Ferrari will be running a 2010 F1 car at Vallelunga later this week to provide prize drives for the latest generation of rising stars in Italian Formula 3. In previous years the top three in the Italian series have been run but this year’s third-place man Brandon Maisano is already a member of the Ferrari Academy and so his place has been taken by Spain’s Daniel Juncadella, the winner of the European F3 Series. The other two Italian F3 stars will be Eddie Cheever III and Riccardo Agostini. Cheever is the son of former Grand Prix driver Eddie Cheever Jr, who raced in F1 for 11 years with nine different teams but never managed to win a race. After F1 he started his own team in IndyCar racing and won the Indianapolis 500 in 1998.
Eddie III was born in Rome in 1993 and drove his first kart when he was nine. He did not go racing until he was 13 but then moved on to attend the Henry Morrogh Racing School and in 2009 took part in his first car races in the Swiss Formula Renault Championship. He went on to the Italian Formula Abarth championship and then moved into F3 in 2011. The series is rather complicated this year, with two parallel titles. Cheever won one of them and was third in the other. This was won by Riccardo Agostini, an 18-year-old from Padua, who previously spent two years in Formula Abarth. He was runner-up to Cheever in the second series and the top rookie.
joeblogsf1 
Is Ricardo Agostini related to the great bike champion?
All three drivers have the last name of racers, Jose Juncadella was a Spanish sports car driver from the early ’70s.
Joe,
Can you confirm whether Ferrari will also be entitled to do the same sort of testing that the other teams are carrying out now at Abu Dhabi?
While on the subject, how come the teams are still running double DRS so late in the season? I thought the FIA had already outlawed it for next year.
I am always baffled after witnessing it so many times, that the teams hack around with rules behind closed doors and then make surprise announcements very late in the season.
Can you please shed some light on this rule-making process? But then maybe here & now we’re not at the right place at the right time (under this post).
They already did. At Magny Cours. The test at Vallelunga does not come under no test rules because they are 2010 cars
Joe, speaking of Ferrari. After the race Mark had on Sunday, I don’t really see him going to Ferrari in 2014. I see him going into retirement… the fire just isn’t there and his best years seem to be behind him. This wasn’t a one-off either, He just hasn’t been impressive lately.
If Ferrari can’t get Vettel I definitely see them going for a young and hungry driver like Hulkenberg or even Rosberg.