{"id":316323,"date":"2025-10-19T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316323\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:44:10","slug":"oliver-bearman-admits-terrifying-moment-after-frightening-race-ban-scare-in-us-gp-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/316323\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Bearman Admits Terrifying Moment After Frightening Race Ban Scare in US GP Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oliver Bearman has revealed he was worried about facing a race ban following a track-limits violation in his sprint duel with Andrea Kimi Antonelli at the US Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

The Haas driver is skating on thin ice right now, sitting on ten penalty points \u2014 only two away from an automatic race ban. But he is relieved that he can suit up for the next race.<\/p>\n

How Close Was Oliver Bearman to a Race Ban at the US Grand Prix?<\/p>\n

On lap 14 of 19, Antonelli went after Bearman for the final points-paying position at Turn 15. The Mercedes held the inside line at the apex, but the Haas driver went around the outside \u2014 leaving the track \u2014 and rejoined ahead.<\/p>\n

According to FIA F1 driving guidelines, the driver on the attack has the right to the corner and isn\u2019t required to make room for a rival.<\/p>\n

Antonelli didn\u2019t push Bearman beyond the track, but Bearman\u2019s only escape route was around the outside.<\/p>\n

\\While Antonelli didn\u2019t force Bearman off the track, the Haas driver\u2019s only option to avoid a collision was to run wide \u2014 though the margin was small \u2014 and he still emerged ahead of the Mercedes.<\/p>\n

The key outcome was that the British driver avoided adding to his existing haul of 10 penalty points. Another two would have resulted in a ban for the Mexico City GP, but as he didn\u2019t rejoin the circuit dangerously, no further points were issued.<\/p>\n

Bearman received a ten-second penalty, which sent him out of the final Sprint points-paying position. Thankfully, no penalty points were added, which the Haas driver admits worried him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what you guys thought, but I felt pretty hard done by this morning,\u201d Bearman said<\/a>. \u201cActually, I thought I had a race ban for a minute, so I was really, really annoyed. Obviously, with everything that happened, I had a bit of fire in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Briton openly expressed his disagreement with the stewards\u2019 penalty, yet wisely refrained from making remarks about the officiating that could have led to further FIA punishment.<\/p>\n

Due to the safety car after Lance Stroll\u2019s incident with Esteban Ocon, Bearman felt the Haas team were unable to reach a decision on whether to allow Antonelli past.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom our view at the time, we didn\u2019t have a long time to really think about it, because the safety car came out directly,\u201d explained. \u201cBut from where I\u2019m sitting, it\u2019s really marginal.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I said, I think back about that 10-page document [driving guidelines] in those two-tenths of a second that he sent it on my inside and couldn\u2019t quite figure out exactly where he was relative to my mirror or whatever,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, you know, I leave it to the team to decide that. But I think by the time they were ready to make a decision, the safety car was already out,\u201d Bearman added.<\/p>\n

Haas F1 are having a difficult season, lying only ahead of Alpine, who have struggled throughout the year. The team did bring an upgrade to Austin, trialled successfully by Ocon in FP1, but it isn\u2019t yet fitted to both cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Bearman has revealed he was worried about facing a race ban following a track-limits violation in his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":316324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-316323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115401606019428962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}