Ferrari: Carlos Sainz undergoes appendicitis surgery, misses Jeddah GP
Ferrari: Carlos Sainz undergoes appendicitis surgery, misses Jeddah GP
The 2024 Formula 1 World Championship certainly did not è start well for Ferrari, with third and fourth place finishes in Bahrain a huge distance from Max Verstappen. ra for the Maranello house comes a new tile.
Carlos Sainz, who already ran in precarious physical condition in yesterday’s free practice in Jeddah, è was hit by an appendicitis attack and will have to undergo surgery. In his place, in tomorrow’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and also in today’s qualifying, will be 18-year-old British driver Oliver Bearman in the SF-24 sprint car.
Born on’May 8, 2005 in Chelmsford, England, Bearman in 2021 won the Italian and German Formula 4 championships, the first to succeed in the feat, and the following year he joined the Ferrari Academy and finished third in the Formula 3 championship with a race win.
Last year he raced in Formula 2, winning three races, and had his first practice sessions in Mexico and Abu Dhabi in Formula 1 with Haas. Finally, the move to Ferrari’s third driver and now, at a very tender age, the debut.
