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Ferrari recruits 14-year-old Australian to its Academy

James Anthony Wharton has won the first Scouting World Finals run by the Ferrari Driver Academy (FDA). He headed to Maranello from Australia and was the outstanding driver at the evaluation camp held at the team's headquarters in October. Taking part were six youngsters from around the world, selected by the organisations working alongside Ferrari in monitoring talented young drivers: AciSport for Europe, Escuderia Telmex for Latin America, Tony Kart for the world of karting and Motorsport Australia for the Asia-Pacific region, the latter being the ones who picked Wharton. Wharton was born on 8 July 2006 in Bundoora, Victoria, and has motorsport in the blood, given that his father used to...
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