Ollie Bearman admits that he “lost all level of confidence in the car” during the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend, as he and team mate Esteban Ocon failed to reach the points for Haas.<\/p>\n
The American team have been on a tough run of form as neither Bearman<\/a> nor Ocon<\/a> has scored points since Monaco fives races ago at the start of June.<\/p>\n The team’s fortunes looked unlikely to change last weekend at the Hungaroring, with Ocon P15 and Bearman P17 on the grid, before the pair ultimately went backwards in the race and finished P16 and P19 respectively.<\/p>\n “It was certainly a very long day as we were probably anticipating. The lack of Qualifying pace was almost exacerbated in race trim. So much sliding and degradation,” said Bearman, who was also handed a five-second penalty for ignoring blue flags.<\/p>\n “On top of that, I couldn’t overtake so I got stuck and didn’t have any pace anyways. We need to understand why Spa was so good and why this weekend has been so bad because the feeling has been completely the opposite. I lost all level of confidence in the car.<\/p>\n “I haven’t done a lap this weekend and felt good in the car. We think we understand why but we have to look long and hard through things over the summer break.”<\/p>\n