Formula 1 | Ferrari F1 Engineering Academy: seventh year of activity begins

The seventh year of activity of the Ferrari F1 Engineering Academy, the Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow program dedicated to young engineers, begins today. The objective of the Academy is to select the brightest talents from some of the most prestigious universities in Italy and abroad with the aim, once their training has been completed, of evaluating them and possibly including them in the Scuderia's staff.

Who I am. The 2021/2022 class is made up of five participants, two girls and three boys, of various nationalities who come from universities in England and Italy. Irene Vittori Antisari is Italian and comes from MUNER, the Motorvehicle University of Emilia Romagna, while Nuria Castells is Spanish and completed a Master's degree at Oxford Brookes University, the same one from which Craig Davidson, a Briton who will join the group in a few weeks, comes from. The other two young engineers are Edoardo Barbieri, a graduate of Imperial College London, and Oliviero Agnelli, coming from the Polytechnic of Turin.

The selection. The kids were selected from 497 applications and went through various selection phases that progressively screened the group. Seventy-two engineers passed the first level of assessment, based on both technical and aptitude tests and questions related to Ferrari values, and 39 of these subsequently met with the Company's Human Resources staff. The 19 young people selected then underwent a further group assessment phase which allowed the ten best to meet the destination GES managers. This last phase led to the choice of the five young people who begin their adventure with Scuderia Ferrari today.

How does it work. The participants of the F1 Engineering Academy will carry out training activities for 80% of their time in the relevant departments, while for 20% they will work together dedicating themselves to common projects. The young engineers were divided into two macro-groups: those destined for the Power Unit Area and those directed towards the Chassis Area. Each group can also count on two reference tutors. At the end of the period in the Academy - six months, therefore until March 2022 - the children will be asked to present and share the projects they have worked on with the team. An important moment in which over one hundred people from Gestion Sportiva participated last year.

Previous. The Ferrari F1 Engineering Academy is a path which, as mentioned, guarantees the company to be able to count on some of the most promising young engineers from all over the world. Over the years, this project has led to over forty young people joining the Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow. Among them also Steven Petrik, American, now Performance Engineer of Carlos Sainz's car, and the Scotsman Calum MacDonald, driver coach of the Spanish driver.

Like on a campus. For the Academy students, the Company has also thought about setting them up in the reality of Maranello. The young engineers are involved in various activities by the Human Resources staff and in their daily lives they can count not only on their tutor but also on the contact people in the department to which they have been assigned; furthermore, foreigners can follow Italian language courses and are assisted in the process of integrating into the company and the Italian cultural environment. The students have the opportunity to work as a team since they all live in the same residence, with the possibility of spending time together and sharing their first experiences in the world of Scuderia Ferrari.
Good luck to all!