Higher and higher
Second consecutive placing in the points for Oliver Bearman after the 7th place achieved in Australia, with the driver of Haas who even managed to improve his performance in Chinese Grand Prix. Starting from tenth position on the starting grid, the Briton crossed the finish line at 5th placebehind only Ferraris and Mercedes.
The comeback
A result obtained despite having lost positions in the early stages of the race to avoid Isack Hadjar’s Red Bull, which ended up spinning, with the subsequent strategy implemented by the team which allowed them to recover up to fifth place: “It was a fantastic race, we couldn’t have asked for moreand now I just want to continue like this – he commented – on the first lap I was very unlucky with Hadjar who spun in front of me and I thought our race was over, at that moment I was relegated to 12th position. Luckily, the safety car came on track at the right time, when we needed that pace. We took advantage of our luck, and the car was very fast today, I’m very happy.”
The goal of the first race in the points was lost for his teammate Esteban Oconwhich hadn’t even reached the top-10 in Australia. Starting from 13th position, the Frenchman even climbed up to 3rd place with the entry of the Safety Car, remaining in the top ten even after the pit stop. However, in the duel with Colapinto, Ocon came into contact with the Argentinian from Alpine, with the Race Direction having him penalized 10 seconds. Returning to the pits again to serve the penalty and to change tyres, the transalpine then closed the race at 14th place: “We were about to have a very good race, considering the pace we had on the hard tyres – he declared – it’s there second race in a row that we happen to enter the safety car or virtual safety car at the wrong timewhile we are in the points, so today didn’t go as we hoped. I made a mistake with Franco and misjudged the gapbut up until that point we had been fighting each other throughout the race, so it’s a shame that it ended like this.”
