The Ferrari Driver Academy presents its 2023 class

Two newcomers and six drivers from last year. This is how the 2023 promotion of the Ferrari Driver Academy. Among the “recruits” are the Finn Tuukka Taponen, winner of FDA Scouting, the Brazilian Aurelia Nobels who won the FIA ​​Girls on Track detection – Rising Stars. Both are expected in F4 next season.

As for the other 6 drivers, no change to highlight except promotions in the different promotion formulas. Respectively 3^e and 6^e en F3 last year, Oliver Bearman and Arthur Leclerc will represent the Ferrari Driver Academy in F2 in 2023. The first will ride for Prema, the second for DAMS.

In F3, Oliver Bearman and Arthur Leclerc give way to Dino Beganovic. Crowned FRECA champion in 2022, the Swede is logically promoted to the next level where he will always wear the colors of Prema.

After the Swede's coronation last season, Ferrari and its academy can dream of retaining their FRECA title this year. Indeed, the FDA will be well represented since Rafael Câmara and Maya Weug have been confirmed by Prema. Already a member of the Scuderia academy, James Wharton is back for an additional campaign in F4 Italy, also with Prema, just like his two new comrades Tuukka Taponen and Aurelia Nobels.

« In 2022 we won titles again, underlines Marco Matassa, head of the Ferrari Driver Academy. For our part, we are ready to do the maximum, by investing even more in terms of facilities and personnel that we will make available to our young pilots, to help and support them in order to obtain the results we want them to achieve. know how to do it. »

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