In the round-up: Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu says he will show patience with rookie Oliver Bearman in 2025
In brief
Komatsu to let Bearman make ‘right mistakes’
With Haas bringing rookie Oliver Bearman into their team alongside Esteban Ocon in 2025 and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc expressing his hope that Bearman will be allowed to make mistakes, team principal Ayao Komatsu says he will show patience with his teenage driver.
“I think you’ve got to look at the individual mistakes, as it were,” Komatsu said in response to a question from RaceFans. “Every situation is different. We’ve got to judge it in context.
“It might be the right mistake to make, it may be the wrong mistake to make. It really depends on the context – where you are in the championship, where you are on the grid, what phase of the race it is, is this the race to take the race, is this the event to be conservative? So it’s depending on the context. But the thing is, Ollie understands the bigger picture very well. So my expectation is if he is going to make a mistake, he will make a mistake in the right way, if you like. That’s not something to be shouted at for, if you like.”
Cadillac join with JOTA for 2025
Cadillac have announced they will join with JOTA to operate their factory car programme in the World Endurance Championship from 2025.
JOTA founder and director Sam Hignett said the move realised the team’s ambition to become a full factory team.
“Having competed against the Cadillac V-Series.R for the last two seasons, we have experienced how competitive it is and we are genuinely honoured to be entrusted with fielding its cars from 2025 onward,” said Hignett. “We are in the privileged position to have enjoyed record-breaking success in the FIA World Endurance Championship, especially at Le Mans, and we are very much looking forward to continuing this success with Cadillac.”
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Verstappen makes McLaren, Mercedes admission with Red Bull no longer F1’s fastest (Sky Sports)
”I think they are ahead of us. It depends. Sometimes McLaren, sometimes Mercedes. I think we were faster than Ferrari but coming from P11 we didn’t have enough time to pass them. We know that we have work to do. We know that we want to do better, we are of course not satisfied with this, but everyone is doing a great job and you have to take your hat off for that as well.”
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