Ferrari Driver Academy member Dino Beganovic will make his debut in an official Method 1 apply session subsequent month.
The workforce confirmed its 21-year-old junior driver will seem in first apply on the Bahrain Grand Prix. He’ll take over Charles Leclerc’s automobile for the 60-minute session on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit.
F1 groups are required to present twice as many apply alternatives to inexperienced drivers this 12 months in comparison with final. They have to run a driver who has began not more than two grands prix throughout a primary apply session in every of their automobiles over the course of the season.
Every workforce will due to this fact run junior drivers on no less than 4 events. They could be F1 drivers who’re at present lively within the collection, which applies to Mercedes’ Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar, Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto and Alpine’s Jack Doohan.
Beganovic has been a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy since 2022. He gained the Method Regional European championship that 12 months, then moved as much as Method 3 and graduated to Method 2 on the finish of final 12 months. He started his first full season in F2 with Hitech in Australia and also will race within the assist occasion in Bahrain.
Final 12 months Ferrari ran Oliver Bearman and Arthur Leclerc – youthful brother of Charles – as its junior drivers in apply periods. Bearman is now racing full-time in F1 for Haas.
Robert Shwartzman, Ferrari’s former junior driver who made two appearances in apply for Ferrari energy unit buyer Sauber, now races in IndyCar.
The Bahrain spherical is prone to show a preferred venue for groups to conduct apply driver runs because it takes place on a everlasting circuit with ample run-off, lowering the probability of the automobiles incurring injury. The occasion is a daily spherical with a full complement of three apply periods and working is unlikely to be disrupted by rain. Groups even have ample testing information from the monitor because it was the venue for pre-season testing final month.
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