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Bearman hits out at ‘young driver' F1 test rules

Dec.7 Oliver Bearman has hit out at the rules forbidding him from taking part in FP1 and next week's post-season test in Abu Dhabi. Originally, Ferrari's plan was to run the 19-year-old Briton in FP1 in Abu Dhabi – but the Maranello team ultimately ran Charles Leclerc's brother Arthur. That's because, given that Bearman has substituted for race drivers three times in 2024 – for Carlos Sainz's appendix surgery in Saudi Arabia, Kevin Magnussen's one-race ban in Baku, and again for ill Haas driver Magnussen in Brazil – the FIA no longer recognises him as a 'young driver'. Under current F1 rules, a recognised 'young driver' cannot have done more than two grands prix. So with...
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