Motorsport.com understands that confirmation is imminent that the 19-year-old Frenchman will be taking over from Haryanto – who has run in well-publicised budgetary issues – and that Ocon will contest the final nine rounds of the championship.

Ocon has already taken part in several F1 free practice outings for Renault this year, plus a Silverstone test for Mercedes.

The Mercedes DTM racer, who won back-to-back titles in European Formula 3 and GP3, said at Hockenheim that he was ready to take his chance.

“If there is an opportunity anywhere, I would take it,” he said. “I would be ready, that’s for sure. I’ve been around for a long time now, driving quite a lot of cars, so if there is an opportunity I’d be happy to take it.”

Although the F1 calendar has no clashes with the DTM where he is racing this season, Ocon says any move up would make him reluctant to compete in both.

“For sure my goal is Formula 1,” he said. “I’m happy to be in DTM but I don’t want to stay there for too long. So if there was an opportunity in F1, I would push them [the management] to accept that.”