Ollie Bearman: The 10 Minute Change That Saved My F1 Career (E396)
The High Performance Podcast
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ollie Bearman is one of Formula 1’s most exciting young talents, known for his fierce drive, impressive performances, and rising star power within the sport. As a member of Haas F1 Team, Ollie is carving out a path to greatness in F1, where every race brings new challenges and opportunities to prove himself.
In this episode, Ollie sits down with Jake and Damian for a raw and honest conversation about his journey from F2 to F1. He opens up about the pressure of racing at the highest level, the self-doubt he faced early in his F1 career, and the breakthrough moment that changed everything for him, realising that mental preparation and structure were just as important as raw speed.
Ollie also shares the importance of learning from seasoned drivers like Fernando Alonso, acknowledging his rival’s experience and commitment to the sport. He discusses how their competition has pushed him to grow and become a more self-aware and focused driver.
This episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at the mindset and emotional challenges required to compete in Formula 1.
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| 0:00.0 | If I told 10-year-old me what I'm doing now, I think you'd be pretty happy. |
| 0:03.6 | But when the visor goes down, things change because F1 is cutthroat. One thing I was doing was bottling up my emotions a bit at the start of the year. Silverson especially, I think, was really difficult. I kind of went into that race wanting to prove something with Ferrari. They've believed in me from a very early stage. I was in Formula 4 when they picked me up. They've invested a lot in me. |
| 0:22.4 | Your dream remains one day to drive for Ferrari. They've believed in me from a very early stage. I was in Formula 4 when they picked me up. |
| 0:21.2 | They've invested a lot in me. |
| 0:22.6 | Your dream remains one day to drive for Ferrari. I think... |
| 0:25.6 | Well, welcome back. |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah, 12 months on. It's nice to be back, actually. I feel like I've changed so much. |
| 0:36.9 | Let's talk then about the season just gone, because I was thinking actually like when we last sat in here and you were playing on Mario Kart with my son. Do you remember? He still talks about that. I think you beat me. I'm afraid so. But since then, you've actually beaten your teammate over the course of the season. Your fellow drivers voted you the best rookie of 2025. You had that brilliant fourth place finishing Mexico. You've now had time to sort of reflect |
| 0:58.5 | on what happened to you last year. So if I was to ask you to give your rookie season an F1 |
| 1:03.9 | a mark out of 10, what would you go for? I don't know what Mark could give it out of 10, but I was |
| 1:09.8 | happy overall. |
| 1:18.8 | It finished my best few races in terms of performance with a final four or five, which is really the target of a rookie season, right? |
| 1:23.8 | You want to learn, you want to make mistakes and learn from them and not repeat mistakes. |
| 1:25.0 | That's the most important thing. |
| 1:29.4 | And one thing that I think I did well was I took all of the learnings from the first half of the season put them into practice |
| 1:33.2 | and really made a difference in the second half so that there's really when I look |
| 1:37.2 | back at that year there's kind of two sides to that season you can almost split it |
| 1:41.4 | into pre-summer break and post-summer break, and I feel like I |
| 1:44.7 | really made a step. Okay. So you've grown up in motor racing. You know, you've been brilliant |
| 1:49.7 | in the feelers series. You had that amazing debut with Ferrari. And then there you are in your debut |
| 1:54.2 | season. And you are having a tough time in that first half of the season. Can you take us inside |
| 2:00.8 | what you think was going on with you, |
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