Sunday’s 68-lap race<\/a> with the prospect of points looking difficult.<\/p>\nThe threat of rain and a low-grip surface made conditions challenging, though Bearman made up six positions before the end of the opening lap, which proved crucial.<\/p>\n
“Slippery, definitely very slippery,” described Bearman when asked about the conditions.<\/p>\n
“Was tough, was definitely very challenging. I elected to start on the used soft just because I felt like it would help me probably on Lap 1, but we ended up doing like three formation laps so I probably didn’t benefit very much from that.”<\/p>\n
After a strong start and with retirements for the likes of Mercedes’ George Russell, McLaren’s Lando Norris and Williams’ Alex Albon, Bearman was able to claim his third points finish in a Grand Prix this season.<\/p>\n
“Honestly, I feel like we didn’t really deserve that today based on our performance but we’ll take it,” said Bearman.<\/p>\n
“There’s been other weekends where we’ve probably felt like we deserved it a bit more and didn’t get it.<\/p>\n
“Swings and roundabouts, but generally it’s been a really challenging weekend for us, as I’ve been complaining about every interview. But to get points is good.<\/p>\n
“Bit unlucky, I think we could have got even more points honestly. We had a slow pit stop so we need to understand exactly why before Monaco.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Bearman believes that “we didn’t really deserve” to take a point away from the Canadian Grand Prix,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-696762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}