Drivers
The teenage Brit was parachuted into Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari seat in Saudi Arabia – the most daunting street circuit of all – with just one practice session to prepare for his F1 debut last March, and then subbed at Haas for Kevin Magnussen at the similarly-imposing Baku street track and on a wet, sprint-race weekend in Sao Paulo later in the year. In three very different circumstances, Berman showed enough to justify the hype surrounding his ascension into the big-time with Ferrari-aligned Haas.
Bearman – born in 2005, the year Fernando Alonso won his first F1 title – is as maturely impressive out of the cockpit as in it, and while his second F2 campaign wasn’t a patch on his first and ended in a 12th-place championship finish, he won more races than any driver besides series runner-up Isack Hadjar.
Teammate
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