Oliver Bearman has named the one driver he dreads to see the most in his rear-view mirrors during Grands Prix.<\/p>\n
After impressing in substitute appearances in the 2024 F1 season, Oliver Bearman<\/a> has endured a tough first half to his first full rookie season in the pinnacle of motorsport.<\/p>\n The full-time drive in 2025 has put the Brit alongside some of the heroes he grew up watching in F1, with Bearman highlighting the lessons he has \u2018learnt\u2019 from Lewis Hamilton<\/a> in his first season at Ferrari.<\/p>\n The lack of points can be attributed to the suboptimal performance of the Haas<\/a> VF-25, which left engineers racing to improve after Bearman \u2018brutally\u2019 proved their fears of the car not reacting well<\/a> in high-speed, long corners at the Spanish Grand Prix earlier this season.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Who is 2025 Haas driver Oliver Bearman? Everything to know<\/a><\/p>\n Oliver Bearman has to get his \u2018elbows out\u2019 when battling against Fernando Alonso<\/p>\n The Haas driver was asked on the P1 with Matt & Tommy podcast who the scariest driver to have behind him in a race is, to which Bearman replied, \u201cNo one\u2019s scary, but one that you know is going to give you a hard time is Fernando [Alonso].<\/p>\n \u201cWhenever I\u2019m starting around Fernando, I know that I\u2019m going to have to get my elbows out big time because he\u2019s a smart fox.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n It\u2019s no surprise that someone of Fernando Alonso<\/a>\u2018s calibre would strike a bit of fear into a rookie. The two-time world champion has a vast amount of experience under his belt, having entered a record 416 Grands Prix to Bearman\u2019s 15.<\/p>\n On exactly the same day that Bearman was born in 2005, Alonso secured a second-place finish at the Spanish Grand Prix during his first title-winning season driving against the likes of Michael Schumacher, Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0All to know about Haas F1 Team from team principal to Ferrari and Toyota ties<\/a><\/p>\n How have some of the F1 rookies fared at the midpoint of the 2025 season?<\/p>\n Andrea Kimi Antonelli<\/a> is currently the highest-placed rookie in the drivers\u2019 championship as we head towards the Belgian Grand Prix. Antonelli\u2019s highlight of the season came at the Canadian Grand Prix<\/a>, where he secured his first podium in F1 with a P3 finish.<\/p>\n PositionDriverPoints7Andrea Kimi Antonelli6311Isack Hadjar2116Liam Lawson1218Oliver Bearman619Gabriel Bortoleto420Franco Colapinto021*Jack Doohan*0*<\/p>\n Isack Hadjar<\/a> has been one of the most impressive rookies of the season, clinching multiple points-scoring finishes after an \u2019embarrassing\u2019 opening Australian Grand Prix for the Frenchman<\/a>, which saw him crash on the formation lap.<\/p>\n The Alpine drivers have been the least effective in their short stints so far in the team. Jack Doohan lasted six races before the Enstone-based constructor made the switch for Franco Colapinto, who hasn\u2019t done much better.<\/p>\n Now the Argentine\u2019s future at the team is in jeopardy, with Valtteri Bottas tipped to jump into Colapinto\u2019s seat at a moment\u2019s notice due to the 22-year-old\u2019s race-by-race contract.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Bearman has named the one driver he dreads to see the most in his rear-view mirrors during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[585,49,48,578,3018,576,577,7935,3030,82],"class_list":["post-9749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-aston-martin","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-haas","tag-oliver-bearman","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749","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=9749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}