Toto Wolff confident in Zandvoort The lineup of F1 drivers for 2025 has been decided, after talks Verstappen and did not achieve its integration. It is assumed that the substitute for Lewis Hamilton beside George Russell This would be the young Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who at 18 years old was destined to become a future F1 champion.
A week later, mercedes He took him in his F1 car to debut in a Grand Prix, at home, in front of his fans, at Monza. He was under pressure ahead of the expected announcement of his promotion to F1 in 2025. He was calm, seemed unfazed and the team backed him and kept him away from the press to protect him. But things started very badly for Kimi. I was living a dream, and from one moment to the next, things turned into a nightmare.
In his first 12 minutes of Free Practice 1 in F1, Kimi Antonelli crashed into the wall at the Parabolic corner, the long fast corner before the finish line. There, he lost the car behind him and became a passenger in his car until he crashed into the barriers, causing a red flag.
Someone should have told the young man in the Mercedes not to start because of the dirtiness of the track to prevent such things. But he pushed and failed.
More pressure for youth
We will have to see what can affect Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who will have to wait for a second time with the memory of this accident in his mind.
Many have compared him to Verstappen for the huge step he took last year, winning everything in the lower categories, the one from Bologna (Italy) skipped the step in F3 to debut directly in F2 this year.
He was sounded from the beginning of the year as a possible replacement, something that many did not understand due to the lack of experience of the youngster, with the need to continue developing without being in the center of F1’s focus, and above all , because a driver of the caliber of Carlos Sainz is available. Mercedes filled him with private tests with Mercedes from previous years and this time they put him in their 2024 black paw car, with everyone looking at him. And on his sixth lap, in the second qualifying session, he went into the wall.
Antonelli will have to rebuild and doubts will mount over whether Mercedes was right to promote him after letting Carlos Sainz escape at a time when the team needs two top drivers to fight it all out and aim for the Constructors’ World Championship in 2025 in such a tight that World Cup at the top.
Source: La Verdad
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