Ollie Bearman was left delighted with his work in Singapore, having scored “super important” points for Haas with his ninth place finish.<\/p>\n
The Briton<\/a> started solidly in the top 10 after making it to Q3 on Saturday evening for the first time since Silverstone. While he got away well, he found himself tangling with Isack Hadjar<\/a> at the start, which allowed Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso<\/a> to slip through, and that could have derailed his race.<\/p>\n However, the youngster managed to keep a feisty Nico Hulkenberg at bay in the early stages, not putting a foot wrong as he climbed back through the field after his pit stop to bag his team\u2019s first points since Zandvoort.<\/p>\n \u201cReally happy,\u201d was Bearman\u2019s take after the race. \u201cAfter Lap 1, a bit of an incident, dropped down to P10. Then I was under a lot of threat from Nico [Hulkenberg] behind who was very fast.<\/p>\n \u201cGenerally, on that first stint I was struggling a lot with car balance. We made a good step with the second [stint] and actually we were looking on for P8 because of Alonso\u2019s slow stop. Unfortunately, I lost a position to him, he seemed a bit quicker than us today but happy to score points.\u201d<\/p>\n Bearman acknowledged that while he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d not to put up more of a fight when Alonso started to come back through the field, the fact the Spaniard pulled a 10 second gap showed the Aston Martin<\/a> had more pace than the Haas<\/a> in Singapore.<\/p>\n He called his points \u201csuper important\u201d in what is an increasingly tight midfield battle, with ninth-placed Haas currently nine points adrift of Kick Sauber in the fight for P8 and the increase in prize money that place would mean.<\/p>\n \u201cOn a tough track we executed a great weekend,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n