British teenager Oliver Bearman will drive for Haas on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix rather than the banned Kevin Magnussen, the workforce have confirmed.
Magnussen was handed a one-race ban after selecting up his twelfth penalty level inside a 12-month span on the Italian Grand Prix, having been adjudged to have induced a collision with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly.
Bearman, 19, has already been signed by Haas for subsequent season and, as one of many workforce’s reserve drivers for this marketing campaign, was the plain option to step up.
The race in Baku will likely be Bearman’s second in F1, after he impressively deputised for Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz at quick discover at this yr’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, ending seventh.
As Haas confirmed the choice on Friday, Bearman stated: “It is positively extra of a problem stepping in to race as a reserve driver, with restricted prep-time and so forth, however I am within the lucky place of getting finished it earlier within the yr with Ferrari, so I can a minimum of name on that have.
“I’ve also had four FP1 sessions with Haas in the VF-24 already this season, so undoubtedly that will also prove to be valuable in tackling the full race weekend in Baku. The team is in good form at the moment and I’ll do my best to be prepared with the time we have available. The aim is to get out there and have a solid weekend in Azerbaijan.”
In preparation for his rookie F1 marketing campaign, Bearman has already featured in 4 apply periods for Haas this season, including to 2 from the earlier yr.
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Oliver Bearman sealed his first win of the yr, triumphing within the F2 Dash across the Pink Bull Ring
The Ferrari Academy driver can be contesting his second season in System 2, and claimed his second race victory of the season at Monza.
Haas workforce principal Ayao Komatsu stated: “I’m excited that Ollie will be driving the VF-24 alongside Nico in Baku. He’s already shown great promise in his FP1 outings and post-season test, and he performed very well when he drove for Scuderia Ferrari in Saudi Arabia, picking up points in the process.
“That is one other glorious alternative for each Ollie and the workforce to work collectively, this time all through a complete race weekend, and he could not ask for higher teammate than Nico to offer him with a reference.”
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British teenager Oliver Bearman has signed a multi-year contract with Haas and will likely be a everlasting fixture on the 2025 System 1 grid
Why was Magnussen banned?
Magnussen turns into the primary driver to fall foul of the 12 penalty-point restrict ruling because it was launched in 2014.
Romain Grosjean was the final driver to be banned for a race after inflicting a multi-car collision on the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix.
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Haas workforce principal Ayao Komatsu says they’ve to simply accept Kevin Magnussen’s ban for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix with Oliver Bearman set to interchange him
The stewards deemed Magnussen was “wholly to blame” for inflicting contact with Gasly at Monza’s second chicane and that the Dane didn’t drive in a “safe and controlled manner through the manoeuvre”.
He acquired a 10-second time penalty, which knocked him down from ninth to tenth within the ultimate classification, however extra crucially the 2 penalty factors that took him over the restrict.
Magnussen had put himself in a harmful place by shortly amassing penalty factors in the beginning of the 2024 season.
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Haas driver Kevin Magnussen collided with Pierre Gasly through the Italian Grand Prix which is able to end in him lacking the following race of the season in Azerbaijan after accumulating too many penalty factors
He picked up three for inflicting a collision with Williams’ Alex Albon in Saudi Arabia, then two extra for a collision with RB’s Yuki Tsunoda in China.
Magnussen then picked up 5 factors in a single weekend on the Miami Grand Prix, receiving three for leaving the monitor with out justifiable purpose when defending Lewis Hamilton within the Dash, after which two extra for a collision with Logan Sargeant within the full-distance race.
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