Andrea Kimi Antonelli has been suggested to “decelerate” forward of his debut F1 season with Mercedes.
After only a single season in Formulation 2, having bypassed Formulation 3 altogether, the 18-year-old Italian is changing seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, the place he’ll crew up with George Russell.
Antonelli made headlines when he crashed minutes into his F1 apply debut eventually 12 months’s Italian Grand Prix, the identical weekend he was introduced as a Mercedes driver for 2025.
Former grand prix winner Juan Pablo Montoya thinks it is going to be laborious for Antonelli to “reside as much as the hype” in his rookie F1 marketing campaign.
“It will be laborious for Kimi Antonelli to reside as much as the hype,” the seven-time grand prix winner advised CasinoApps. “It will be actually laborious.
“He is obtained sufficient pace to be actually, actually good, however with pace, accidents can occur. There’s at all times speak that he had plenty of crashes within the previous automobiles.
“I feel he is totally dedicated to it and if Kimi can management his feelings, understanding it would take time to carry out, I feel he’s going to be okay.
“If he desires to come back out and race and beat everybody, it may well backfire actually shortly. If somebody can pull his reigns and say to him, ‘Decelerate tiger’.
“He has time the place he does not have to put himself into dangerous conditions. [But] I feel there is a good probability he may find yourself in an ungainly state of affairs as a result of he is proven how fast he may be, however he has proven he could make errors.
“You go quick, you crash, you do not crash, you go gradual.”
Montoya continued: “You want to discover that steadiness of nonetheless going quick, with out going excessive.
“When you may have somebody like Russell in his prime as your teammate, who’s been with the crew for so long as he has been, it isn’t going to be simple there isn’t any precedence there, nothing.
“That is what you may have, he must make one of the best out of it. You are both going to be actually good or have actually dangerous and common weeks. You want to study to benefit from these weeks.
“It’s a must to perceive why they had been dangerous. What little variations can he make to alter from common to good. If he takes the time to see these variations, he’ll be capable of change and react to conditions in the best approach.”
Antonelli passes driving take a look at
Earlier this week, Antonelli confirmed he had handed his driving take a look at simply six weeks earlier than his F1 debut on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix.
Regardless of racking up a number of thousand miles of testing in an F1 automotive to arrange for his debut season, Antonelli had not been highway authorized – till now.
“I did slightly mistake on the idea, one mistake however general it went fairly effectively,” Antonelli advised Sky Sports activities on the Autosport Awards on Wednesday night time.
“I’m not going to lie I used to be fairly nervous. I used to be fairly scared as a result of I knew I solely had that shot to do it as a result of in any other case as soon as the season begins I don’t actually have time to make it once more.
“So I used to be telling myself that I actually needed to do it. It will definitely went effectively so it was a giant aid, a giant aid.”
