Mercedes plan second FP1 for Kimi Antonelli | “Will chat to him” to avoid Monza repeat

"The pace was certainly good, we’ll chat to him about building up a bit more gently in future and how you approach the ra🍷ce weekend..."

Andrea Kimi Antonelli
Andrea Kimi Antonelli

Andrea Kimi Antonelli will be handed a second FP1 outing later in the season, Mercedes haꦚve confirmed.

Antonelli was in action for Mercedes in FP1 at Italian Grand Prix, but his first official F1 outing ended abruptly with a crash at Parabolica in the early stages of first 🎀practice.

It didn’t put too much of a dampener on the weekend though as ꧂24 hours later Antonelli was announced as a full-time Mercedes driver alongꦉside George Russell in 2025.

The Italian wil🐈l be🎃 just 18 when he makes his full F1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix next year.

Unsurprisingly, Antonelli will get another shot in the Mercedes later this year, stepping in for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton at some point.

Anꩲdrew Shovlin confirmed Antonelli will likely feature during a weekend where a sprint race isn’t taking place.

That leaves Singapore, Mexi⛄co, Las Vegas or A🥀bu Dhabi.

, Shovlin - who is the team’s trackside engineering chief - said: “Yes there will be, because the regulations require that both of our race drivers give up their seat for a Friday practice session. Kimi being our driver for next year of course we’re going to use him.

“He obviously didn’t get as much mileage as we’d hoped for, we have been doing and we are doing work with some of our previous cars, giving Kimi the opportunity to experience the car🦄, the tyres over a range of circuit🅠s, that’s going to continue. A bit of a shame that he had that accident at Parabolica.

“The pace was certainly good, we’ll chat to him about building up a bit more gently in future and how you approach the race week🎃end, but yes we’re looking forward to getting him in the car again, we’ll pick the right circuit for that.

“We’ve got a lot of sprint races coming up so you’re noꦬt going to wan෴t to have a race driver missing their only free practice session at a sprint race, so limited choice, but yes he will be back in and we’re looking forward to getting him back in the car.”

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