Santino Ferrucci will continue as a Haas F1 development driver for the third consecutive year inඣ 2018.

Having beenꦉ part of the youngest F1 team’s maiden campaign back in 2016, the 19-year-old will remain in the Haas fold this season acting as development driver behind current full-time drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen.

Ferrucci has completed two in-season F1 tests for Haas, at Silverstone in 2016 and at the Hungaroring in 2017, and is likely to be in action again this year to fulfil the team’s✨ young driver test days but his F1 schedule is yet to be 💮confirmed.

The US driver is set to contest his first full Formula 2 championship after switching🅰 to the series midway through 2017 for Trident and begins his 2018 campaign with the team at the season opener in Bahrain on 6-8 April.

“We’re pleased to h🔯ave Santino back with Haas F1 Team and we look forward to his cont💜inuing development in F2,” Guenther Steiner, Haas team principal, said. “Santino is a young, American driver with plenty of potential and we’re very supportive of his desire to make it to Formula 1.”

Ferrucci is natur꧂ally thrilled to be retained by Haas for a third straight season and hopes to impress in both his F1 development driver role and his first full F2 campaign.

“My goa𓄧l since I began racing is to become a Formula 1 driver, and to be an American who is part of an Ame꧟rican team is something I take a tremendous amount of pride in,” Ferrucci said.

“My time with Haas F1 Team has really prepared me♔ for my first full F2 sea🔯son with Trident, and between the two teams I feel like I’m in the best position to succeed and, ultimately, get to Formula 1.”