Esteban Ocon took eight points from the 2017 United States Grand Prix. In the six visits since he has taken none.
Eight starts, eight points, a best finish of sixth that is now nine years old. The shape is almost identical to his Baku record, where one early afternoon also accounts for the whole total.
One good year, a disqualification and a pit-lane start
The 2016 debut came with Manor from twenty second on the grid and finished eighteenth, two laps down, which was roughly the ceiling of that car.
2017 was the breakthrough: sixth on the grid for Force India, sixth at the flag, eight points. It remains the only time he has finished a United States Grand Prix inside the top ten.
2018 should have added to it. He qualified sixth again and was disqualified after the race, leaving a nineteenth on the sheet and nothing scored. A mechanical problem ended 2021 and left him nineteenth again.
2022 is the oddity. He started from the pit lane, gave up the entire grid and still came home eleventh, one place outside the points. Eighteenth in 2023 and 2024 followed, then fifteenth in 2025, his first Austin weekend with Haas.
Esteban Ocon's United States GP record year by year
Every United States Grand Prix start, with the grid slot it came from and what it was worth.
| Season | Grid | Finish | Points | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 22 | P18 | 0 | Manor Marussia |
| 2017 | 6 | P6 | 8 | Force India |
| 2018 | 6 | P19 | 0 | Force India |
| 2021 | 11 | P19 | 0 | Alpine |
| 2022 | pit lane | P11 | 0 | Alpine |
| 2023 | 8 | P18 | 0 | Alpine |
| 2024 | 12 | P18 | 0 | Alpine |
| 2025 | 17 | P15 | 0 | Haas |
Nine years since the only score
No win, no podium, no pole and no fastest lap. Twice he has qualified sixth here, and those two weekends produced his only points finish and his disqualification.
He goes again on 25 October in the VF-26. The pit-lane drive in 2022 says the race will reward patience from him, and the rest of the table says it has not often had the chance.
