It was said to be a little behind Australian Daniel Ricciardo in the Renault team.
Esteban Ocon waited until the penultimate Grand Prix of this special season to climb for the first time in his career on a podium in the Formula 1 World Championship.
The 24-year-old Normand, in fact, finished second in the Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain this Sunday behind the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Racing Point) who won the first GP of his career.
“I cried crossing the line,” said the Frenchman on arrival.
While the world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) was absent from the race because he was positive for Covid-19.
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A godsend in any case for Esteban Ocon who told us in the week before his podium: “I have improved, it's a sum of details.
I understood better how to move the car forward, which I needed to get the most out of it.
I gained in understanding the car.
This is mainly where I won a few tenths.
This changes everything, especially in qualifying where everything is played on one lap.
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His next goal in 2021, behind the wheel of an Alpine, Renault's new name, will be to win a Grand Prix like Pierre Gasly this year.
“We want to hear more Marseillaise after the races.
I work there every day, in order to do the same as him.
It is sure that it makes you want ”, he confided to us again.
It gets closer ...