Haas System 1 driver Oliver Bearman revealed that he did three or 4 days of filming with the Netflix Drive to Survive crew, solely to seek out that none of it had been included, joking that the footage went “straight within the bin”.
The Briton made an look on the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Present with Greg James forward of the 2026 F1 season and was joined by the movie crew. “Sure, however do not get your hopes up as a result of I’ve executed about three or 4 days of filming with them. I’ve by no means seen a single second of it,” Bearman instructed James.
“I used to be so excited the primary time I did a complete day of filming with them,” he added. “Not a second. Not a second. Straight within the bin.”
Bearman is at present making ready for his second season in F1 with Haas. He completed his rookie yr with the American outfit thirteenth within the drivers’ standings with 41 factors, two positions increased than his skilled team-mate Esteban Ocon.
“It’s unimaginable to gauge the place we’re going to be proper now,” Bearman stated throughout pre-season testing in Bahrain. “Every part I’m seeing from the crew is optimistic, however we don’t understand how we stack up, and we received’t know till qualifying in Australia.
“Even then, I really feel like within the first few races reliability goes to be enjoying an enormous issue. There are going to be groups and folks making errors with these new laws. It’s going to be robust to ascertain a real pecking order.”
Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Staff
Picture by: Alastair Staley / LAT Pictures through Getty Pictures
He added: “I’m heading right into a regulation change for the primary time in my life, actually. Final yr was an enormous step for me, however I believe even from the start, we knew that if we put the automotive in the precise window, we have been nonetheless going to have the ability to battle for factors, and we had an concept of the competitiveness of the automotive.
“That lack of awareness heading into 2026 is sweet and unhealthy, as on one facet I really feel like we will actually have an effect immediately, but in addition it’s horrible not realizing.
“I wish to skip ahead six months to see the place we’re, however I’m going to be giving it all the things to be sure that the place we’re is as excessive up as attainable.”
The eighth season of the Netflix docuseries was launched on the streaming platform on 27 February.
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