“And I think you’ve either got the speed or you don’t have the speed, and Kimi absolutely has the speed. He’s proven that in all of his categories.”
While Antonelli has already shown great pace in F1 machinery, his first outing for Mercedes in FP1 at Monza didn’t end well.
Assessing the challenge of Antonelli next year, Russell said: “I think I’ve always believed that you gain a lot over time with experience, in terms of how to deal with the race weekend, the tyres, the team, but I don’t believe I’m any faster today on raw pace than I was when I was 17 years old
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