Inside Ocon's first day at Renault
After a year spent waiting in the wings at Mercedes, Esteban Ocon is back on the grid with the team that gave him his break in F1. He started his new job in Abu Dhabi in December, and Anthony Peacock was there to watch...
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When you first meet him, you think Esteban Ocon hails from the deep south of France. There's the tanned skin, the sheer intense wiriness of him, and of course the name Esteban: suggesting the dramatic landscape of the Pyrenees, with its colours and flavours that link France and Spain from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.
In reality, he's from the opposite end of the country - born to a family with Spanish roots - ?in the Norman town of Evreux, which is closer to Enstone in England (555km) than it is to the border with Spain (around 850km). Viry-Chatillon, the Renault F1 team's other base, is a mere 120km away.
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