Esteban Ocon has specced himself a stormer: a $1.1 million Mansory Initiate built from the bones of a Lamborghini Revuelto and dressed like it wandered out of a carbon-fibre art gallery.
The Frenchman has been working with Mansory this year — their branding’s on his helmet — and the payoff is this stealthy, black marbled carbon Revuelto with sharp red detailing and his race number, 31, stamped on the arches. It’s the kind of spec that looks like it should come with its own pit crew.
Under the show, there’s plenty of go. Mansory’s tweaks lift the Revuelto’s 6.5-litre V12 from 814 bhp to 868 bhp on its own, while the hybrid system punches the combined figure to a silly 1,070 bhp. In other words: enough to make even modern F1 launch maps feel conservative on a Sunday drive.
Mansory, never shy about the theatre, calls its work a “bespoke masterpiece”, and it’s hard to argue when you see the finish. The firm is better known for wild carbon kits and outrageous power hikes, but it also dabbles in armoured vehicles, luxury jet cabins and boats. Ocon’s build sits somewhere between road car and statement piece, which is probably the point — and why the original Revuelto’s roughly $600,000 price tag swelled to around $1.1 million.
There’s a current through the paddock these days: drivers either curating their garages like galleries or clearing space entirely. Daniel Ricciardo, for instance, recently put his own Aston Martin Valkyrie up for sale — car 89 of 150, with over $100,000 in options — a hypercar that launched with a sticker between roughly $2.7m and $3.4m. Lewis Hamilton has been much choosier for a while, trimming away anything that didn’t feel like “art” in his words, even with headliners like the AMG One, a bespoke Pagani Zonda 760 LH, and a ’67 Shelby GT500 in the mix.
Ocon, though, has always had a taste for the tailored. The Initiate reads like a personal brand extension: stealth-black, red pinstripes, race number, the whole lot tied back to his on-track identity. It’s not subtle — Mansory rarely is — but it is cohesive, and that’s half the battle with tuner specials. It looks like a proper collaboration rather than a parts catalogue emptied onto a very expensive canvas.
Will he daily it? Doubtful. But as a post-race reset, it’ll do just fine. Fire it up, let the V12 clear its throat, lean on the e-boost and watch the horizon arrive a lot sooner than scheduled. Even in a 2025 field stuffed with hybrid trickery, it’s a reminder that nothing quite matches the drama of a big, angry twelve-cylinder when it’s had a little extra attention.
For the rest of us, it’s another glimpse into the drivers’ off-track world: sponsorships turned into toys, toys turned into rolling signatures. Ocon’s signature just happens to be 1,070 bhp written in marbled carbon.
