Oliver Bearman confirmed as Haas substitute for Kevin Magnussen at Azerbaijan GP after Danish driver banned

British teenager Oliver Bearman will drive for Haas on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix instead of the banned Kevin Magnussen, the crew have confirmed.

Magnussen was handed a one-race ban after selecting up his twelfth penalty level inside a 12-month span on the Italian Grand Prix, having been adjudged to have precipitated a collision with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly.

Bearman, 19, has already been signed by Haas for subsequent season and, as one of many crew’s reserve drivers for this marketing campaign, was the plain option to step up.

The race in Baku will probably be Bearman’s second in F1, after he impressively deputised for Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz at quick discover at this 12 months’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, ending seventh.

As Haas confirmed the choice on Friday, Bearman stated: “It is positively extra of a problem stepping in to race as a reserve driver, with restricted prep-time and so forth, however I am within the lucky place of getting executed it earlier within the 12 months with Ferrari, so I can not less than name on that have.

“I’ve additionally had 4 FP1 periods with Haas within the VF-24 already this season, so undoubtedly that can even show to be helpful in tackling the complete race weekend in Baku. The crew is in good type in the mean time and I will do my finest to be ready with the time we’ve obtainable. The goal is to get on the market and have a stable weekend in Azerbaijan.”

In preparation for his rookie F1 marketing campaign, Bearman has already featured in 4 apply periods for Haas this season, including to 2 from the earlier 12 months.

The Ferrari Academy driver can be contesting his second season in System 2, and claimed his second race victory of the season at Monza.

Haas crew principal Ayao Komatsu stated: “I am excited that Ollie will probably be driving the VF-24 alongside Nico in Baku. He is already proven nice promise in his FP1 outings and post-season check, and he carried out very properly when he drove for Scuderia Ferrari in Saudi Arabia, selecting up factors within the course of.

“That is one other glorious alternative for each Ollie and the crew to work collectively, this time all through a complete race weekend, and he could not ask for higher teammate than Nico to supply him with a reference.”

Why was Magnussen banned?

Magnussen turns into the primary driver to fall foul of the 12 penalty-point restrict ruling because it was launched in 2014.

Romain Grosjean was the final driver to be banned for a race after inflicting a multi-car collision on the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix.

The stewards deemed Magnussen was “wholly responsible” for inflicting contact with Gasly at Monza’s second chicane and that the Dane didn’t drive in a “protected and managed method by the manoeuvre”.

He acquired a 10-second time penalty, which knocked him down from ninth to tenth within the closing classification, however extra crucially the 2 penalty factors that took him over the restrict.

Magnussen had put himself in a harmful place by rapidly amassing penalty factors in the beginning of the 2024 season.

He picked up three for inflicting a collision with Williams’ Alex Albon in Saudi Arabia, then two extra for a collision with RB’s Yuki Tsunoda in China.

Magnussen then picked up 5 factors in a single weekend on the Miami Grand Prix, receiving three for leaving the monitor with out justifiable motive when defending Lewis Hamilton within the Dash, after which two extra for a collision with Logan Sargeant within the full-distance race.

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