Ferrari selected jules Bianchi to test driver

Rising French star Jules Bianchi is make his Formula 1 testing debut with Ferrari next month.

The 20-year-old will get two days of running with the legendary team during the young driver tests at Jerez on 1-3 December.

Bianchi is managed by Nicolas Todt - the mentor of Felipe Massa and son of former Ferrari boss Jean Todt - and is the grandson of former sportscar star Mauro Bianchi and grandnephew of 1960s F1 racer Lucien Bianchi.

He has made a big impression in his three seasons of car racing so far, winning the French Formula Renault title in 2007, taking third place in the Formula 3 Euro Series at the first attempt a year later, and then strolling to this season's Euro F3 championship.

Bianchi will now graduate to the crack ART team's GP2 arm and contest the full 2010 season, when he will hope to emulate Nico Rosberg, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Hulkenberg by winning the championship for ART as a rookie.

After Bianchi's two days of testing, Ferrari will hand its car to the top three finishers in this year's Italian F3 Championship.

Italians Daniel Zampieri and Marco Zioli, and Mexican Pablo Sanchez Lopez will share the F60 for the final day of running at Jerez.

This is the second successive year that Ferrari has offered tests to the Italian F3 standouts.

The first such session last season brought young Italian Mirko Bortolotti to the world's attention, as his stunning pace - quicker than the F2008 had lapped Fiorano all year - helped earned him Red Bull patronage for a Formula 2 campaign.