奥孔离开哈斯车队：媒体团队给出他们的评判
埃斯特班·奥孔将在2026赛季末离开哈斯一事已成定局，F2积分榜领跑者拉斐尔·卡马拉预计将接替他的席位。
埃斯特班·奥孔将在2026年一级方程式赛季末离开哈斯一事已成定局，F2积分榜领跑者拉斐尔·卡马拉预计将接替他的席位。
但奥孔得到了公平的机会吗？我们的团队给出他们的评判……
他的速度不足以证明续约的合理性
我不会把奥孔列为当前22位F1车手中最差的、因此完全活该失去席位，但他可能排在前15名之外，当身后有严重压力时，这就足以让你的位置变得危险。
我认为这个问题的核心在于，哈斯车队的运作成本仍然低于预算上限，且整体资金不足，因此在奥康身上花的钱，必须用比他过去两个赛季所展现出的更高整体表现水平来证明其合理性。
他偶尔闪现过自己的实力，也有过一些短暂且持续的良好状态，但还不足以把他标榜为明确的车队领袖和标杆——而这正是车队付钱让他扮演的角色。
简而言之，奥利·比尔曼速度太快了，哈斯需要节省资金，而奥康的表现还不够好，也不够稳定，无法同时证明他所拿的薪水以及他似乎在幕后给车队带来的压力是值得的。
一级方程式车队可以接受非常强势的个性，但前提是你必须在赛道上用成绩来支撑你的要求。
当你把这些因素再加上一位法拉利青训车手——拉法·卡马拉，他既有法拉利的支持，又有来自巴西的资金 背景支持——在 TPC 测试（借用旧车进行的测试项目）中凭借纯粹的圈速把哈斯车队彻底比下去，就很容易理解为什么，尽管奥孔相比仍在占据一级方程式席位的其他几位车手可能还有更多可提供的价值，但不幸的是，至少目前他已经走到了路的尽头。
考虑到奥孔很有资格被称为发车阵容中最（甚至是唯一？）正常的一个人，他当初能够进入一级方程式，本身就是一项巨大的超水平成就。
他也比自己获得的评价更好——状态最佳时速度极快，而且是一位非常强悍的比赛车手。奥孔确实风格激进，也有可能做出自毁前程的事（无论在赛道上还是赛道外）。但他属于那种车手：只要在一辆中游赛车上得到争夺好成绩的机会，就完全可以指望他把机会把握到底。
如果奥孔留在发车阵容里，整个阵容会更强。不过，他并不总是拿出自己最好的一面，阿尔派车队以及如今哈斯车队的人们都说，他没有意识到主动权在自己手中。这一点一直拖累着他，并造成了不必要的摩擦。
奥孔几乎可以肯定只是认为自己行事直截了当，而且很可能正是哈斯车队在赛季初告诉他所需要的那个角色。也许这其中有几分道理。也许能真正激发他全部潜力的环境一直与他擦肩而过。
如果他找到了那样的环境，和/或在自己性格的不同侧面之间取得了更好的平衡，那么奥通的F1生涯距离结束可能还有好几年。他确实有足够的实力继续占据一个车手席位更长时间。
他的F1生涯并未达到他进入F1前的履历所预示的高度——连续夺得欧洲F3和GP3冠军，加上梅赛德斯的鼎力支持，本让人期待更多。但他的生涯也谈不上糟糕。
不过考虑到他已经征战了九个多赛季的F1比赛，参加了大约200场大奖赛，奥孔已经拥有了一段相当可观的职业生涯，只是他还没有拿出足够有说服力的表现，让人认定如果这段生涯无法延续到第二个十年就会是一种遗憾。
而即便是让他在F1发车区上待到这么久，也并非一帆风顺：他先是被梅赛德斯青训体系挤了出去，后来又在印度力量车队为了让位给斯特罗尔而被挤走，并因此闲置了一年。这两种情况中，其中一种比另一种要公平得多，但他都凭借自己的努力重新爬了回来。
一位非常优秀的车手，虽然有某些局限，但在F1之外的赛车世界里仍能提供很多价值。
不过，对于自己在F1的生涯以何时、何种方式收尾，他没什么可抱怨的。
我认为，在他效力过的车队里，他已经得到了公平的机会，但从未真正展现出格外出众的实力。他一直很出色，但像许多人一样，出色却不够卓越。
另外再补充一点，他从来都不像是一个有团队精神的车手。我记得他经常和队友发生碰撞。没错，他最近表现好了一些，但也许只是因为他们没有长时间在赛道的同一位置上竞争。
还有一个有趣的地方是，自从他被替换的传闻出现后，他在巴库能够提升自己的表现。在我看来，这说明他是一个并不是每次坐进赛车都愿意全力以赴的车手。
另外，我很高兴看到一支车队愿意给有前途的新秀车手机会；在F1中有太多平庸的老将占着席位。我并不是说目前的车手没有能力留在F1，但这项被誉为赛车运动精英中的精英的赛事，总共只有22个席位。
很可能还有大约50名正在低级别方程式中成长的车手，他们比其中50%的人更出色或更有潜力。
抱歉这个裁决有点跑题，但我非常支持让新人才进入F1，让他们与现有的车手阵容同场竞技，展示他们真正的天赋。
F1可以做的一件事是：允许车队在每个大奖赛带三辆组装好的赛车，毕竟他们本来就会带第三辆车作为备件，只是没有完全组装。如果这样做，他们就可以在所有比赛周末的延长版90分钟第一次自由练习中派出三辆赛车——为了减少某些赛事中的车流，可以规定每个车队在任一时刻只允许两辆赛车在赛道上。
对于冲刺赛周末，冲刺排位赛和冲刺赛恢复为两辆赛车参赛，但需立法规定每支车队必须轮换其现有车手，并至少派出一名参加过大奖赛不超过两次的车手。
两名参赛车手获得的冲刺赛积分只计入车队单独的“冲刺车队总冠军”和“冲刺车手总冠军”，这或许能打开一扇门，找到下一个超级巨星。
然后在周六冲刺赛结束之后，两位常规大奖赛车手会接手进行30分钟的第二阶段自由练习，紧接着就进行大奖赛排位赛，而大奖赛则照常在周日举行。
考虑到奥康的一级方程式生涯最初本身就是一件非常 不太可能的事情，我不会排除他再次拼回一级方程式发车区的可能性。
他只有30岁，而且目前的表现水平，可能比自前队友塞尔希奥·佩雷斯2020年惊人结尾以来任何被解雇的车手都要高。
想想角田裕毅（红牛）、佩雷斯（红牛）、丹尼尔·里卡多（阿尔法·托利）、凯文·马格努森（哈斯）、瓦尔特里·博塔斯和周冠宇（索伯）。他们当中没有任何人的表现能接近奥康在最近几轮比赛中所达到的水平。
因此，奥孔拥有八场比赛的现任车手优势这一强大武器，驾驶着一辆升级后的哈斯赛车，如今这辆车在大多数赛道上看起来都有能力争夺积分。
如果他能够继续交出一些击败贝尔曼的比赛周末，那么他离开F1时将留下一个有力的提醒：如果某支F1车队需要一名有经验的车手，无论是作为替补还是正式车手，他应该是首选。
重返F1不会在2027年发生，但或许这足以让他在2028年的人才市场上保持活跃。
英文原文
Esteban Ocon's exit from Haas at the end of the 2026 Formula 1 season is now official, with F2 points leader Rafael Camara expected to replace him.
But was Ocon given a fair chance? Our team gives their verdict...
He wasn't fast enough to justify another deal
I wouldn't rank Ocon as the worst of the current 22 F1 drivers, and therefore completely deserving of dropping off the grid, but he's probably outside the top 15 and that's enough to leave you vulnerable when there's serious pressure from underneath.
I think at the crux of this is that Haas still operates below the cost cap and remains underfunded overall, so the money being spent on Ocon needs to be justified by a higher overall level of performance than he's shown over the past two seasons.
There have been flashes of what he's capable of, and some short spurts of sustained good form, but not enough to mark him out as the clear team leader and reference - which is what he's paid to be.
In short, Ollie Bearman has been too fast, Haas needs to save cash, and Ocon hasn't been good enough, consistently enough, to justify both the money he's being paid and the stress it seems he's put the team under behind the scenes.
F1 teams will accept very demanding personalities, but only if you do the job on track to back up your demands.
When you add all that to a Ferrari junior, in Rafa Camara - who brings Ferrari support as well as financial backing from Brazil - simply blowing Haas away with his sheer pace in TPC testing, it's easy to see why, even though Ocon might still have more to offer than several others still occupying F1 seats, he's unfortunately reached the end of the road, for now.
That Ocon even got to F1 in the first place is a huge overachievement considering he has a strong claim to be the most (only?) normal person on the grid.
He is also better than he gets credit for - extremely fast at his best and a very formidable racer. Ocon's aggressive, sure. And capable of being self-defeating (on track and off it). But he is one of those drivers who, if given a chance at a result in a midfield car, can be completely depended on to see it through.
The grid is stronger if Ocon remains on it. He doesn't always put his best foot forward, though, and people at Alpine and now at Haas say he fails to recognise that agency. This is something that has held him back and caused unnecessary friction.
Ocon almost certainly just sees himself as being straightforward, and probably exactly what Haas told him it needed him to be at the start. And maybe there's some truth to that. Maybe the environment that would get the very best out of him has simply eluded him.
If he finds it, and/or achieves a slightly better balance between his own sides, then Ocon's F1 career could still be years from ending. He's certainly good enough to hold down a seat for longer.
This hasn't lived up to what Ocon's pre-F1 package of back-to-back European F3 and GP3 titles plus Mercedes patronage intimated would be possible. Neither has it been terrible
But given he's had nine and a bit F1 racing seasons, around 200 grands prix, Ocon's had a very healthy career already without providing compelling evidence that it would be a travesty if that career didn't stretch into a second decade.
And even getting his time on the F1 grid to that length hasn't been straightforward, given how he was squeezed off the Mercedes ladder and was the one squeezed out of Force India to accommodate Lance Stroll and had a year on the sidelines as a result. One of those situations was a lot more meritocratic than the other, and he clawed his way back from both.
A very good driver, with some limitations, and plenty to offer the rest of the racing world outside F1.
But he can have no complaints about when and how his time in F1 is concluding.
I think he has had a fair crack at it with the teams he has driven for but never really stood out as being exceptional. He's been good but not exceptional as so many are.
Also to add to that he has never seemed like a team player. I remember him colliding frequently with his team-mates. Yes, he has been better lately, but perhaps that's just because they haven’t been on the same part of the track for very long.
It’s also interesting that since these rumours of him being replaced, he was able to up his game in Baku. To me, that shows a driver who is not willing to give his all every time he sits in the car.
Also, I’m very happy to see a team giving up and coming drivers an opportunity; we have far too many journeymen retaining seats in F1. I’m not saying any of the current drivers are not capable of being in F1, but there are only 22 seats in the formula that is classified as the cream de la crème of motorsport.
There are probably 50 other drivers out there coming through the lower formulas that are better or have more potential than 50% of them.
Sorry to go off piste with this verdict, but I am a big fan of getting new talent into F1 to allow them to show their true talent against the resident pack of drivers.
One thing F1 could do is to allow teams to bring three assembled cars to each Grand Prix, after all, they do bring a third car in spares, but it isn’t completely assembled. If they did that, then they could run three cars in an extended 90-minute FP1 session at all race weekends - to reduce the traffic at some events, only allow two cars from each team on the track at any one point in time.
For sprint weekends, go back to two cars for sprint qualifying and the sprint race, but legislate that each team must alternate their resident driver and run at least one driver that has never competed in more than two grand prixs.
Sprint points from both drivers competing only count towards the teams' separate ‘sprint constructors' championship’ and a ‘sprint drivers' championship’ that might just open the door to finding the next superstar.
Then after the sprint race on the Saturday your normal two grand prix drivers take over for a 30-minute FP2 session just before grand prix qualifying, with the grand prix as normal on Sunday.
Given Ocon's F1 career was such an improbability in the first place, I wouldn't rule out the prospect of him fighting his way back onto the F1 grid (again).
He's only 30, and he's currently performing at a higher level than any axed driver since probably ex-team-mate Sergio Perez's startling end to 2020.
Think of Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull), Perez (Red Bull), Daniel Ricciardo (AlphaTauri), Kevin Magnussen (Haas), Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu (Sauber). None of them was performing anywhere near the level Ocon has managed in recent rounds.
So Ocon has the powerful weapon of incumbency for eight more rounds, driving an upgraded Haas car that now looks capable of fighting for points at most tracks.
If he can continue to deliver some Bearman-beating weekends, then he'll walk out of F1 having delivered a strong reminder that he should be the experienced driver of choice if an F1 team needs one, be it as a stand-in or full-time driver.
A return won't happen in 2027, but perhaps it will be just enough to keep him floating on the market for 2028.
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