Oliver's Twist
On Thursday, Oliver Bearman secured pole in F2. On Friday, due to an angry appendix attacking Carlos “Smoother Operator” Sainz, Bearman had a shot at doing the same in F1 behind the wheel of a Ferrari.
That didn’t come to pass, but on Saturday, Bearman did become the 776th driver to get behind the wheel of a F1 car on the starting grid, and ended up only the 67th to score points on his debut.
Bearman, the third youngest driver ever to race in F1, ended up driver of the day. Given his F2 pole too, he might as well have been driver of the weekend, but they don’t give that accolade away in F1 quite yet.
Although, to be fair, they probably would have given it to the youngest driver to ever to race in F1, aka Max “Undefeated” Verstappen. Literally, the only thing that seems like it can stop Verstappen right now is Christian Horner’s bad texting habits.
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