Bearman is in extremely likeable individual, who lights up a room as quickly as he walks into it and opens his mouth. He in a short time settled into Haas, which has at all times been a workforce with a close-knit household really feel (this was one of many key attributes that attracted Kevin Magnussen to the workforce and obtained the perfect out of him again in 2017). Each time he’s labored with the workforce, he’s introduced a buzz.
“For this workforce to enhance, the driving force is a key half,” provides Komatsu. “He’s obtained a pure persona which could be very motivating and optimistic. That is nice as a result of it’s a robust job. We have now 24 races, and triple headers, so it may well get tiring.
“To have somebody like him – a bubbly man, a extremely optimistic man – it simply lifts the entire workforce up. If the driving force is main in that means, it helps the workforce elevate its sport.”
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It’s lengthy been believed that Bearman could be making his System 1 debut subsequent season – nevertheless it wasn’t till after final weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, simply a few days earlier than the information could be made official, that he discovered for positive that the Haas drive was his.
“It’s been a very long time coming,” Bearman tells F1.com. “In F1, nothing is confirmed till the pen is on the paper, and that was really on Wednesday morning. It’s been a loopy few months. I’m actually glad to have it official and on the market.”