The Ferrari Driver
Academy has added another young driver to its growing
roster, this time it is Sergio Perez, a twenty year old
driver from Guadalajara in Mexico who is joining the
ranks of Scuderia Ferrari’s young driver development
programme which was launched last year and which already
has six drivers on its books.
The news comes just a
four days after Perez was announced as a race driver for
the Hinwill, Switzerland-based Sauber Formula 1 team in 2011 meaning that the young Mexican
driver who is heavily supported by that country's
telecommunications giant Telmex will thus make his
Formula 1 debut in a car powered by Ferrari.
Born on 26 January 1990, Sergio began his single-seater
career in the United States, racing in the National Skip
Barber Championship. In 2005, he made the trip to
Europe, competing in the German Formula BMW series for
two years, before running the colours of the Mexican
team in the now defunct A1 GP championship in 2007. That
same year, he embarked on a campaign in the British
Formula 3 series, winning four races in that category in
2008, finishing fourth overall in the championship.
At the end of 2008, he made the move to GP2. He has four
wins to his name in this category, the most prestigious
coming in the feature race in Monaco. Perez currently
lies second in the 2010 championship, with just one
round remaining in Abu Dhabi to close the season.
