Ferrari have introduced that Dino Beganovic will take over Charles Leclerc’s automobile within the opening follow session on the Bahrain Grand Prix on what is going to develop into an action-packed weekend for the Swedish driver.
Dino Beganovic goes to have a busy weekend in Bahrain. The 21-year-old Swedish Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy driver can be racing within the second spherical of the Components 2 championship with the Hitech Grand Prix staff in Sakhir and he may even make his debut driving in an official Components 1 session, when he will get behind the wheel of Charles Leclerc’s SF-25 for the primary free follow session.
That is in keeping with the FIA regulation which states that every race driver should hand over his seat to a younger driver with fewer than two Components 1 race begins to their identify, twice through the season – up from as soon as final yr.
Ferrari’s choice to supply Beganovic with an F1 outing signifies that he’ll develop into the fifth driver from the Maranello Academy to drive a Ferrari in an official session, the opposite 4 being Charles and Arthur Leclerc, Robert Schwartzman and Oliver Bearman.
Beganovic, who was enrolled within the Academy in 2020, would be the second Swede to drive for the Scuderia in Components 1, following on from Stefan Johansson who raced with Ferrari in 1985 and 1986, ending on the rostrum six instances from 31 begins. Though he by no means drove for the Maranello marque in Components 1, the good Ronnie Peterson, gained a number of endurance races on the wheel of a Ferrari 312 P within the Seventies.
