On Friday at the Mexico City Grand Prix, Esteban Ocon argued with his engineer about which tyre to run. On Saturday morning Haas announced that he would not drive for the rest of the weekend.
It came two weeks after Haas confirmed that Rafael Camara, the Ferrari junior leading Formula 2, will take Ocon's seat from 2027. The team gave no reason for standing him down in Mexico, beyond saying it was not illness. His reserve driver Ryo Hirakawa raced instead and scored a point on his debut.
Before Mexico, Ocon's 2026 had been a season of finishing without scoring: classified in seventeen of eighteen races, with seven points. Every message he exchanged with his engineer on air this season, from the Canadian Grand Prix onward, is on
