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ESTEBAN OCON & OLLIE BEARMAN after the Austrian GP

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mick schumacher and esteban ocon doing normal friend things in the paddock on qualifying day, austria - june 28, 2025 📷 michael memmler / alamy

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stakef1team ‘Hear me out Hulk’ or ‘Hear me out Gabi’ 🥹🤣

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Could you explain how the hate toward Ocon is rooted in racism and classism? This is not an inflammatory question by the way—I genuinely want to know your thoughts. I understand that he was not as well-off as the likes of Stroll, Lando, Max, etc., but to me, it seems like a white, 28-year-old male race car driver worth 21 million dollars with a model girlfriend is on the opposite end of that spectrum.

Well, for starters, “not well-off” doesn’t even begin to describe it. He may be worth that much now, but he came into this sport with essentially nothing. His parents sold their home and his father’s business (his father is a mechanic, they sold his garage) and lived out of a caravan so Esteban could get through karting. His father took tires out of the trash that other kids parents had taken off their karts because he couldn’t afford new ones for Esteban. His family was quite far from “well off.” He is one of the few drivers on the grid who doesn’t come from money.

And as for the racism aspect, well, I hope you realize Esteban isn’t white. He’s mixed race. His father is Spanish and his mother is Algerian. Esteban is half MENA. His full name is Esteban José Jean-Pierre Ocon-Khelfane. He has always been called “not a real French” and when he was a child he was called racial slurs by other kids in karting. He was also called the “son of a dumpster diving mechanic.”

So while right now, he may seem well off, that doesn’t make up for the years of discrimination he faced to get here. A lot of which is a huge part of the root of the hate he still receives to this day.

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This goofy goober trying to befriend a squirrel 🥹💜

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ok gabi...

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With the F1 Movie release lingering closer and closer, it’s time to have an uncomfortable conversation.

Forgive me for going all feminist on you (I’m not sorry), but have a seat and let’s chat, yeah?

Let’s discuss the negative impact this movie is going to have on women in motorsport as well as female fans, shall we?

Of course the obvious conversation is about the women working in motorsport. Imagine how poorly the plot is going to reflect on them. Why? Oh, well let’s see. You’ve got an entire plot that revolves around the main character (who’s played by a misogynistic wife beater, by the way, great casting choice!) sleeping with his fucking female engineer.

Now bear in mind how that’s going to negatively affect the PR of women working in motorsport. Especially Laura Mueller, who is the sport’s first ever female race engineer in its entire 75 year history. Who literally already has incels on the internet saying the only way she got her job is because she slept with someone.

And of course, consider the female fans.

There are so many of us out here every day fighting with male fans who think we “don’t know anything” and “only watch F1 because the drivers are hot.” We are constantly ostracized in this fucking sport and feeling like we have to prove that we’re even allowed to like it.

Can you imagine how poorly the F1 Movie will reflect on us?

All this movie is going to do is push the harmful, negative stereotype that F1 is a “man’s world.” It’s just going to make women feel like they don’t belong in a sport where they already feel shoved aside.

So, and maybe I’m being a little dramatic here, but if you happen to know a female F1 fan, please be kind to her. Please check on her.

And to all my ladies, we do belong in this sport. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. 💜💜

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THIS IS A WORK OF ART OMG THOUSANDS OF FANFICS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ALONE

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Father and son 🥹

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 16: (L-R) Flavy Barla and Esteban Ocon attend the World Premiere of F1® The Movie in Times Square on June 16, 2025 in New York City.

Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures.

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they saw Gabi and Nico and said "bet we can do better"

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anyway esteban girlbossed his way into points yet again 💅🏻

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CALLED OUT BY ESTEBAN AND OLLIE: Best Dressed