Esteban Ocon and Ollie Bearman were left delighted after claiming a double points finish for Haas in the Sprint at the Belgian Grand Prix, with the pair converting their respective grid slots of P5 and P7 into a total tally of six points.<\/p>\n
While Max Verstappen<\/a> fended off the McLaren<\/a> pair of Oscar Piastri<\/a> and Lando Norris<\/a> in the battle for the lead \u2013 ahead of Ferrari<\/a>\u2019s Charles Leclerc<\/a> in fourth \u2013 Ocon<\/a> was best of the rest in fifth place, a showing that the Frenchman is aiming to replicate in Saturday\u2019s Qualifying.<\/p>\n \u201c[I\u2019m] super pleased with this,\u201d Ocon smiled after the Sprint<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s six points for the team in total on a Saturday, so it\u2019s a really good result. We can be obviously satisfied with this.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cars in front were the cars that are out of reach for the moment, with Charles just being quicker than us, so we finished on top of our race basically, and overall it was fantastic.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to do it all again obviously for this afternoon which is not going to be an easy task, but we\u2019ll push hard to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Bearman<\/a> was similarly pleased with the outcome of the Sprint, in which he held onto seventh place despite facing a challenge from Racing Bulls<\/a>\u2019 Isack Hadjar<\/a> behind.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a good race,\u201d the Briton said. \u201cNice to score some points, both cars in the points in a Sprint race which is no mean feat. It was a fight out there for sure.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we lacked a little bit of pace, the rear wing that we have means that we\u2019re very difficult to overtake, so on the straights we were absolutely flying.<\/p>\n \u201cIt does make the car balance then a bit difficult over a longer stint so we need to see what we do for tomorrow, also with rain in the forecast, but I\u2019m happy. It\u2019s been a while since we scored, so it\u2019s nice to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esteban Ocon and Ollie Bearman were left delighted after claiming a double points finish for Haas in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-25187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}