Bearman’s stunning weekend in Azerbaijan fired him far up the drivers’ standings, with the 38-point haul putting him in fourth place and setting him up for a title-challenging rookie season.
The Briton, who moved up to F2 with Prema after just one season in F3 which saw him finish third, learned from his early season mistakes to complete a rare clean sweep, topping practice, qualifying and both races, as well as the fastest lap in race one.
Speaking after the weekend, he said: “It was an amazing race. To take a clean sweep of wins this weekend is a great feeling. I've got to say a huge thanks to the team, they gave me the fastest car this weekend so really good job from them.
“It was a tough race, it's always close and I had a lot of pressure from behind, especially at the start but once I managed to pull a gap, I was just waiting for a safety car or something bad to happen but luckily, nothing did and we managed to take the win. Really happy with this result and let's keep it up.”
Drivers have done the double before, of course – Felipe Drugovich won both F2 races in Barcelona last year, while also taking the fastest lap in race one. Juri Vips became the first F2 driver to take two wins in one weekend in 2021, also in Baku, before Oscar Piastri repeated the feat later that season in Jeddah.
But these feats go further than that, with drivers securing pole and winning both races at a minimum, with several having also led practice ahead of that, as Bearman did, or taking fastest laps.
With that said, Autosport ranked all eight second-tier clean sweeps across F2 and its predecessors, GP2 and Formula Renault 3.5.
8. Giedo van der Garde, Formula Renault 3.5, Monza 2008
Source: Autosport