Esteban Ocon will go away Alpine on the finish of 2024, the System One staff confirmed on Monday.

Ocon’s future with the staff, which he joined below its earlier guise Renault in 2020, has been unsure for some time.

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The choice to separate with the driving force brings a 5 yr relationship to an finish. Ocon delivered Alpine’s first F1 race victory on the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix.

“It has been a big interval of my life to be racing at this staff in System 1,” Ocon stated in a press release. “Whereas I have been right here for 5 years as a full-time racing driver, my skilled profession began at Enstone again once I was a youngster, so it can all the time be a particular place for me.

“We have now had some nice moments collectively, some robust moments as properly, and I’m actually grateful to everybody on the staff for these memorable instances. I’ll announce my plans very quickly however, within the meantime, my full focus is on delivering on monitor for this staff and having a profitable the rest of the season.”

The French driver has been linked with Haas and the Audi challenge.

That scenario gained much more protection on the Monaco Grand Prix, the place Ocon collided with teammate Pierre Gasly.

Alpine boss Bruno Famin was livid with the collision and there was hypothesis Ocon could be benched for the upcoming Canadian Grand Prix, though Alpine has dismissed that suggestion since.

Forward of that race, nonetheless, has come the information the 2 events will break up on the finish of this season.

Ocon claimed Alpine’s solely F1 victory on the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, which stays his solely victory within the sport too.