MoneyGram Haas F1 Team’s Oliver Bearman will kick-off the most exciting year of his career by opening the Autosport International Show, Europe’s biggest dedicated motorsport exhibition, at the NEC in Birmingham in January.
Nineteen year old Bearman, who will embark on his first full season in Formula 1 next year with MoneyGram Haas F1, will cut the ribbon to open ASI at 9am on Saturday January 11, the first of the four-day show’s two that are open to the public.
Bearman is already the youngest British driver to start an F1 grand prix, following his sensational debut for Scuderia Ferrari earlier this year in Saudi Arabia, where he was a last-minute substitute for Carlos Sainz Jr.
The teenager became the third-youngest of all to start an F1 grand prix and the first Englishman to represent Ferrari since Nigel Mansell, on his way to a stunning points-scoring seventh place finish.
Bearman subsequently signed to race for Haas in 2025, but was also called upon to make his second F1 start as substitute for Kevin Magnussen at the Azerbaijan GP, where he impressed and scored again by finishing a superb 10th, becoming the first driver in history to score points for two different teams in his first two races.
He said, “The show has been going on for longer than I have been alive and has always been something racing fans really look forward to. We love our motorsport in Britain and I am looking forward to meeting the fans that I will hopefully see at Silverstone later in the year at the British Grand Prix”
