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F1 Beyond The Grid

30 Days of BTG – Day 18: Esteban Ocon’s family journey

F1 Beyond The Grid

karenellenbevan

News, Leisure, Sports News, Sports, Automotive

4.75.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

As Alpine unveil their car for the 2023 F1 season, enjoy an all-time favourite Beyond The Grid story from Esteban Ocon. In 2018 he told Tom Clarkson how his family sold their property to help his race towards Formula 1. 30 Days of BTG is building up to the first new episode of 2023 on Wednesday March 1st.

To hear the full 2018 interview with Esteban, listen here.

You can listen to his second BTG appearance from 2022 here

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:33.7

Hello folks. F1 car launches are coming thick and fast this week, aren't they?

0:38.9

And on the day that Alpine reveal their new car. Here's a clip from our 2018 interview with

0:45.3

their driver, Esteban Ocon. This is one of our all-time favourite conversations.

0:50.9

Esteban's family made huge sacrifices so he could follow his racing dreams.

0:56.1

They sold their home and hit the road and tore the racetracks of Europe.

1:01.5

If you can believe it's three seats in front of the van, it's very small because it was an old van,

1:07.2

it's not like the new version ones. So we're all with the bags and everything because the back

1:13.7

was full of carting tools, whatever it was needed. And the dog on the floor, going through Italy,

1:21.2

going through Spain, going through everywhere, sometimes more than 2,000 kilometres.

1:28.2

So yeah, quite crazy. Do you think about it?

1:30.9

One word springs to mind during all of this. School?

1:35.2

Yes, school. Did it happen?

1:36.7

Oh yeah, yeah.

1:37.2

Why did you have time for school?

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