.

FRENCH SPORTS PSYCHOLOGISTS HAVE CONCLUDED OCON HAS A PERSONALITY ISSUE, CAN'T BE HELPED OR CHANGED: THUS TERMINATED.

He's never exactly been a great marketing tool .he's Bland . arrogant . Dull Im sure when he talks to himself enough he believes he's great

Damn... I already miss the thing at the end about the thing. :-(

The guy was a smoking gun - he seemed to enjoy and bring on conflict wherever he went. Watching these in isolation is a bit self-defeating - in the heat of the moment as all races are, snap decisions are made and kept. The worst thing for him is that he's an individualist whose manager prides himself on a team ethos. I won't be sorry to see the back of him quite frankly.

As an American I loved the term sacked. We need to start using it

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Sainz will either go to Audi or Williams. Bottas gets whichever seat Sainz turns down. Haas gets Bearman because Ferrari wants him to get experience and needs a place to park him. Mercedes gets Antonelli, unless Toto can get Williams to take him for a year while he's learning F1 and wrecking someone else's cars. Ocon's either got to hope Sainz and/or Bottas go mental and neither takes the Audi seat (and that Zhou's out of consideration), or that Haas isn't once again the Ferrari Academy F1 Tryout Team

I’m a massive Ocon fan and always said the fans give him a harsh rep for being an outsider among the drivers, that said monaco is 100% on him and while sucks to see him dropped, I understand. That said Bruno Famin also deserve criticism in how Alpine managed their drivers cause you look at how that team has been managed and under Marcin Budkowski, Alpine was one unit helping each other and once he left it’s been downhill ever since especially under Famins tenure

Since you're struggling with pronouncing Famin: Let's just say, in Monaco they called him Bruno Fumin'.

Also, Alonso was placing better but kept blowing up engines...

Great point in the first half of the video. If a driver has the right look and/or the right name and a lot of fans then they can basically do anything on track and get away with it. If you replaced Ocon and Gasly with Hulkenberg and KMag, and we watched Hulk drive over the top of his teammate and total his car fans would blame KMag for turning in on him. The second half of these videos, "where will he end up", is all dependant on where Sainz lands, the top drivers sign their contracts and then these other drivers have to fight for whatever seats are left. Not much point in speculating until we know what happens with Sainz.

My prediction: Aidan is actually making the video telling Ocon he is getting le sack

TROP-CON!

Unfortunate but he had several chances. I respect his family's sacrifices to get to the sport and his view on always racing as hard as one can against everyone, including teammates. But having one of the 20 seats is a privilege and there's a difference between driving aggressive yet fair versus ruthlessly. Never take out your team, and he's done it too many times.

Formula E makes sense because of the marketing.

I think whatever happens to Ocon will influence Sainz's decision. Audi is still waiting for Sainz to sign on that dotted line, but the longer he prolongs his decision, the more agitated Audi will become. And now with Ocon being a free agent and could be willing to commit to a long term project even if it means writing off 2025, he will sign up. And fed up with Sainz's indecision Audi signs Ocon by the Spanish GP and will have their driver pairing locked up for 2025 and 2026 which will allow them more time (in theory) to prepare for 2026 when the new regulations kick in. And if that Audi ship sails away and he's not interested in James Wovles' sales pitch over at Williams, Sainz's gamble on betting on himself will fail and he might be out of F1, probobly for good as the years go by other drivers in F2 and F3 might overtake him in the wish list of F1 teams

I see what you did there in the title. Very funny 😂

Ocon's biggest issue is having been mostly paired, and having very similar results to, two drivers who have a very toxic fanbase (and I say that as a big Alonso fan), while himself not being Anglo-Saxon, meaning there's no British press counterweight. That's really all there is.

He’s very open about always looking after number one. Points for honesty, but that’s not what any teamboss wants to hear. And we don’t decide if he gets a seat or no, the teamboss does. Monaco only proved that he spoke truth. And that he’s too impatient to await or create an opportune moment. Also something a teamboss doesn’t like.

I'm glad I'm not the only one upset by formula e being on TNT. Loved watching that series and never missed a race, but haven't watched a race now since it disappeared into the void, such a shame as it was building a good fan base which it absolutely deserved

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In my opinion, Ocon is a lot like Maldonado, Grosjean and the rest of that "clique". He has skill, he is fast but then he pulls a baffling move out of nowhere and all his qualities end up flushed down the toilet. A huge enigma of a driver.

For me the ocon stuff is like a "where there's smoke there's fire" type situation. He apparently has a horrible reputation among other drivers, and he's always having conflicts with his teammates. He seemed to be bulletproof with the previous leadership, but maybe the new guys know ocon was a problem for alpine and were looking for a reason to get rid of him? That's my read of the whole thing anyway.

I haven't got much to say about Ocon leaving to be honest. Apparently him and Gasly have never been chummy with each other so it was going to combust sooner or later. If however Alpine are serious about getting back up to the front end of the grid, should they maybe look at getting Sainz back into the team? Sainz and Gasly sounds like it could be a decent pairing. I'm assuming it's gonna be Jack Doohan who gets Ocon's seat though. I don't follow F2 these days but from I understand he's pretty good and Alpine probably don't want Piastri 2: Electric Boogaloo on their hands! Sidenote, the bots are early in the comments today. I'm pretty sure the first four comments are bots!

John Oliver is a win.

I think Tsunoda should come to Alpine,it would be fun to see him and Gasly again,and if you’ve seen the Canada poster,there is only one Alpine car,IMO it shows How only Gasly has his seat,and Ocon doesn’t belong in Alpine anymore.

Mick shouldn’t be anywhere near a F1 seat

The likable driver thing can be said about Albon as well, he's a nice guy and very quick but MAN can he destroy a car. Ocon has the same problem, quick guy buy drives with blinders on at times, still I was surprised they let him go so quickly.