Ferrari has announced that Oliver Bearman and Arthur Leclerc have been added to the support group that will be working for Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz this season in F1.
Bearman, a Ferrari Driver Academy member racing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Prema, will join Antonio Giovinazzi and Robert Shwartzman as the Scuderia’s official reserve drivers.
Giovinazzi and Shwartzman will also be racing in the 2024 World Endurance Championship at the wheel of the Ferrari 499 P Hypercar.
Arthur Leclerc joins Antonio Fuoco and Davide Rigon as a Ferrari development driver, a job that entails mainly working in the simulator, on car development, set-up work and updates introduced during the season.
The Monegasque’s race programme this year includes a season in the Italian GT championship in a Scuderia Baldini 27, while Fuoco and Rigon will both compete once again in the WEC as works Ferrari drivers, respectively in the Hypercar class and in the LMGT3 category.
While Ferrari will pull the covers off its 2024 contender on February 13, the Italian outfit will be in action next week at Barcelona with Bearman, Arthur Leclerc, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz for a three-day Pirelli test.
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On January 29, Arthur will enjoy his very first run onboard an F1 car when he takes to the track on at the wheel of a 2022-spec F1-75
The pair will also be joined by Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz who will carry out tests for F1’s exclusive tyre supplier with last year’s 2023-spec machine on January 29 and 30.
Finally, Bearman will be on his own on January 31 at the Circuit de Catalunya onboard Ferrari’s F1-75 machine.
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