‘The perfect match’ – Bearman and new team boss Komatsu on the 19-year-old’s multi-year Haas deal
Bearman is in extremely likeable particular person, 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 crew with a close-knit household really feel (this was one of many key attributes that attracted Kevin Magnussen to the crew and acquired the very best out of him again in 2017). Each time he’s labored with the crew, he’s introduced a buzz.
“For this crew to enhance, the driving force is a key half,” provides Komatsu. “He’s acquired a pure character which may be very motivating and constructive. That is nice as a result of it’s a robust job. Now we have 24 races, and triple headers, so it will probably get tiring.
“To have somebody like him – a bubbly man, a very constructive man – it simply lifts the entire crew up. If the driving force is main in that method, it helps the crew elevate its recreation.”
Bearman: ‘I’ve discovered an ideal new household in Haas’
It’s lengthy been believed that Bearman could be making his Formulation 1 debut subsequent season – but it surely wasn’t till after final weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, simply a few days earlier than the information could be made official, that he came upon for certain 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 joyful to have it official and on the market.”
