Lance Stroll will become the youngest member to join the Ferrari Driver Academy.

Ferrari, the Formula One team of late Canadian great Gilles Villeneuve, have signed 11-year-old Montreal native Lance Stroll as the youngest member of their driver academy.

"He is very young but he has already shown in karting he is exceptionally talented," academy head Luca Baldisserri said in a statement ahead of Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.