Has Bearman proved he's ready for a Ferrari promotion?

The Race F1 Podcast

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Ollie Bearman’s fourth place was the big story of the recent Mexican Grand Prix, but does it prove he’s ready for promotion to a full-time Ferrari seat?

That’s the question Nelson Valkenburg, Scott Mitchell-Malm and Edd Straw take on in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.

With Bearman showing impressive pace for Haas, we look at his season so far and his progress and compare it Charles Leclerc, the last Ferrari protege to make such a step.

We also tackle Red Bull’s driver situation and the reasons why it has postponed its decision on Yuki Tsunoda’s future, and the factors that will play into how it fills its seats next year.

Finally, we tackle a batch of questions from The Race Members’ Club covering a range of topics, including the point of Renault’s F1 involvement, FIA stewarding, cooling at altitude and more.

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:02.7	The race is on, and is Olly Bearman's Ferrari future assured after his star turn in the Mexican Grand Prix?
0:18.5	And if it is, on what timeline?
0:20.4	But what's going on with
0:21.4	Red Bulls driver decisions? I'm Ed's draw and joining me to hit those topics and more are Nelson
0:25.9	Valkenberg and Scott Mitchell Mound. Well, Nelson, we'll come to you first. Odie Berman's star
0:32.2	performance in Mexico attracted a lot of attention. Do you think he's done enough to be a nailed on
0:37.3	future Ferrari driver?
0:39.3	It depends on how long he has to wait because an awful lot can go wrong in the meantime.
0:44.6	But he did prove a lot to a lot of the naysayers and he proved a lot, I think, to Ferrari.
0:50.9	It's clear that Fred Fasur is very, very much on his side. And timing-wise, it couldn't have come better because this season, a real rookie season, he's shown speed, but he's been a little erratic. And this was such a measured performance that it came at the right time. Yeah, I'd have to say, Scott, this is exactly the kind of thing that has been crying out for from Benerman. He has had some good weekends before, but he's had more where he's been fast but not
1:14.4	strung it together or something's gone wrong. So this is the kind of thing that was always
1:19.2	a possibility to happen if he did string it together. Yeah, it was the peak of what both
1:23.8	Berman and the team had been hinting at all year. There have been times where the Hasse has been very quick.
1:30.0	And it's not just been bareman, either the team's made mistakes or, you know,
1:34.6	sometimes it's Beerman on his own because Esteban Ockons had a bad weekend.
1:38.0	But this was one where both basically lived up to the full potential.
1:42.5	I know there were probably be quite a few people
1:44.2	that were crying out for Hass and Behrman to try and make the one-stop work and hang on to the
1:50.0	podium. But I think actually it probably says a lot better about both Behrman and Hass that they
1:56.1	didn't get drawn into chasing something like that and actually focused on securing the best
2:03.6	possible result and that could have been third, fourth or seventh, you know, given who he was
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