Oliver Bearman marks himself out as a star of the future in Formula 1 on his last-minute debut for Ferrari at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Oliver Bearman marked himself out as a star of the future in Formula 1 on his last-minute debut for Ferrari at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
In the end, qualifying did not go quite to plan. After a strong start, Bearman admitted his session became a bit "messy". "And, yeah, to be P11, I think only at the time 0.6secs off , that is more than I think you could have asked from him. In the end, he was clearly a little disappointed by the outcome, but he, too, seemed to get the big picture.
Bearman had not quite come in cold. He enjoyed two practice sessions for the Haas team at grands prix towards the end of last year, and as Ferrari reserve driver has spent quite some time in the team's simulator working on this year's car."But there's been quite a lot of work done on the simulator and I'm really happy also to see that straight away he found the rhythm because that means that also the guys at the simulator are doing a great job.
"We didn't have much time to speak. The only thing I've told him when he came this morning, I was like: 'Are you excited?' And he was like: 'I cannot wait.' Which, I expected this answer, and it was good to see the excitement for him for his first race in Ferrari."He said: "I have a lot to go through and analysis - longer runs, starts and pit stop things to work on.
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