Ferrari reserve finds new challenge: 'That's what I've always dreamed of'

Robert Shwartzman is Scuderia Ferrari's reserve driver in 2024. The 24-year-old driver will additionally run a full season in the top class of the World Endurance Championship, the Italians announced on Friday.

After finishing second in the final Formula 2 rankings in 2020, Robert Shwartzman had long hoped for a chance in Formula 1. But having already been a test and reserve driver for Ferrari's F1 team for many years, the Israeli seems to have realised that a comeback as a regular driver in the top class of motorsport is not in the cards. Perhaps that is why Shwartzman will race in the WEC.

Kubica and Ye are Shwartzman's teammates

Robert Shwartzman will get behind the wheel of a Ferrari hypercar in 2024, entered by the AF Corse team. As teammates, he will have Yifei Ye and former F1 driver Robert Kubica. "I am very happy to debut in the FIA WEC with the Ferrari 499P of AF Corse together with Robert and Yifei. We are feeling confident and ambitious. Confident about the job we will do with the team, and ambitious about the results we want to achieve this year. We will have little time and many things to focus on, but I will give my best to adapt to the car, to the team and everything as fast as possible," he said.

"I am confident that the season will be positive and I am really motivated to get good results, with the ambition to win the world title. There is a race that I am especially looking forward to, however, and that is the 24 hours of Le Mans. It is a race that has always been in my dreams and I will do everything possible to try to win - I will give my all to do so," said Shwartzman.