Oliver Bearman's eye-catching F1 debut has been lauded by the head of Ferrari's young driver programme.
Despite only having a couple hours’ notice and a single hour of practice to prepare himself, Bearman grabbed the headlines as he qualified 11th, before finishing seventh to score points on his grand prix debut.“If you’d written the script, you would have balked a bit at the final result. You’d have said, ‘Yeah, let’s be realistic’.
“That’s very, very intimidating for anybody. From our point of view, we’re just very proud of how well he’s integrated with the team, and how well the team has supported him. “What you see is what we knew he was capable of. But, boy, I didn’t expect that, under these circumstances.”Asked if it was the best F1 driver debut he had ever seen, Clear responded: “I suppose you would all say that I’m a bit biased, and Jacques had won an IndyCar championship when he got in an F1 car, but obviously he put it on pole in Melbourne and he would have won that race if Adrian hadn’t told us to move over and let Damon win, in 1996.
“I was convinced before that,” he said. “The fact that Fred was brave enough to put him in this car this weekend, under the circumstances, speaks volumes for what we’ve seen of him already. “But the way he’s approached the weekend, the way he approached the race step by step… you’ve got to get out of the gate, off the grid, you’ve got to get round Turns 1 and 2 alongside some fairly feisty opposition who are going to get their elbows out. He did that cleanly. We said, ‘If he comes around the first lap with all four wheels still on, we’ll be really happy’.
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