Manor’s Esteban Ocon Can Push Team to Bigger and Better Things in 2016 F1 Season

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Published: August 13, 2016

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When Manor scored their first point in more than two years in July's Austrian Grand Prix, they were determined to ensure they wouldn't face another long wait for their next visit to Formula One's top 10.

Pascal Wehrlein's logic-defying performance at the Red Bull Ring—where he spent 47 laps on the soft-compound tyres to finish 10th despite running last within 30 laps of the chequered flag—had gifted the team their first point since the late Jules Bianchi's ninth-place finish at Monaco 2014.

And after joining his colleagues for the obligatory photocall in the pit lane, racing director Dave Ryan vowed Manor would hunt for more, rather than defending a one-nil lead over Sauber in the battle of the back of the grid.



"We've got to go to every race with a view to finishing as high up as we can, and at the end of the year the points score will tell its own tale," he told Motorsport.com's Jonathan Noble. 

"We are not going to sit back now: this is only the start for us. We've got to push, and push, and push at every race."

It was one thing for Ryan to make such a bold statement following a landmark result in the team's history, but quite another for the former McLaren man to act upon his words—after he'd already revealed genuine aspirations of finally transforming Manor into a "really solid midfield team," per Reuters' Alan Baldwin.



That was why Manor's choice of driver to replace Rio Haryanto—whose sponsorship funding only covered the first half of 2016, as his manager told Baldwin—for the rest of this season was one of the most important decisions the team have had to make since emerging from administration 18 months ago.

Or, put another way, it offered them an opportunity to prove the new-look Manor are very different to the old Manor.

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