Oliver Bearman back in F1 with Haas as replacement for suspended Kevin Magnussen

Bearman signed in July to race for Haas in 2025 but he’ll make an early appearance with his new team in Baku next week because Magnussen is serving a one-race suspension.

Published : Sep 06, 2024 15:35 IST , Kannapolis (North Carolina, USA) - 1 MIN READ

Ferrari’s reserve driver Oliver Bearman ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix.
Ferrari’s reserve driver Oliver Bearman ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
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Ferrari’s reserve driver Oliver Bearman ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix. | Photo Credit: REUTERS

British teenager Oliver Bearman is returning to Formula 1 ahead of schedule after the Haas team said on Friday he will replace the suspended Kevin Magnussen for next week’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Bearman signed in July to race for Haas in 2025 but he’ll make an early appearance with his new team in Baku next week because Magnussen is serving a one-race suspension for accumulating too many penalty points.

The 19-year-old Bearman usually races in Formula 2 but was impressive as he finished in seventh place in his F1 debut for Ferrari at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in March after Carlos Sainz Jr. was sidelined with appendicitis.

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“It’s definitely more of a challenge stepping in to race as a reserve driver, with limited prep-time and so on, but I’m in the fortunate position of having done it earlier in the year with Scuderia Ferrari, so I can at least call on that experience,” Bearman said Friday in a Haas statement.

Bearman, who is a Ferrari academy driver, is one of two reserve drivers at Haas this year. The other, Pietro Fittipaldi, competes in IndyCar, which has a race next week in Nashville.

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