For Mercedes Boss Toto Wolf, it is individually to promote Andrea Kimi Antoneley with a Silver Arrow Squad with a Formula 1 race seat.
Volf is looking at the sensational growth of Antoneley through junior sources because what is wrong in Mercedes Max VerustapaneServices back in 2014.
Autosport understands that Austrian also feels that Vastapane was under its wing because Antonally is now, the outbreaks and events tracked through the career of the world champion would have been reduced to number, if not completely abolished.
Understanding Wolf is an important aspect of the story of Antoneley at this point-just one day away from creating the appearance of your first official F1 race weekend as an forbidden driver. This is not a monza in front of the Italian crowd of his house.
Wolf signed the son of Antoneley – GT Racer Marco Antoneley, who owns the AKM Motorsport Racing Team and has a difficult man’s reputation in motorsport circles – in 2018 when he was just 12 years old. As a development program with F1, as a final destination, with Wolf now is considered a firm friend of the Antonali family.
As several carting champions, Antoneley stepped up for car racing in Formula 4 in 2021 – the next year by winning the Italian and ADAC Championships. Then in 2023 and just in its first season, Antonally won the Formula Regional European Championship that F1 teams have seen as the best breeding ground for future driving success, as well as its Middle East variation.
Mercedes opted to leave the F3 step on the F1 Support Bill and placed Antoneley directly in Formula 2 for 2024 – with the intention of the famous uncertain championship to prevent its ‘winner easy’ streak.
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Wolf and the company considered it before a two -year project. Lewis HamiltonIs faulty for Ferrari F1 graduate speed of turbocharged antoneley.
Wolf eventually told partner Antonally with George Russell for 2025 about his decision, “I had made up my mind that Lewis Hamilton told me that he was leaving.”
But, in any case, Mercedes was more interested in how Antoneley made its prema team difficult by struggling with the new car of the championship in the 2024 campaign in its testing of the previous cars (TPC) programs.
Antoneley’s TPC program used 2021 and 2022 Mercedes F1 cars. East before his first, luxurious W12, he ensured all the 30 staff members required to drive a car in the test in the Red Bull Ring. Both sides took this growth very seriously.
Another sensible practice in testing late super formula machinery in 2024 – especially to learn the Suzuka track – was surrounded by a disease that severely affected the final F2 round of Antonely in Abu Dhabi last year.
And then, in the same way, he was fully headed around the press room by a Mercedes Press Attach at the F175 Live event to meet the media as a Mercedes Race Driver.
“It’s quite interesting,” he said when Autosport asked if he felt his life had changed in that short time.
Andrea Kimi Antoneley, Mercedes, George Russell, Mercedes
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“Winter preparations have been quite intense. I am spending a lot of time in the factory which is trying to do a lot of team building. But, so far, it is really interesting and it has gone well.
“I am really trying to focus on day -day -day, progress, day and day and try to focus on trying to learn more and more things. Because what I want to escape is reaching Melbourne and some bad surprises. So certainly the preparation has been quite intense, but is very good. ,
Pre-season test was good for Mercedes in 2025, two race simulation with Ferrari on Antonelie’s Day Charles Lakeler On average only 0.1s by each lap.
Nevertheless, Antoneley left Bahrain, which leaves the lack of preparation in the best extract from Pirelli tires in qualifying due to lost time and then a battery issue in unexpected rains. Qualifying, finally, is the greatest strength of his new team partner Russell.
“For a long time, I got a very decent understanding because I have been doing a very long time and experiencing a variety of approaches,” he said. “(For example,) how to introduce the tire in the run.
“For merit, still some work is to be done. But it is mainly due to testing that we are trying a lot of different approaches with tires. Also, different types of out-laps to see how the tires react and how it stays during the lap. ,
Andrea Kimi Antoneley, Mercedes
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But, the better Bahrain went to the Silver Arrow Squad, Ferrari and Red Bull are expected to maintain their positions over Mercedes in four-way scraps. McLaren,
This means that Antonely would be learning in the dazzle of the media’s spotlight, in which only Liam Lawson will be able to be related to the big fraud crop in this season.
This also means that Antoneley is likely to withdraw the learning ground to win a new and even difficult levels. And, if there should be any repetition of his 2024 Monza FP1 shunting, it is likely that Wolf would need to choose his charge, as he did in the Critical Times last year.
Wolf said in Melbourne on Thursday, “When we decided to go for a km, it was clear that we are going to a young driver who has shown tremendous ability in the junior series, because we know him.”
“For km, it’s about the time of developing, to learn the tracks, to stay on top for the next year, regulation change. This means that there are great results and mean moments where it is going to be more difficult.”
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