Lewis Hamilton has named Andrea Kimi Antonelli as the driver he would choose to replace him at Mercedes at the end of this year.
Mercedes are yet to decide who will take Hamilton's seat when the seven-time world champion joins Ferrari in 2025 but 17-year-old Formula 2 driver Antonelli is one of the leading candidates, Sky Sports News understands. Max Verstappen also remains a target for the team but his Red Bull contract runs until the end of 2028. Antonelli is highly rated after he won multiple junior single-seater titles at the first time of asking since stepping up from karts to racing cars in 2021.
'He came at this generation of cars, the ground effect cars, with an open mind. He feels all the same things that you'd expect him to feel. But he's not sort of polluted by the previous cars, so he just takes them as they are and tells us what he is feeling as weaknesses and strengths. 'He lets the engineers work to try to improve those things. But he looks like a very promising young driver.
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