Ferrari has kicked-off the rookie run for F1 2025 with academy driver Dino Beganovic named to drive the SF-25 during FP1 of Bahrain GP.
Having graduated to F2 with Hitech GP, Beganovic will get his first FP1 run with Ferrari in F1 Bahrain GP in place of Charles Leclerc. It will be his first time in the SF-25, that too in an official session. This is the first of the two times that the Monegasque will have to vacate his car for a youngster.
For 2025, the rules were changed by the FIA to give four sessions to rookie drivers. That means, each regular driver will have to vacate his car twice in the season. Considering the number of sprint events and street courses on the calendar, the teams have only handful of races to undertake FP1 running.
After the likes of Robert Shwartzman and Oliver Bearman, who got to run last year, Beganovic is the first academy driver from the list of 2025 to get his hands on a F1 car. The Swede is not likely to be the only one, as more teams should field youngsters on a track known to majority of the field.
New joining (as per press release) –
There’s a new addition to the list of drivers in the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy. Joining the five existing students is the Briton, Noah Baglin, who thus becomes the 25th youngster to be enrolled in the Maranello programme established in 2009, to bring on talented young racers.
Started aged 6. Baglin, born on 21 March 2012, began racing karts at the age of six. In 2019, his first season, he won the MSA Le Conti Cup and was runner up in the British Bambino class and in the Time Trials category. In 2022, he won the British Open ‘O Plate’ and also finished on the podium in the IAME World Finals at Le Mans. In 2023, Noah switched to racing in Italy, winning the ACI & Trofeo Delle Industrie championship, also finishing on the podium in the SKUSA Supernats in Las Vegas.
In 2024, he joined the Kart Republic team, winning the WSK OKJ Final Cup, as well as being the highest placed rookie in the European OKJ FIA championship becoming number 1 in the FIA Karting Ranking. In 2025, Baglin will continue to focus on kart racing.
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