Bearman: “I’m ready for Ferrari, it’s my dream. But Hamilton doesn’t see me as a threat”

Bearman dreams of Ferrari Perhaps not even Ferrari believed that Oliver Bearman would be ready for the Red so soon. The Briton, who only reached 30 GPs in his career in the unfortunate Suzuka event, instead proved all the skeptics wrong with performances of pure substance already in his debut year with Haas. A team that scored points in the first two Sundays. Before the bad accident in Japan, China even had an eye-opening top-5: excluding the unreachable Mercedes and Ferrari, it was Bearman who was the “best of the rest”. In short, if Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton represent Ferrari’s present, Bearman is unquestionably its future. The talent of the red Academy also knows this, having abandoned its initial shyness and openly declares that it feels ready for the big leap to Maranello. Bearman’s words “Of course I feel ready. I think if I didn’t feel ready to fight for the top I shouldn’t even show up on the track. I feel absolutely ready for podiums and victories”, he told the Telegraph. “If I’m here it’s only thanks to Ferrari, who trusted me and supported me from the beginning. My biggest dream, in the long term, is to wear a red suit and race with Ferrari. I’d be lying if I said otherwise.” Bearman, however, still has to wait, especially with Hamilton at the beginning of 2026, appearing physically and mentally regenerated, despite Suzuka’s small step back: “But I don’t think he sees me as a threat. He is the most successful driver ever in our sport, a model for all of us. And at the moment my attention is completely focused on Haas, I believe that this year, with the new regulations, we have the opportunity to do something really important.”