Jules Bianchi (middle), who won the F3 Euroseries (top) title this year, will join the Scuderia Ferrari young driver test at Jerez next month. This will also be the second year that Ferrari has tested the top three finishers in the Italian F3 Championship following a first set of runs at the wheel of the F2008 last year (bottom).

Young Frenchman Jules Bianchi, who has clinched this year's Euroseries Formula 3 title, will join Ferrari's young driver test for two days at the wheel of the Ferrari F60 at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in Southern Spain on December 1-2. Regarded as a real talent of the future Bianchi has been linked to the Ferrari young driver test next month and now Maranello has confirmed his inclusion.

Bianchi started this year's Euroseries F3 season as the top favourite and he lived up to the expectations as two races still remaining, the 20-year old had already claimed the drivers' title at the wheel of his Dallara-Mercedes F308. He eventually ended the season with 114 points, a massive 39 points ahead of his closest rival. Born in Nice, Bianchi also won the sixth consecutive drivers' title for his team, ART Grand Prix, following in the footsteps of such illustrious drivers as 2008 F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton, this year's F1 rookie with the Renault team Romain Grosjean, GP2 champion Nico Hülkenberg who has just signed with the Williams F1 team for 2010, and DTM aces Paul Di Resta and Jamie Green, who also won the title in the world’s toughest junior race series.

"I am really happy," Bianchi told Autosport today. "It is a very good thing for me to drive an F1 car, and especially a Ferrari, because for me it is the best team in the world. I will do my best and just learn, because the most important thing is to learn." Bianchi told Autosport he was almost lost for words. "Of course it is really good," he said. "For me to drive the first time in an F1 car, and for it to be a Ferrari, it is just amazing. I cannot say any other words."

Bianchi was also pleased that the test will be spread over two days. "I will be able to go step by step and learn a lot, because it will be really important to make a lot of laps without crashing and without mistakes," he said. "It means I can go step by step until the last day when I can push a lot."

Since his start in single-seaters, Bianchi has been considered as a future star. As a rookie, he won the 2007 title in the French Formula Renault championship right away. One year later, he changed to ART Grand Prix in the Formula 3 Euroseries. Indeed, the rookie made a few mistakes, but at an early stage, he was proving that he had the necessary speed: he scored his maiden podium finish in only his third race. The new champion comes from a genuine motorsport dynasty. His grandfather Mauro Bianchi and the latter’s brother Lucien were both successful race drivers. In 1968, Lucien won the Le Mans 24 Hours and even scored podium finishes in Formula 1. Mauro also competed in Formula 1.

Immediately following Bianchi's two-day test, on December 3, and for the second consecutive year, the top three finishers in the Italian F3 Championship will get to drive the latest Ferrari F1 car under the scrutiny of Maranello's engineers as part of their prize. Italians Daniel Zampieri and Marco Zioli and the Mexican Pablo Sanchez Lopez, will spend the day with the team taking turns at the wheel of the F60, used by the Scuderia's drivers, Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa as well as stand-ins Giancarlo Fisichella and Luca Badoer, in this year's F1 World Championship. Zampieri eventually ran out the clear winner of this year's Italian F3 title after racking up a total of 173 points. His BVM-Target Racing team mate Zioli came second with 158 points while Sanchez Lopez (Alan Racing Team) rounded out the top-three with 155 points. With the fourth place finisher, Camapana (Lucidi Motors), collecting a final haul of 152 points and Campos-Hull (Prema Powerteam) in fifth on 148 points, the seats for the prestigious Ferrari prize drive were in doubt until the very last moment.