Ollie Bearman has been reflecting on the first half of his rookie campaign in F1, with the Briton admitting that he has had to learn from \u201ccostly mistakes\u201d along the way.<\/p>\n
After making three \u2018super-sub\u2019 appearances for Ferrari<\/a> and Haas<\/a> during 2024 \u2013 claiming points on two of these outings \u2013 Bearman made his full-time debut on the grid this season with Haas.<\/p>\n The 20-year-old currently sits in 19th place of the Drivers’ Championship<\/a> on eight points, having scored on four occasions which has included three double points finishes alongside team mate Esteban Ocon<\/a>.<\/p>\n With the Hungarian Grand Prix marking the final race before F1\u2019s traditional summer break, Bearman was asked during the weekend to sum up the first half of his season, both for himself and the team.<\/p>\n \u201cI think for both of us, it\u2019s been a few missed opportunities,\u201d he answered. \u201cThere have been some very costly mistakes from my side, which we\u2019ve had to learn from, but the car has been really good in the previous two races.<\/p>\n \u201cWe managed to score some points in Spa, which was great, but still, that was the opportunity to do more. So that\u2019s what we\u2019ll be targeting for the next few races.\u201d<\/p>\n Bearman is one of a number of rookies on the grid this season, alongside the likes of Kimi Antonelli<\/a>, Isack Hadjar<\/a> and Gabriel Bortoleto<\/a>.<\/p>\n When pushed on whether this year\u2019s new arrivals are the best prepared in the sport\u2019s history, the Haas driver responded: \u201cI would say so. I was lucky to do some races, others had a lot of testing, which prepared us well.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I also think that the off-track preparation, as in simulator work, and all of the time that we spend as a reserve driver and everything like that, even if you\u2019re not driving the real car, it prepares you incredibly well. So I think we\u2019re incredibly prepared.<\/p>\n \u201cBut on the other hand, I think that all of us as a collective group are doing pretty well as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Bearman has been reflecting on the first half of his rookie campaign in F1, with the Briton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-68625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}