Afrigather British teenager Oliver Bearman will drive for Haas on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix instead of the banned Kevin Magnussen, the workforce have confirmed.
Magnussen was handed a one-race ban after selecting up his twelfth penalty level inside a 12-month span on the Italian Grand Prix, having been adjudged to have precipitated a collision with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly.
Bearman, 19, has already been signed by Haas for subsequent season and, as one of many workforce’s reserve drivers for this marketing campaign, was the apparent option to step up.
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The race in Baku can be Bearman’s second in F1, after he impressively deputised for Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz at quick discover at this yr’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, ending seventh.
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Check out the perfect moments from reserve driver Oliver Bearman’s debut race weekend for Ferrari the place he stole the present ending in a superb seventh place
As Haas confirmed the choice on Friday, Bearman stated: “It is positively extra of a problem stepping in to race as a reserve driver, with restricted prep-time and so forth, however I am within the lucky place of getting accomplished it earlier within the yr with Ferrari, so I can not less than name on that have.
“I’ve additionally had 4 FP1 classes with Haas within the VF-24 already this season, so undoubtedly that can even show to be precious in tackling the total race weekend in Baku. The workforce is in good type in the intervening time and I am going to do my finest to be ready with the time we now have accessible. The goal is to get on the market and have a strong weekend in Azerbaijan.”
In preparation for his rookie F1 marketing campaign, Bearman has already featured in 4 observe classes for Haas this season, including to 2 from the earlier yr.
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Oliver Bearman sealed his first win of the yr, triumphing within the F2 Dash across the Purple Bull Ring
The Ferrari Academy driver can also be contesting his second season in Formulation 2, and claimed his second race victory of the season at Monza.
Haas workforce principal Ayao Komatsu stated: “I am excited that Ollie can be driving the VF-24 alongside Nico in Baku. He is already proven nice promise in his FP1 outings and post-season check, and he carried out very effectively when he drove for Scuderia Ferrari in Saudi Arabia, selecting up factors within the course of.
“That is one other glorious alternative for each Ollie and the workforce to work collectively, this time all through a whole race weekend, and he could not ask for higher teammate than Nico to supply him with a reference.”
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British teenager Oliver Bearman has signed a multi-year contract with Haas and can be a everlasting fixture on the 2025 Formulation 1 grid
Why was Magnussen banned?
Magnussen turns into the primary driver to fall foul of the 12 penalty-point restrict ruling because it was launched in 2014.
Romain Grosjean was the final driver to be banned for a race after inflicting a multi-car collision on the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix.
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Haas workforce principal Ayao Komatsu says they’ve to simply accept Kevin Magnussen’s ban for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with Oliver Bearman set to exchange him
The stewards deemed Magnussen was “wholly in charge” for inflicting contact with Gasly at Monza’s second chicane and that the Dane didn’t drive in a “secure and managed method by means of the manoeuvre”.
He acquired a 10-second time penalty, which knocked him down from ninth to tenth within the last classification, however extra crucially the 2 penalty factors that took him over the restrict.
Magnussen had put himself in a harmful place by shortly amassing penalty factors in the beginning of the 2024 season.
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Haas driver Kevin Magnussen collided with Pierre Gasly through the Italian Grand Prix which is able to end in him lacking the following race of the season in Azerbaijan after accumulating too many penalty factors
He picked up three for inflicting a collision with Williams’ Alex Albon in Saudi Arabia, then two extra for a collision with RB’s Yuki Tsunoda in China.
Magnussen then picked up 5 factors in a single weekend on the Miami Grand Prix, receiving three for leaving the monitor with out justifiable cause when defending Lewis Hamilton within the Dash, after which two extra for a collision with Logan Sargeant within the full-distance race.
Formulation 1 leaves mainland Europe for Baku and the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on September 13-15, reside on Sky Sports activities F1. Stream each F1 race and extra with a NOW Sports activities Month Membership – No contract, cancel anytime
