They are getting younger and younger. Also in motorsport, where Ferrari's Formula 1 team believes so much in Englishman Noah Baglin that the brand has signed a contract with the 13-year-old boy.
Noah Baglin is not even allowed to drive a regular car yet. In fact, it will be many years before he can, as the Englishman is only 13 years old.
Yet he can now call himself a Ferrari driver. The Formula 1 team Scuderia Ferrari has given him a contract that binds the boy to the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy.
The Formula 1 team wrote this in a press release .
Born on March 21, 2012, Baglin began karting at the age of six. In 2019, his first full season, he won the MSA Le Conti Cup and came second in the British Bambino class as well as the Time Trials category.
In 2022, he won the British Open 'O Plate' and also finished on the podium at the IAME World Finals in Le Mans, France.
In 2023, Noah Baglin switched to racing in Italy and won the ACI & Trofeo Delle Industrie championship.
Just as he finished on the podium at the SKUSA Supernats in Las Vegas. In 2024 he joined the Kart Republic team and won the WSK OKJ Final Cup, also as the highest-placed rookie that year.
In 2025, the young Englishman will continue to focus on go-karting. But now he will be supported by the Ferrari factory in Maranello.
However, it will be a few more years before he reaches Formula 1. If he ever makes it that far. Charles Leclerc, who is very much one of Ferrari's inventions, was 19 years old when he began testing for first Sauber and then Haas in Formula 1.
The Monegasque first started driving for Sauber, whose main sponsor at the time was Alfa Romeo, in 2018. He then moved to Ferrari, but it was actually at the expense of Kevin Magnussen. Read more about it here .
Michael Schumacher, of whom Baglin may/maybe not be a new one, actually started driving Formula 1 at the age of 22. He was 27 when he became a Ferrari driver in 1996.
However, we don't have to look all the way to England to find young hopefuls with Formula 1 dreams. Danish Alba Hurup Larsen is not much older than Noah Baglin. Yet she has made it all the way to the F1 Academy as the first Dane ever.
