Former Haas System 1 workforce principal Guenther Steiner selected Ollie Bearman as his 2025 rookie of the yr.
The British driver completed his rookie season with Steiner’s former workforce thirteenth within the drivers’ standings with 41 factors, forward of his skilled team-mate Esteban Ocon in fifteenth with 38 factors. Whereas he began the season making some errors, he celebrated a fourth-place end on the Mexican Grand Prix.
“I imply this yr beginning off being quick however making errors, however second half of the season he removed them, and it is identical to a swap,” Steiner mentioned of Bearman throughout The Pink Flags Podcast.
“Within the first half of the season, I assumed he is taking an excessive amount of danger with the automobile he had, and due to this fact he had a couple of offs, and it wasn’t good, received a whole lot of penalty factors. He nonetheless saved on accumulating them within the second half of the season however he did not make errors anymore, even within the race, preventing onerous.”
The 20-year-old driver has been linked to a contract with Ferrari, ought to a seat turn out to be out there in 2027, which Steiner has backed, together with others, together with former F1 driver and Sky Sports activities analyst Martin Brundle.
Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Crew
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“Everyone knows that he can overtake and as you mentioned, I feel for him the door needs to be open to Ferrari for ’27, as a result of if Lewis hasn’t received the success he must have, I do not assume that he continues after which there may be the plain candidate there for Ferrari.”
Bearman joined 5 different rookie drivers in 2025: Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Isack Hadjar, Liam Lawson, Gabriel Bortoleto and Franco Colapinto. Antonelli completed prime of the rookies within the drivers’ standings with 150 factors at Mercedes, adopted by Hadjar in twelfth, Bearman in thirteenth, Lawson in 14th, Bortoleto in nineteenth and Colapinto in twentieth.
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