“I was shitting myself going side by side with Max [Verstappen],” Oliver Bearman confessed in the Mexico Grand Prix post-script, mere minutes after clinching his best Formula 1 finish as he crossed the line fourth. That trepidation, to use a more watershed-friendly euphemism, was not evident on-track, as the gravity of the situation was confined to within his blue-and-chartreuse crash helmet.
Bearman, of course, was reliving his overtake on the four-time champion, one where he started his pounce on Max Verstappen at Turn 4. As the Dutchman had been put out of position in his battle with Lewis Hamilton, he was well aware of the presence of George Russell as the Mercedes driver looked to buy in on their scrap over third place and wrest fourth from Verstappen. As such, the Red Bull covered him off out of Turn 5, which opened the seas for Bearman to thrust his Haas down the inside.
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