The past two years have been pretty hard on Esteban Ocon, the French driver once dubbed as Lewis Hamilton's successor at Mercedes. After his seat at Racing Point fell by the wayside he quickly found himself out of Formula 1 altogether, attending race weekends with a headset on sat in the Mercedes garage throughout 2019. A year out of full-time racing is tough to handle, especially for a young driver just a couple of years into his F1 career, and so it proved for Ocon. Going up against a fully-embedded Daniel Ricciardo at Renault, the Frenchman struggled and with George Russell continuing to impress at Williams, he looked to be slipping down the pecking order within Mercedes. With Ricciardo...
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