Right here is a solution to a possible trivia query so that you can file away, pricey reader.
The primary driver ever to attain factors for 2 completely different groups in his first two Grand Prix begins?
Oliver Bearman.
Bearman completed the feat Sunday within the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, ending in tenth place driving for Haas. Bearman was driving for the workforce instead of Kevin Magnussen, who was pressured to take a seat out the Azerbaijan Grand Prix and serve a one-race ban after receiving a penalty — and two penalty factors — after a collision with Pierre Gasly on the Italian Grand Prix.
That penalty introduced Magnussen’s complete penalty factors to 12, triggering the one-race ban.
Nonetheless, this was not Bearman’s first F1 Grand Prix of the season. Again in March he stepped into the SF-24 usually occupied by Carlos Sainz Jr. at Ferrari, when the Spanish driver was sidelined attributable to an emergency appendectomy. In his Ferrari — and F1 — debut Bearman completed seventh, holding off Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton down the stretch for that outcome.
Factors for Ferrari in his F1 debut, after which factors for Haas in his debut for the workforce Sunday in Baku:
Bearman shall be again in that Haas on a full-time foundation subsequent yr, because the workforce introduced earlier this season that he earned a promotion to F1 with the workforce, and can drive alongside Esteban Ocon in 2025.
A little bit little bit of F1 historical past made by the younger driver Sunday in Baku, and maybe a trivia-winning reply for you, pricey reader, the subsequent time you’re at trivia night time.
