Andrea Kimi Antonelli will test a Mercedes F1 car for the first time on Tuesday with an eye to a 2025 race seat.
Ahead of his F1 test, Toto Wolff says he’s undecided on whether the team’s ongoing troubles make it more attractive to put Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the car next season.
Instead, they’ve always put experienced drivers in the car such as World Champions Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton as well as former Williams drivers Nico Rosberg, Valtteri Bottas and George Russell. He was asked if Mercedes’ struggles with the team having won just one Grand Prix since the start of the 2022 season made Antonelli a ‘more attractive’ option as there would be no pressure on the rookie to fight for race wins.“I believe we are in a rebuilding phase. We need to acknowledge that three years into these regulations we’ve got to do things differently than we’ve done in the past without throwing overboard what we believe is goodness in the way we operate.
“But yeah, is going to be there with a 2021 car. We want to give him the feeling of what a really good car looks like, and then we are going to put him in the 2022 car to see what the difference is!
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