Ferrari💯 has announced the latest edition to its Driver Academy with 15-year-old Gianluca Petec🌸of joining its ranks.

The Brazilian driver partners fellow countryman Enzo Fittipaldi, grandson of F1 world champion Emerson Fittipaldi, in the young driver development programme run by the Italian manufacturer to see the country’s two leading lightওs in the Ferrari fold.

Brazil is eager to uncover its next Formula 1 driver after Felipe Massa’s retirement which sees no Bra💝zilian driverꦍ on the F1 grid for the first time since 1969.

The Sao Paulo-bor🐽n driver contested his second season in the CIK-FIA European Championship in 2017 ending the year sixth in the final out of 34 drivers. The 15-year-old has recently tested an Italian Formula 4 car thanks to an invite from Ferrari as he aims to graduate into single-seater racing in 2018.

Petecof joins Fittipaldi in the Ferrari junior set-up alongside current members Giuliano Alesi, Marcus Armstrong, Antonio Fuoc🐻o, Callum Ilott, Charles Leclerc, Robe𒈔rt Shwartzman and Guan Yu Zhou.