Oliver Bearman confirmed he’s making progress at an “wonderful” price after claiming a shock fourth place in Mexico, stated Haas workforce principal Ayao Komatsu.
The end result equalled the workforce’s finest ever end result, which was beforehand achieved by Romain Grosjean within the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix.
Bearman made his debut as a rookie in a apply session with Haas on the Mexican Grand Prix two years in the past. He grew to become a full-time driver this yr and Komatsu stated his “price of rising is wonderful” in his first season.
“We all the time noticed big expertise and each single time we simply are studying and we’re bettering after which since Singapore he’s been placing weekends collectively,” Komatsu instructed the official Formulation 1 channel.
“In Austin, there was a few issues within the dash [race] and [grand prix] however apart from that he was mega. And right here, what can I say? He hasn’t put a foot improper, has he? It’s simply wonderful.”
Bearman gained a number of locations in the beginning then capitalised on an incident forward of him to cross Max Verstappen and George Russell. He misplaced a place to Verstappen by making a second pit cease however out-ran Oscar Piastri and the 2 Mercedes drivers to complete fourth.
Komatsu stated they couldn’t afford to danger leaving Bearman on a one-stop. “Within the second stint, once we had been forward of these Mercedes guys, after all at that time we had been making an attempt to go for one-stop, managing tyres to verify we obtained the tyres on the finish,” he defined. “That was nonetheless our baseline.
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“Then Max [pitted] and when these guys began changing into two stops, for me it was about danger administration. For what we’re combating for, we actually wanted to safe P4, after which, that was the perfect probability to cowl after which go for it.
“Then once more, after that pit cease, we had been combating in opposition to Russell and Piastri. Mercedes-Benz and McLaren, what a privilege to struggle these guys. The entire workforce’s completed a unbelievable job.”
“It was only a massive workforce effort,” he added. “We’ve all the time been there this season, combating, after which by no means had an enormous end result.
“However what a workforce effort. Ollie drove unbelievable. The tyre guys gave us fully the proper info, the technique guys did an incredible job, race engineer, efficiency engineer, everybody giving the proper info to the driving force, speaking.”
Esteban Ocon accomplished an awesome day for Haas by ending ninth. “Lastly, lastly we managed to get an enormous end result, after which to get each drivers within the factors is simply wonderful,” stated Komatsu.
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