{"id":14867,"date":"2024-03-14T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/oliver-bearman-says-he-had-great-fun-on-f1-debut-at-saudi-arabian-grand-prix\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:33:32","slug":"oliver-bearman-says-he-had-great-fun-on-f1-debut-at-saudi-arabian-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/oliver-bearman-says-he-had-great-fun-on-f1-debut-at-saudi-arabian-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Bearman says he had &#8216;great fun&#8217; on F1 debut at Saudi Arabian Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bearman, who is the third youngest driver to start an F1 race, qualified 11th and held that position from the start, before losing a place after Lance Stroll&#8217;s crash led to an early safety car period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He passed Zhou Gunayu&#8217;s Sauber and then Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s Haas and went on to finish immediately ahead of fellow Britons Lando Norris, of McLaren, and Mercedes&#8217; Hamilton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was named driver of the day in the fans&#8217; vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bearman&#8217;s father David was in the Ferrari garage, nervously watching on, while among those to offer congratulations in the paddock afterwards was Spaniard Sainz, who was at the Jeddah circuit the day after he had surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bearman said that &#8220;mentally it was a difficult race&#8221; and physically he was &#8220;struggling too&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;I felt like I was a bit quicker than [Fernando] Alonso and [George] Russell in front but not enough to catch. I lost a lot of time trying to pass Hulkenberg, who used his experience to keep me back for more laps than he should have. That&#8217;s my bad but it was a good race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Especially my lower back and neck are hurting, these seats take a bit of fine-tuning and we didn&#8217;t have time to focus on that. It was a good motivation to finish the race quicker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bearman, from Chelmsford in Essex, started karting when he was eight years old. He made his single-seater debut in 2020, won both the Italian and German Formula 4 titles in 2021, finished third in his debut Formula 3 season in 2022 and was sixth in F2 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has been a member of the Ferrari driver academy since 2021 and drove two practice sessions for the Haas team in F1 last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/formula1\/68525700\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bearman, who is the third youngest driver to start an F1 race, qualified 11th and held that position from the start, before losing a place after Lance Stroll&#8217;s crash led to an early safety car period. He passed Zhou Gunayu&#8217;s Sauber and then Nico Hulkenberg&#8217;s Haas and went on to finish immediately ahead of fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14869,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867\/revisions\/14869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}