F1 Mid-Season Ranking #14: Esteban Ocon

Haas’ Esteban Ocon has enjoyed a new move to a new team for the 2025 season, after a turbulent end to his outing with Alpine. See how he fared against our rankings so far.

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After a turbulent time at Alpine in 2024, Ocon has found a new home this season at Haas F1, alongside the British rookie Oliver Bearman as part of the team’s all-new lineup for 2025. 

His tenure at Haas has been a good move for the Frenchman, as controversy has not yet followed him, and he resides higher in the drivers’ standings than either of the current Alpine F1 drivers.

He currently sits just within the top 10 drivers, in 10th with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly – and his former teammate – sitting down in 14th. 

Ocon has also scored in nearly half of the grand prix currently completed, scoring point finishes in six of 14 races, to sit 10 points behind ninth-placed Nico Hulkenberg, at Sauber. 

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The Frenchman’s best outing was back in China as he took home 10 points – the most of his season so far – and helped complete the team’s first double-points finish of the season. However, according to our rankings, we believe that Belgium was one of his strongest weekends of the season so far.

Against his teammate, Ocon is leading. In both qualifying formats – traditional and sprint – the Frenchman currently leads Bearman 8-6 in traditional qualifying and 2-0 in the sprint format.

This is similar in the races, as the experienced driver holds a four-race advantage over Bearman, currently standing 9-5 in the Grand Prix. However, Bearman is leading narrowly in sprint races with Ocon trailing 2-1.

See how we rated Ocon across the season below. 

2025 Rankings: 

• Australian GP: 6 Points

• Chinese GP: 12 Points

• Japanese GP: 4 Points

• Bahrain GP: 6 Points

• Saudi Arabia GP: 7 Points

• Miami GP: 8 Points

• Imola GP: 4 Points

• Monaco GP: 11 Points

• Spanish GP: 5 Points

• Canadian GP: 10 Points

• Austrian GP: 11 Points

• British GP: 5 Points

• Belgium GP: 14 Points

• Hungarian GP: 3 Points

Total Points: 106 Points

DISCLAIMER: 

As previously confirmed, we rank drivers out of 20 points across each race weekend of the season. The highest performing, or best driver, of the weekend would get a maximum score of 20 points, while each driver below them would be ranked one point less.  

If a driver does not start a race, they will be automatically given one point.

If more than one driver does not start a race, these points will be handed out in order it is announced i.e. Driver 1 (D1) is announced not to start two hours before the race start, but Driver 2 (D2) retires on the way to – or on – the grid, D1 will get one point and D2 will get two points.

Read more Formula 1 here:

• F1 Mid-Season Ranking #15: Oliver Bearman
• F1 Mid-Season Ranking #16: Liam Lawson
• F1 Mid-Season Rankings #17: Gabriel Bortoleto
• F1 Mid-Season Ranking #18: Yuki Tsunoda
• F1 Mid-Season Ranking #19: Lance Stroll
• How have AI F1 predictions fared in 2025?

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Hi, I’m Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion.

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Kamron Kent

Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.