escaped unhurt after a heavy crash in observe on the season-opening .
The 19-year-old, making his full-time debut with after three races as a reserve final 12 months, misplaced management of his automobile popping out of the high-speed flip 10 part.
His automobile entered the gravel after a snap of oversteer, earlier than the automobile spun into the wall with one tyre coming unfastened from the automobile.
Bearman, who hails from Chelmsford in Essex, shortly let his race engineer that he was OK, earlier than including: “I’m sorry.”
The crash stopped the primary observe session in Melbourne for 10 minutes, with Lando Norris topping the timesheets for McLaren late on.
Carlos Sainz was second-fastest, with Charles Leclerc third-quickest. Lewis Hamilton, in his first grand prix session as a Ferrari driver, may solely end twelfth.
Talking about Bearman’s crash, Sky Sports activities pundit Martin Brundle mentioned: “He simply missed the apex, ran huge. Was in all probability a bit too gun-ho.
“It was somewhat bit overconfident and it’ll have knocked a few of his confidence. He’ll lose some monitor time this weekend.”
Bearman, who impressed for Ferrari in Saudi Arabia final 12 months earlier than two extra appearances for Haas, instructed The Impartial of his ambitions to turn out to be a F1 world champion sooner or later.
“My final purpose is to have a really lengthy profession in F1,” he mentioned.
“It’s my final ardour and I understand how fortunate I’m to be on this scenario. I need to show that I deserve it and, in the end, I need to turn out to be a world champion.
“However my future in the intervening time lies with Haas and my important purpose now could be to simply drive quick and ship nice outcomes.
“And from there? Let’s see the place that brings us.”
It stays to be seen whether or not Haas can restore Bearman’s automobile in time for the second observe session at 5am (GMT) on Friday.
