Ferrari World Endurance Championship driver Antonio Fuoco is ready to participate in apply 1 forward of the Mexican Grand Prix for the Maranello outfit on Friday.
Along with his WEC commitments, the 29-year-old Italian serves as a improvement driver for the Ferrari System 1 staff. He had his first F1 check in 2015 with Ferrari throughout a two-day check on the Crimson Bull Ring after the Austrian Grand Prix, and he additionally took half within the 2020 Younger Driver Check and the post-season check at Yas Marina Circuit in 2021 and 2024 for the historic staff.
After Mick Schumacher was introduced as a Ferrari Driver Academy driver, Fuoco was promoted to Ferrari’s F1 simulator staff in 2019.
He joined Ferrari AF Corse for the Le Mans Hypercar class of the WEC in 2023, partnering with Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen. The Italian driver secured Ferrari’s first pole place within the high class of the championship in the identical 12 months, and he additionally, together with Nielsen and Molina, secured the Maranello squad’s 24 Hours of Le Mans win in 2024.
Ferrari is but to substantiate which driver, Charles Leclerc or Lewis Hamilton, Fuoco will substitute within the first apply session.
Ferrari has already run System 2 driver Dino Beganovic in an FP1 session this 12 months, changing Leclerc in Bahrain. However no different drivers have been confirmed at this stage.
Becoming a member of Fuoco with a rookie outing in FP1 in Mexico are Pato O’Ward for McLaren, Arvid Lindblad for Crimson Bull, Jak Crawford for Aston Martin and Luke Browning for Williams.
Why do groups run rookies in FP1 periods?
Since 2022, each F1 staff has been required to run a rookie driver in a minimum of one FP1 session per automobile, so two periods in complete per season. However in 2025, a rule change was launched to extend the necessary variety of periods to 2 per automobile per season.
The rookie drivers should not have began greater than two F1 races of their profession.
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