{"id":29045,"date":"2025-04-18T02:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29045\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T02:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T02:03:12","slug":"race-our-writers-how-oliver-bearman-became-the-f1-fantasy-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29045\/","title":{"rendered":"Race our writers! \u2013 How Oliver Bearman became the F1 Fantasy MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri<\/a> may have won two of the last three Formula 1 grands prix but, much like in the drivers\u2019 championship, it is his McLaren<\/a> team-mate Lando Norris<\/a> who still leads the way at the top of the F1 Fantasy points scorers.<\/p>\n

Victory last time out in Bahrain for Piastri<\/a> does make the Australian an intriguing prospect ahead of the next race, in Jeddah this Sunday, especially given Piastri remains the cheaper option \u2013 costing players $23.4million as opposed to the lofty $30million required to have Norris.<\/p>\n

The F1 Fantasy algorithm respectively lists Norris and Piastri as the second and third value for money drivers so far in this year\u2019s game \u2013 but neither of them comes close to Oliver Bearman<\/a>, who continues to impress for Haas.<\/p>\n

Points finishes in his last three races have seen the 19-year-old catch the eye and he is currently the best value driver in the world of F1 Fantasy. Bearman is also currently owned by 53% of players (only Isack Hadjar<\/a> has more), while his valuation has increased by $1.2million since the start of the season.<\/p>\n

Here, the current best-performing journalist in the\u00a0Race our Writers\u00a0league, Filip Cleeren offers his advice for this weekend \u2013 as does Mark Mann-Bryans, who is some 163 points behind his colleague.<\/p>\n

\"Oliver <\/p>\n

Oliver Bearman, Haas F1 Team<\/p>\n

Photo by: Peter Fox – Getty Images<\/p>\n

Filip Cleeren, F1 reporter, Motorsport.com,\u00a0Somebody Fuel Fil:\u00a0\u201cI recently swapped out Norris for Piastri and that switch paid dividends in Bahrain. Don’t get me wrong, I do back Norris to find his form again with the 2025 McLaren, but with Piastri being cheaper it makes the Aussie an easy pick.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlongside Piastri and McLaren, the other slots are harder to fill due to budget constraints. For Jeddah, which is a vastly different circuit than Bahrain, I will be hedging my bets rather than going all in on Racing Bulls<\/a>. I have switched from Alex Albon<\/a> to his\u00a0Williams<\/a> colleague Carlos Sainz<\/a>, which is giving me the budget headroom to both keep Pierre Gasly<\/a> and draft in Esteban Ocon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHadjar stays in, but I have gone for Haas as my second constructor to have a nice spread of midfield teams in my line-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mark Mann-Bryans, F1 business correspondent, Autosport,\u00a0MMB Racing:\u00a0\u201cI was well up with the frontrunners after the first couple of races but have fallen off a cliff in terms of point scoring in recent rounds, well done to Fil\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to keep faith with Norris this weekend because I have a feeling that he knows he needs to deliver to shake off any questions surrounding him at the moment<\/a>. Piastri is the man on form, but I think his McLaren team-mate will be on the top step come Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of actual changes, I\u2019ve dropped Fernando Alonso<\/a> as even he is struggling to get a proper tune out of the 2025 Aston Martin, jumping on the bandwagon by replacing him with the altogether more upwardly mobile Bearman. My other change is bringing in Alpine<\/a> to replace Racing Bulls as my constructor, although having Sauber<\/a> as my second team is becoming a growing concern.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read Also:<\/p>\n

The race in Jeddah wraps up the first triple-header of the season, check back on Motorsport.com on Monday to take a look at the latest standings and see how teams performed after the first triple-header of the 2025 F1 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still yet to join our league? What are you waiting for? It is not too late! Join\u00a0HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this article<\/p>\n

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