Born and raised in Normandy to a working class family, Ocon began competitive kart racing aged nine, winning several national and international titles.

A member of the Mercedes Junior Team since 2015, Ocon made his Formula One debut at the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix with Manor, replacing Rio Haryanto for the remainder of the 2016 season.

Retaining his seat for 2021, Ocon partnered Fernando Alonso at the re-branded Alpine, taking his maiden victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

After a less successful 2022 campaign, during which he became the first teammate to outscore Alonso in the championship since Jenson Button in 2015, Ocon achieved his third podium at the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix.

In 2024—his final season at Alpine—Ocon achieved his maiden fastest lap in the United States, followed by a fourth career podium at the rain-affected São Paulo Grand Prix.

In 2023 Ocon began a relationship with model, social media influencer and former Miss Côte d'Azur Flavy Barla having split with his previous girlfriend Elena Berri (whom he had started dating in 2018) earlier in 2023.

[14] He recorded one pole position and won two races including at Circuit Paul Ricard, finishing the season in third place behind Pierre Gasly and Oliver Rowland.

[19] Ocon was crowned FIA Formula 3 European champion with three races remaining, ahead of Tom Blomqvist and Max Verstappen.

Ocon drove for Mercedes-Benz in the first ten races of the 2016 DTM season, alongside his Formula One reserve driver role at Renault.

On 10 August 2016, Rio Haryanto was dropped from the backmarker Manor Racing team after his sponsors had failed to meet their contractual obligations.

[38] On 10 November 2016, Force India announced that they had signed Ocon for the 2017 season as part of his multi-year contract with Mercedes, with Sergio Pérez as his new teammate.

[46][47] Ocon started the Italian Grand Prix in third place after the Red Bull drivers faced penalties, the highest grid position of his career.

[53] At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, he was involved in a first-lap collision with Kimi Räikkönen that ended his race, whilst teammate Pérez went on to claim a podium finish.

[55] He recorded five more points finishes before the summer break, but retired from his home race, the French Grand Prix, after a first-lap collision with Pierre Gasly.

[60] Ocon was disqualified from eighth place at the United States Grand Prix after his car was found to have exceeded fuel flow limits.

[72] At the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, he was issued a grid penalty after impeding George Russell in qualifying and started fourteenth,[73] but improved to finish eighth in the race.

A virtual safety car (VSC) period followed, which third-placed Carlos Sainz Jr. and fourth-placed Ricciardo attempted to take advantage of by entering the pits.

He was soon overtaken by Sergio Pérez, however pit stop issues for the leading Mercedes cars allowed Ocon to claim his first Formula One podium by finishing second, Renault's best race result since 2010.

[88] Ocon was classified ninth at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix ahead of Alonso in tenth,[89][90] earning the team their first points under the Alpine name.

The Turkish Grand Prix took place in damp conditions and Ocon finished tenth having run the entire race distance on one set of intermediate-weather tyres.

[101] A collision with Antonio Giovinazzi at the United States Grand Prix broke Ocon's front wing and ultimately led to retirement.

[107] He qualified fifth and finished sixth at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix where a close battle with Alonso ended with Ocon being ordered by the team to hold his position.

[111] At the Spanish Grand Prix, Ocon qualified twelfth and finished seventh, ahead of Alonso, after holding off the fast-charging Lando Norris.

[113] At the British Grand Prix, Ocon qualified fifteenth due to battery issues and retired from the race with a fuel pump problem, despite the significant upgrade packages brought to the Alpine A522.

[122] He was involved in separate collisions with teammate Alonso in the São Paulo Grand Prix sprint, with the damage to his car dropping him to seventeenth place.

Running in tenth place at the final restart of the Australian Grand Prix, Ocon was involved in a heavy collision with teammate Gasly, who apologised for his role in the incident.

Ocon started sixteenth at the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, avoided collisions to improve to eighth on the first lap and climbed to fourth place by the end of the race.

[145] During the Canadian Grand Prix, Alpine imposed team orders forcing Ocon to give up P9 to Gasly, who was in better position to attack Daniel Ricciardo.

[148] Formula One's website reported that Alpine required Ocon to leave the team one race early in exchange for releasing him to Haas for the Abu Dhabi post-season test.

2010  E. Gutiérrez 2011  V. Bottas 2012  M. Evans 2013  D. Kvyat 2014  A. Lynn 2015  E. Ocon 2016  C. Leclerc 2017  G. Russell 2018  A. Hubert 2019  R. Shwartzman 2020  O. Piastri 2021  D. Hauger 2022  V. Martins 2023  G. Bortoleto 2024  L. Fornaroli