Oliver Bearman’s late notification F1 presentation instead of Carlos Sainz in Saudi Arabia furnished Ferrari with a convenient reference as it weighs up the eventual fate of its lesser driver.
However, Mercedes can likewise gain from the 18-year-old’s trip as it surveys its own driver choices for life after Lewis Hamilton.
A typical speed of 155mph, around 27 corners, all fixed with walls. On the whole, the Jeddah Corniche circuit is “really difficult to bounce in on”, per triple F1 title holder Max Verstappen.
Let alone with no testing in another vehicle, show to the title’s most celebrated crew. That is the very circumstance in which 18-year-old English F2 star Oliver Bearman sparkled last end of the week in Saudi Arabia.
He’d been called up by Ferrari after what was initially remembered to be food contamination endured by standard driver Carlos Sainz ended up being a ruptured appendix and the Spaniard required a medical procedure.
Only two hours before FP3 for the Saudi Bedouin Terrific Prix, while he was on his way into the track to arrange tenth for Prema Dashing having topped F2 qualifying the earlier day, Ferrari Institute driver Bearman got the call: Sainz’s SF-24 was his to hustle.