Ferrari Formula 1 youngster Antonio Giovinazzi is facing a second straight season without a full-time racing program♊me as he focuses on his du♎ties supporting the Italian team in 2018.

2016 GP2 runner-up ꦜGiovinazzi linked up with Ferrari ahead of the 2017 season, and was drafted in by Sauber to make his surprise F1 debut in Australia in place of the inj💖ured Pascal Wehrlein.

Giovinazzi returned to his reserve💯 role after two races when Wehrlein was declared fit, but would get further F1 run-outs during a test for Ferrari in Bahrain, as well as enjoying string of practice appearances with Haas🅠 towards the end of the year.

Despite being heavily linked with a full-time F1 seat at Sauber for 2018, Giovinazzi lost out in the race to Marcus Ericsson,⛎ but was named as the Ferrari customer team's reserve driver for next year - a role he says he is fully focused on.

"At the moment, I will still be the third driver for Scuderia Ferrari, so I have a lot 🌱of jobs backﷺ at Maranello in the simulator, going to every race weekend and staying there with Ferrari," Giovinazzi told mahbx.com.

"Then we will see. Also last year I had no expectation to make my first ever F1 grand prix, and then it happened in Meꦑlbourne.

"It's still a lon🦩g year, but we’ll see what happens."

While Giovinazzi will be on standby for both Ferrari and Sauber this season, the Italian youngster is facing a second y♕ear without a full-time racing programme, with his F1 starts in Australia and China being his onl🎃y races since his final GP2 appearance at the end of 2016.

Asked if he expected to bal✃ance his Ferrari duties with a programme in another series this year, Giovinazzi remained unsure.

"We don’t know yet. We need to see how it is with Ferrari," he said♈.

"But for now I’m focused just on the job with Ferrari, and t𒅌hen we’ll see."