(Paris) Oliver Bearman will replace suspended Dane Kevin Magnussen at Haas for the next Formula 1 Grand Prix in Azerbaijan in mid-September, the American team announced on Friday.
The 19-year-old Briton, a reserve driver for Haas, with whom he will begin his first F1 season next year, will contest his second GP in the elite on the streets of the capital Baku, after replacing Carlos Sainz in Saudi Arabia earlier this year.
Driving the Spaniard’s Ferrari, Bearman – also a reserve driver for the Scuderia this season – finished an impressive seventh.
“It’s more of a challenge to take part in a race as a reserve driver, with limited preparation time in particular, but I’m lucky to have done it earlier in the year with Scuderia Ferrari, so I can at least call on that experience,” reacted the young Englishman, quoted in the Haas press release.
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Oliver Bearman
Last weekend at Monza, Magnussen – who already had ten penalty points on his ‘Super Licence’ – was given a further two-point penalty at the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix for causing a collision with Frenchman Pierre Gasly (Alpine) at Monza.
According to the current regulations, if a driver accumulates 12 penalty points in 12 months, he is automatically suspended for the following Grand Prix.
Magnussen is the first driver to be given this sanction since the penalty system was introduced ten years ago.