Haas driver Oliver Bearman is expected to be \u2018fully ready\u2019 for the Miami Grand Prix after walking away from a 50G horror crash in Japan.<\/p>\n
Bearman limped away from his stricken Haas after hitting the barrier at the outside of Spoon Curve in an impact recorded at 50G when he was caught unaware by his closing speed on Franco Colapinto.<\/p>\n
Oliver Bearman Suzuka crash and Miami fitness update<\/p>\n
Want more PlanetF1.com coverage? Add us as a preferred source on Google<\/a> to your favourites list for news you can trust<\/p>\n Fighting Colapinto for position, Bearman<\/a> came flying up behind the Alpine driver into Spoon Curve.<\/p>\n His closing speed was some 50kph faster than what Colapinto was travelling at.<\/p>\n PlanetF1.com data expert Uros Radovanovic clocked Bearman at 308 km\/h<\/a> while Colapinto maintained a near-identical speed to that from the previous lap.<\/p>\n The difference therefore appears to be on Bearman\u2019s part, with the young Brit\u00a0caught unaware by the closing speed and forced into taking evasive action.<\/p>\n As he dived to the left of the Alpine he found himself on the grass, and lost control of his Haas VF-26 and went shooting across the track in front of Colapinto before slamming into the barrier sideways.<\/p>\n Bearman collided with the barrier with the impact recorded at 50G.<\/p>\n More on Oliver Bearman\u2019s huge Japanese GP crash<\/p>\n Oliver Bearman opens up on terrifying 50G Suzuka crash<\/a><\/p>\n Franco Colapinto explains \u2018really dangerous\u2019 Bearman crash speed difference<\/a><\/p>\n The Briton climbed from his stricken Haas but had to lean on two marshals as his right left wasn\u2019t able to bear his weight.<\/p>\n He was taken to the medical centre for X-rays, with Haas confirming that he had fortunately had suffered nothing more than a bruised knee.<\/p>\n With a month\u2019s break between Japan and Miami, following the cancellations of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, his team principal Ayao Komatsu believes Bearman will be back to full fitness for the Miami race.<\/p>\n \u201cHe is fine,\u201d Komatsu told Sky Sports News. \u201cThankfully, he\u2019s just got a bruised knee, nothing\u2019s broken.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really grateful that he came away with nothing too serious. He should be back fully ready for Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n The FIA acknowledged after Bearman\u2019s crash that the increased closing speeds of the F1 2026 cars were a contributing factor in the incident, the drivers having warned the governing body about such a scenario of closing speeds as recently as the Friday evening driver briefing in Japan.<\/p>\n It has led to calls for changes to the regulations as cars harvesting battery power and super clipping near the end of the straights have a notable speed difference to those still on full power and in straight line mode.<\/p>\n Komatsu, though, has again warned against a knee-jerk reaction.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re looking at it from all dimensions because, when we make changes, we\u2019ve got to make the correct ones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe cannot be making knee-jerk reaction changes and then a few races later be saying: \u2018That was the wrong option.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThe good thing is that the F1 community, all the teams, the FIA, F1, we\u2019re all working together in a really open and transparent manner, which I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen to this extent before.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m pretty confident that F1, as a community, we\u2019ll find the right solution to whatever things we need to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n Want to be the first to know exclusive information from the F1 paddock? Join our broadcast channel on WhatsApp<\/a> to get the scoop on the latest developments from our team of accredited journalists.<\/p>\n You can also subscribe to the PlanetF1 YouTube channel<\/a> for exclusive features, hear from our paddock journalists with stories from the heart of Formula 1 and much more!<\/p>\n