Four days ago, Esteban Ocon was taking victory in race one of the new GP3 Series season, but quickly made the switch to F1 power after accepting a call-up to run with Force India in the Barcelona group test. The French youngster was equally quickly snapped up by Mercedes after Lotus allowed him to slip from its ranks of development drivers, and the Three Pointed Star wasted little time in helping secure an F1 outing with one of its customer teams. Some 94 laps later, Ocon had followed GP2's Nick Yelloly in having played a part in Force India's development programme, working to generate an enormous amount of aero data using special instrumentation all over the VJM08. “It has been a pretty...
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