Former Method 1 driver and Sky Sports activities F1 analyst Karun Chandhok has urged Ollie Bearman to maintain reminding Ferrari that he’s prepared for when a seat turns into out there on the Maranello outfit.
Thrown into the deep finish on the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as he stood in for Carlos Sainz, Bearman impressed by scoring factors on his debut. His efficiency, and additional outings with Haas in the identical 12 months, secured him a full-time seat with the American outfit in 2025.
Throughout his rookie season, he outperformed his skilled team-mate Esteban Ocon and has continued to take action within the first three rounds of 2026. This, alongside along with his long-standing relationship with the Fred Vasseur-led group as a Ferrari Driver Academy member, has linked the 20-year-old driver to a future contract with Ferrari.
“Ollie Bearman has achieved an excellent job, actually picked up from the place he left off final season the place he outperformed Esteban Ocon,” Chandhok defined in the course of the Sky Sports activities F1 Present.
“I believe Haas has achieved job. They’ve come out of the blocks with a bang. They’re one of many smallest groups when it comes to the workforce on the grid, and so they’ve come out with a automotive that’s arguably better of the remainder behind the highest groups.
Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Group
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“Ollie’s simply bought to maintain reminding Ferrari that he is there. That is his aim, proper? Is to remind Ferrari that when the day comes when Lewis [Hamilton] decides he is had sufficient or Charles [Leclerc] decides he would possibly need to transfer on, Ollie’s there in full place to take that seat. And up to now, you’d must say he is achieved an incredible job of it.”
Bearman presently sits seventh within the drivers’ standings with 17 factors, whereas Ocon is fifteenth with one level.
The subsequent race is the Miami Grand Prix, which is able to happen on the Exhausting Rock Stadium from 1-3 Might.
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