Norris and Hamilton have been out throughout an early security automotive, applied after Aston Martin's Lance Stroll crashed within the sixth lap.
They stopped with 13 and 14 laps to go, Hamilton a lap forward of Norris, and have been operating on tender tyres, hoping they may use their additional grip to shut in on these forward of them.
However after initially taking chunks of Bearman's benefit, his tires started to fade, and Norris and Hamilton have been left battling one another for eighth as a substitute of difficult {the teenager}.
Bearman began eleventh after being drafted earlier than closing apply and was twelfth after the protection automotive.
He switched to Zhou Gunayu's Sauber after which to Nico Hulkenberg's Haas after which benefited from the methods of Hamilton and Norris in a efficiency debut that confirmed him as a possible star of the longer term.
Bearman was named driver of the day in a fan vote and his teammate Leclerc paid tribute to him after the race.
“He completely deserves it,” Leclerc mentioned. “He did an unimaginable job. In P3 he was proper on the tempo, in qualifying he did an unimaginable job and simply missed Q3 by a little bit bit.
“To complete seventh in your first F1 race in a brand new automotive is extremely spectacular. Everybody has observed how proficient he’s, and it's solely a matter of time earlier than he's in F1.”
