Lando Norris in F1 at McLaren in 2019

This is news that will not please Esteban Ocon. Candidate for a position at McLaren next year, the Frenchman sees Lando Norris cut him off. The British firm has just announced that Carlos Sainz's teammate next year would be the 18-year-old Briton, darling of Zak Brown, the director. And this after announcing this morning the departure of Stoffel Vandoorne.

A member of the McLaren Young Driver Program since 2017, Norris was until then a test and simulator driver and has already been involved in tests conducted in Abu Dhabi, Barcelona and Hungary, but also during EL1 of the Grand Prix of Belgium and Italy, last Friday. “ It's a dream come true, admits the person concerned.

For the remainder of the 2018 season, I will focus fully on Formula 2, my goal being to take the crown before joining McLaren in short time. It will be complicated, but I will fight as much as possible in the last four races to go (Russia and Abu Dhabi. Editor’s note). » A championship in which he currently occupies second place, 22 points behind leader George Russell.

The McLaren squad is now complete, It remains to be seen what the future of Esteban Ocon will be like, which sees the doors closing one after the other. Surprising, not to say unfair, given what he showed again at Monza last weekend.