One of many fascinating tales to emerge from Oliver Bearman’s spectacular stand-in efficiency for Carlos Sainz at Ferrari, within the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, was his enforced adaptation to Sainz’s steering wheel controls.
Though Bearman had pushed the Ferrari within the simulator a number of instances, it had at all times been with Charles Leclerc’s steering wheel format. Drivers are inclined to personalise the controls to their preferences, particularly well-established ones equivalent to Sainz. However Leclerc had at all times retained the usual format, because it was initially designed.
