Coventry-supporting Japanese has used his rebel streak and risk-taking instincts to spur on Oliver Bearman this season Coventry-supporting Japanese has used his rebel streak and risk-taking instincts to spur on Oliver Bearman this season T here is no one quite like Ayao Komatsu in Formula One . Haas’s Japanese team principal, a rugby-playing Coventry City fan who left his home country to escape the constraints of conformity, is F1’s rebel without a pause. As Haas enter their first home race of