The quintet giving Ferrari a tough decision to make
The Ferrari Driver Academy earned a podium sweep in the first Formula 2 race of the new decade in Austria last weekend. The battle between 'the FDA five' is set to be one of the major subplots of the season, but who has the best F1 prospects for 2021?
More than a few eyebrows were raised when it became apparent that the Ferrari Driver Academy was to be represented by no fewer than five of its young hopefuls in this season's FIA Formula 2 Championship. But what else could happen? It was just a natural convergence in the quintet's respective careers.
Mick Schumacher and Callum Ilott had gone through promising-at-times rookie seasons in F2 in 2019, neither of them anywhere near being ready for promotion to Formula 1. Giuliano Alesi had shown respectably enough in his own rookie F2 campaign to suggest he deserved another shot. And as champion and runner-up respectively in the FIA Formula 3 Championship of 2019, Robert Shwartzman and Marcus Armstrong were clearly ready to move up.
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