F1 driver enters amateur kart race disguised as old man to see if he can fool everyone

Meet Gerald Stevens – the slightly older alter-ego of F1 driver Ollie Bearman, who recently wandered onto an amateur kart track to see if he could take home the top prize. 

Nobody saw a threat – just an old guy with bad knees and a creaky voice.

Quadrant set the whole thing up with a three-step brief: qualify dead last, win from the back, reveal on the podium.

He might have shuffled in like a rookie, but what came next blew that cover apart.

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Did this F1 driver actually get away with it?

To keep prying eyes off the act, the Quadrant crew posed as track staff filming a promo, using a decoy driver while Gerald melted into the grid.

At the driver briefing, the organizer even told the field their circuit’s lap record was held by none other than Ollie Bearman. 

Nobody glanced twice at the disguised man in the corner, unaware the man himself was in their midst.

Step one of Ollie’s – or rather Gerald’s – mission was to qualify last. 

He tiptoed around the circuit, wobbling through corners and even tangling wheels. 

Commentators branded him ‘a hazard’ and begged him to keep it clean, which was exactly what he wanted. 

By the end of the session he had crushed his objective and finished at the back of the pack.

Step two was the real test: the kart race. 

As the green flag waved, Grandpa detonated. 

Within a single lap Gerald ripped through seven or eight drivers. 

The same grid that had pitied him minutes earlier was now watching in disbelief as the old man fired off textbook overtakes.

By halfway, he was already in the top three. 

Gerald pulled off clean late dives into Turn 6, nailed perfect exits out of Turn 8, and picked rivals off one by one. 

His opponents fought hard to hold the lead, but Gerald lined him up, slipped through, and never looked back. 

From last on the grid to first across the line – mission accomplished.

Step three was the reveal. 

On the podium, the MC teased the crowd with the words ‘we do have an impostor among us.’ 

Then came the unmasking. 

“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Oliver Bearman.” 

Gasps, applause, disbelief. 

Ollie grinned, thanked the field, and admitted he had given it ‘everything’ just to stay sharp.

Psychology made the job even easier

Quadrant wanted to know ‘just how easy it would be’ for an F1 driver to win a competitive amateur kart race, and they got their answer.

The karts were identical, but the gap in racecraft was impossible to hide. 

Ollie bumbled through qualifying to sell the disguise, then turned it on when the green flag dropped. 

He braked deeper into corners, carried more speed out of exits, and sliced through traffic with calm precision.

Psychology made the job even easier. 

Nobody braces for a lunge from friendly neighborhood Gerald, so the inside line was left wide open. 

By the time the others realized he wasn’t what he seemed, the move was already done.

This three-step stunt proved its point: drop an F1 driver into an amateur kart race and the result looks inevitable – same equipment, completely different outcome. 

Gerald’s mask may have fooled everyone, but the racing told the truth.

Watch Quadrant‘s full video below:

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