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The grandson of Spaniards who came to live in Normandy during the post-war immigration wave, Esteban Ocon took up karting "a bit by chance" during a family weekend in a multi-sport complex. "I was four years old, I got in without asking anyone, and once I started I didn't stop, I dodged people as if they were cones", he remembers, with the satisfaction of someone who has seen his dream come true. We were dealing with a very mature boy for his age, with a rather difficult life experience," says Gwen Lagrue. “He had a deep determination, rare even, which is one of his strong points today." At the same time, his mechanic father, who ran a garage with his mother in Beaubray, in the south of the Eure, gave him a kart for Christmas.  "I made choices that could have been catastrophic, I don't want young people reading this to follow my example. It worked for me, but it won't work for everyone," [Ocon] says. Esteban Ocon, va vite et deviens