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Jaguar has announced that reigning FIA Formula 3 champion Leonardo Fornaroli will drive one of its cars in next week’s Formula E rookie test in Berlin.
The 20-year-old Italian ended a winless streak in single-seaters of over four years last weekend by finishing first in Formula 2’s sprint race at Silverstone, and with a sixth place the next day he left the track fourth in the standings.
Fornaroli’s rookie F2 season has featured four other podium finishes and two pole positions already, while his title-winning FIA F3 campaign was built upon seven podium finishes and he claimed three podiums in the championship as a rookie in 2023.
The FE test will mark Fornaroli’s first time working with a team at single-seaters’ top level, since he is yet to be picked up by a driver development programme.
European Le Mans Series racer Jamie Chadwick, a race-winner in Indy Nxt last year, will drive Jaguar’s other car in Berlin. She drove for Jaguar in FE’s rookie test in 2020, in pre-season testing last year and then in the Jeddah E-Prix’s rookie practice session this February.
The entry list for the July 14 is completed by Hugh Barter and Alessandro Giusti at Lola Yamaha Abt.
Barter, 19, was runner-up in the French and Spanish Formula 4 championships in 2022, then leapt up to FIA F3 and came 19th in the 2023 standings.
For 2024 he stepped back down to F4, winning three of five races he entered in the Indian championship and coming fifth in the standings, and now he is racing Formula Regional cars in Ultimate Cup Series’ Formula Cup. At the halfway point of the season he has won seven out of nine races and is the points leader.
Giusti beat Barter to the 2022 French F4 title, then won five races across two FRegional European Championship campaigns. This year he stepped up to FIA F3, and sits eighth in the standings with two podiums.