Telegraph -The manager of the Ferrari Driver Academy (FDA) has said how impressed the Scuderia are with 17-year-old Mick Schumacher, son of seven-time champion Michael.
The young driver, who will make his debut in Formula 3 racing in 2017, has previously been linked to a junior role with the Mercedes F1 team, but Ferrari have also expressed a keen interest. Massimo Rivola, manager of the FDA, told Italian news outlet Gazzetta dello Sport: "Obviously we follow him. "And this year we will have the opportunity to stay very close to Mick because he will be the teammate of our FDA driver, [Guan Yu] Zhou, in the Prema team. "About his future, I don't know what Mick will decide to do. But if he would like to enter the FDA programme, he will find a red carpet."
Rivola added that it was not only Schumacher Jr's on-track performances that had put him on Ferrari's radar, but also his conduct out of the car. "Mick seems very polite and he's not full of himself - so congratulations to his parents," said Rivola. "They did a very good job with him.