esteban ocon He has reflected on his 2022 Miami crash as possibly the most violent crash he has experienced in his Formula 1 career.
The one-time Grand Prix winner, who made his F1 debut in 2016, discussed the topic in an in-depth conversation with French YouTube channel Legend after interviewer Guillaume Play described French rugby player Sébastien Chabal as suffering from partial amnesia – which may be linked to multiple injuries suffered during his career.
“I’ve had some big crashes,” Ocon said. “Touch wood, those accidents have never been very violent, some of them were over 40G in intensity and almost injured me. Sometimes my vision would be blurry, or I would have a headache for three, four days…”
Now a Haas driver, Ocon described his crash at the 2022 Miami Grand Prix as potentially the worst ever. representation of alpine At that time, he lost control of his car at Turn 13 and the car crashed backwards into the wall.
“I took 42G – for those who want to see that crash, it’s not that impressive, but I hit a concrete wall. That was in FP3, in Miami in 2022. I went, I hit the wall. Both my knees hurt and after that I could barely walk,” explained the Frenchman, who took more than a minute and a half to extricate himself from his car.
Marshals assist Esteban Ocon, Alpine A522, after a crash
Photo by: Mark Sutton/Motorsport Images
“I remember, the next morning I was taking a bath and fell. I lost my balance and I fell, I was not in good shape at all. I managed to finish eighth in that race by starting from last. I was peeing red, it was not good!”
Although he demonstrated a solid drive, Ocon was one of four drivers who executed their only pitstops of the race under a perfectly timed virtual, then full safety car.
Earlier, Ocon had been in eighth place, but was only 11 seconds behind in 14th lando norris before mclaren the driver hit pierre gaslyDue to which caste became ineffective – only with lance stroll Still to join that group.
Ocon had his best F1 season to date in terms of points total with 92 points in 2022, which placed him eighth in the championship – the same position as 2017 at Force India, with 87 points in just 20 races.
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