Ferrari Formula 1 boss Fred Vasseur says reserve driver Oliver Bearman matched “unrealistic” expectations with a faultless maiden race weekend at the Saudi Arabian GP, despite missing two practice sessions.
Bearman was called upon just a few hours before FP3 on Friday after it became clear that regular driver Carlos Sainz had appendicitis. Having qualified 11th, the young Brit had a problem-free maiden start and pitstop, and he didn’t put a foot wrong despite Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton threatening him on soft tyres in the closing laps. He eventually finished seventh, just behind George Russell.
In quali, he missed Q3 by a couple of hundredths, and in the race today I was a bit nervous before the race because you have so many things to manage in F1 with the starting procedure, the pitstop, the steering wheel. It was not an easy one.
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