Mercedes protege Kimi Antonelli will get another chance to impress in an F1 car next week at Spa.
The 17-year-old Italian and Mercedes junior will drive the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit next week when he gets behind the wheel of the team’s 2022 W13 car.
“It's difficult to find opportunities to run a TPC programme because the F1 race calendar is so busy. We haven't got a whole separate team of people that can do that,” Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin told select media including “We've got more events planned. We're doing a day with him here in Spa after the weekend. And then we've got other events further into the year, but it's all going well, and the programmes now will drift towards teaching him how you need to refine the approach to qualifying, how you refine the approach to long runs and just trying to get all of that work so he can have a clearer idea of what it is he needs to work on and improve.
“I don’t know if I would be ready, to be honest, because I still am learning a lot in F2,” he admitted after his maiden feature race win in Hungary.
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