Esteban Ocon has mirrored on his 2022 Miami crash as presumably probably the most violent accident he has skilled in his Components 1 profession.
The one-time grand prix winner, who made his F1 debut in 2016, tackled the topic in an in-depth discuss with French YouTube channel Legend, when interviewer Guillaume Pley introduced up French rugby participant Sebastien Chabal affected by partial amnesia – which can be linked to plenty of concussions throughout his profession.
“I’ve had some massive crashes,” Ocon stated. “Contact wooden, these crashes have by no means been too violent, regardless of a few of them exceeding 40G and almost knocking me out. Typically my eyesight bought blurry, or I had a headache for 3, 4 days…”
Now a Haas driver, Ocon pointed to his accident on the 2022 Miami Grand Prix as probably his worst ever. Representing Alpine on the time, he had misplaced management of his automobile within the Flip 13 curve, crashing backwards into the wall.
“I took 42G – for individuals who need to see that crash, it’s not that spectacular, however I hit a concrete wall. That was in Miami, in FP3, in 2022. I went off, I hit the wall. I hit each my knees and will barely stroll afterwards,” recounted the Frenchman, who did take over a minute and a half to extricate himself from his automobile.
Marshals help Esteban Ocon, Alpine A522, after a crash
Picture by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Photographs
“I keep in mind, the subsequent morning I used to be within the bathe and I collapsed. I misplaced my steadiness and fell, I used to be not properly in any respect. I managed, ranging from final, to complete eighth in that race. I used to be peeing purple, that was not nice!”
Though he did carry out a convincing drive, Ocon was amongst 4 drivers who executed their solely pitstop of the race beneath a wonderfully timed digital, then full security automobile.
Earlier than that, Ocon was eighth, however had simply an 11-second margin on 14th-placed Lando Norris earlier than the McLaren driver collided with Pierre Gasly, inflicting the race to be neutralised – with solely Lance Stroll but to pit in that group.
2022 marked Ocon’s best-ever F1 season by way of whole factors scored with 92, which awarded him eighth place within the championship – the identical place as in 2017 at Power India, with 87 factors in simply 20 races.
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