British teenager Oliver Bearman will substitute Carlos Sainz at Ferrari for this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after the Spaniard underwent profitable surgical procedure for appendicitis.
Sainz missed his media duties on Wednesday by means of sickness earlier than taking part in each of Thursday’s follow periods in Jeddah, however Ferrari introduced forward of Friday’s last follow and qualifying that the Spaniard had been identified with appendicitis.
Bearman, 18, who has been a part of the Ferrari Driver Academy since 2021, made a stable debut for the Italian workforce by taking tenth within the session forward of qualifying.
“Carlos is out of surgery,” stated Ferrari in an announcement launched after Bearman had pushed in last follow.
“Everything went well and he is now resting at the hospital. We send him our full support for a quick recovery.”
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F2 championship chief Theo Pourchaire goes into the facet of Oliver Bearman, sending them each off monitor
Bearman, who featured in follow for Haas in Mexico and Abu Dhabi final season, had taken pole place on Thursday’s F2 qualifying session, however is not going to function within the feeder sequence’ races over the rest of the weekend.
The Prema driver completed sixth in his debut F2 marketing campaign in 2023, successful three function races and one dash race.
Berman used the quantity 38 on his automotive as he grew to become the 14th British driver to race for Ferrari in F1 and the primary since Eddie Irvine left the workforce in 2000.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton is becoming a member of the Italian workforce in 2025 instead of Sainz.
The Spaniard, who has but to safe a seat for 2025, took a formidable third-placed podium end ultimately weekend’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
Sainz is the second F1 driver within the area of two years to overlook a race with appendicitis, following Williams driver Alex Albon being dominated out of the 2022 Italian Grand Prix with the identical sickness.
Sky Sports activities F1’s dwell Saudi Arabian GP schedule
Friday March 8
- 4.10pm: Saudi Arabian GP Qualifying build-up
- 5pm: SAUDI ARABIAN GP QUALIFYING
Saturday March 9
- 12pm: F1 Academy Race 2
- 1.20pm: F2 Function Race
- 3.30pm: Saudi Arabian GP build-up: Grand Prix Saturday
- 5pm: THE SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX
- 7pm: Saudi Arabian GP response: Chequered flag
- 9.30pm: Saudi Arabian GP highlights
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