Oliver Bearman reflects on Lewis Hamilton battle after making F1 history

Oliver Bearman create൩d F1 history following a late battle with Lewis Hamilton.

Oliver Bearman
Oliver Bearman

Haas’ Oliver Bearman created a slice of F1 history by becoming the first driver to score poi𒁏nts for two different teams in his first two grands prix.

Stepping in as a replacement for Haas regular Kevin Magnussen, who was serving a o🀅ne-race ban for accumulating 12 penalty points over a 12-month period, Bearman claimed the final point on offer ꦡin Baku by finishing 10th.

The 19-year-𝕴old Briton, who will race full-time in F1 next year with the American outfit, was promoted into the points after Sergi💝o Perez and Carlos Sainz dramatically crashed out late on.

After being overtaken by Mercedes legend Lewis Hamilton in the clos𒐪ing laps, Bearman praised the seven-time world champion for the “very clean but hard” battle.

“You know when you go around the outside that he’s going to🍷 leave you space, which ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚis a nice feeling,” Bearman explained.

“Like in Turn 1, I knew that he wasn’t going ♏to put me in a wall, which is a bit less su♈re with some other drivers. That’s a nice feeling and it’s always very clean but hard when I was racing him.”

Bearman continued: “I was really pushing hard for some laps to overtake Franco and my tyres were getting re෴ally hot. It 🌄was exactly at that point that he pounced on me and could overtake me quite easily.

“After that, I needed a few laps and I ♛caught him back up and was almost catching the DRS again. It’s annoyi🐷ng that I let him overtake but you can’t make little mistakes with a guy like that behind.”

Bearman snuck ahead of Haas teammat𓃲e Nico Hulkenberg after the German sloweꦓd, fearing he had picked up damage from the incident involving Perez and Sainz.

“ღIt went green again and I managed to get him with Lewis,” Bearman added.

“ജIt was an overtake. I’m sorry for him. He had a problem to lose the position 𒊎also to Franco, but I’m happy to take the point.”

Bear✱man score🌳d points on his F1 debut in Saudi Arabia as a stand-in for Ferrari, finishing seventh. 

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