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Mercedes «read race wrong» with Hamilton Singapore F1 strategy

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Toto Wolff has conceded Mercedes «read the race wrong» with Lewis Hamilton’s strategy at the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix.

Hamilton pulled out a stellar effort to turn his qualifying fortunes around and take third on the grid at the Marina Bay Circuit, lining up behind championship protagonists Lando Norris and Max Verstappen.

But when the tyre blankets were removed ahead of the race start, Hamilton was one of only two drivers along with Daniel Ricciardo to start on the red-walled soft tyre, with the majority of the field electing for mediums.

Singapore has had a history of small field spreads in the opening stages, given the excessive tyre management employed by the leading drivers, yet McLaren’s superior pace allowed Norris to push harder and stretch a lead out in the first stint.

This played to the detriment of Hamilton’s strategy, as he was unable to extend his stint as far as he needed and eventually finished down in sixth.

Addressing the strategy call, team principal Wolff explained: «I think we’ve read the race wrong.

«We took a decision based on historic Singapore races where it is basically a procession, Monaco-like, and that the soft tyre would give him an opportunity at the start.

«That was pretty much the only overtaking opportunity. That was the wrong decision that we all took together jointly.

Toto Wolff, Team Principal and CEO, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, in the garage

Toto Wolff, Team Principal and CEO, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, in the garage

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«It felt like a good offset but with the rear tyre deg that we had it was just one way and that was backwards.

«There was a logic behind it, but obviously it was contrary to what we should’ve decided.

«It doesn’t hide away from the fact that the car is too slow. Maybe the opposition are ahead or behind but that doesn’t change anything.»

Ricciardo’s call to go on the soft tyre from the back of the grid failed to pay dividends and the RB driver would eventually take a third stop to deny Norris an extra point by stealing the fastest lap.

That led to conspiracy theories given RB’s link to Red Bull, but Wolff suggested any accusations of foul play from the team are wide of the mark.

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«You’ve probably got to play all your strategies that you have,» he said when asked on the topic.

«I don’t think it was dirty play, not at all; it could come down to a point.

«It is within the regulations, the drivers weren’t unfair with each other. I think it is just about who scores an extra point. No big deal.»

Watch: Is Max Verstappen Ready to leave F1? — F1 Singapore GP Updates



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Frustrated Hamilton had to «yank» steering wheel in Azerbaijan GP

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Lewis Hamilton says he had to «yank» the steering wheel to overcome crippling balance issues with his Mercedes in Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Hamilton qualified seventh on Saturday after a difficult qualifying session, explaining Mercedes had found one of its car components was «not correctly built» and led him up the wrong set-up direction.

His lowly qualifying position prompted Mercedes’ decision to fit him with a new power unit for the race. Following a suspension set-up change, Hamilton started from the pitlane and managed to climb to ninth at the finish, but only after a late clash between Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz and a late move on Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg. 

Despite the comeback, the seven-time world champion endured a frustrating afternoon in which he was seen fighting the Mercedes to get around the Baku street circuit’s tight 90-degree bends.

On the team radio Hamilton mentioned his unorthodox driving style, saying: «Do you see how I’m driving this thing?»

It was a reference to his huge handling issues, which appeared despite only making small car changes after a more positive Friday.

«It was probably the worst balance I have ever had,» Hamilton said. «I had so much front end and no rear.

Sir Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

Sir Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

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«I had to yank the steering to break the traction at the front and slide it through every corner. It was the weirdest way to drive.

«I knew we would not be able to overtake today. It is one of those tracks. I don’t know why our pace was so bad from our side from Saturday.»

After losing an engine in Australia, Hamilton was due an engine penalty at some stage this season, and Mercedes chief Toto Wolff explains that the team decided to take it in Baku because it is even more difficult to pass in Singapore, and the team has high hopes for the following round in Austin.

«We decided to do the engine change here and we knew that it was going to be a race of misery, because it’s so difficult to overtake in Baku,» Wolff said.

«And that’s what it was. The moment you come closer, you overheat the tyres and then you go backwards.

«There were two different philosophies and we discussed it at length. You just swallow the pill here, because starting from P7 we didn’t know where that would have gone, or you do it in Austin. But we feel that Austin is an opportunity, so that was the decision. Right or wrong I don’t know. It was a close call.»

Mercedes is pinning its Austin hopes on a new floor it is planning to introduce, although its decision to revert to an older floor model in Azerbaijan hasn’t produced conclusive results just yet.

Toto Wolff, Team Principal and CEO, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team

Toto Wolff, Team Principal and CEO, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team

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«The track is an outlier, but nevertheless, it’s not like this was night and day. We still suffered from the same balance performance that we had on the new floor. So in Singapore, we have the same one that’s going to shift over and we need to race that. But from Austin onwards, we’ll probably go to a new specification.»

Mercedes’ puzzling, knife-edge performance window was also highlighted by George Russell, who struggled in the first stint on mediums but delivered a much more competitive hard-tyre stint that saw him earn a podium.

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«A difficult drive at the beginning, I think it’s tricky when you’re in a train and you’re fighting for position, but clearly our car is not good enough,» Wolff explained. «The balance was not good enough to be really able to keep up, and we suffered from that.

«And the second stint was truly amazing. Difficult at the beginning, but once the car found its balance, because George drove it in the way it must be driven, then we were at times the quickest car.»

He added: «As a matter of fact this is about who is getting the balance as good as possible, who is having the tyres in the right window and what kind of aero concept works well at a given track.»



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Azerbaijan Friday ‘not Mercedes’ finest’ after engine problems

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Mercedes pair George Russell and Lewis Hamilton had contrasting fortunes during Friday’s free practice sessions for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Russell needed a change of engine after early issues, which were compounded by further problems towards the end of the day.

After FP1, Mercedes spotted an anomaly in the oil analysis it was conducting on Russell’s engine. It then decided to swap in a different engine from his pool for FP2, which delayed him getting into the session.

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The team is confident the removed engine can be used again and it will be fully analysed, but the understanding is the change was made for precautionary reasons rather than anything being obviously broken.

Russell was left looking across the garage for hope ahead of qualifying as he goes into the weekend on the back foot.

When asked if the reason for the issue had been found, Russell said: “For now, no. Not too sure exactly, we just knew we had to change the engine.

“So we had a problem after FP1, obviously delayed the session and then we also had a problem at the end of the session too.

“It wasn’t our finest Friday, that is for sure, but Lewis is looking quick out there so we know the car is capable of something strong, but once again Ferrari look really, really strong around here – they always seem to be fast in Baku.

“The problem was the engine in FP1, then at the end, it was actually a sensor failure, so we pitted because we thought we had a water leak but we didn’t.”

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Even when he could complete some running, Russell was not happy with his performance and will need to rally himself to improve.

“It was feeling okay, it wasn’t feeling superb for me out there,” he added.

“I was struggling, I was definitely off the pace compared to Lewis. I was really struggling with confidence in the car and getting my tyres in the right window so I need to try and step up my game a little bit for tomorrow and try and close the gap.”

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

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Hamilton, however, was feeling positive following his own performance as he ended FP2 in third, just 0.066 seconds off the pace of Charles Leclerc at the head of the field.

That has left the seven-time world champion looking cautiously optimistic of a good weekend in the Azeri capital.

“It was a really good day. I enjoyed today, I hit the ground running from the get-go and made incremental steps with the set-up – and for once felt like we didn’t have steps that we had to come back on, it was consistently building,” he said.

“I don’t know how my long run is compared to others but we didn’t get a huge amount of laps. Yeah, I think Red Bull seem pretty quick, as does the Ferrari, but we are there or thereabouts.

“On this day you don’t know what fuel loads everyone is on and often when we get to P3 or particularly when we get to qualifying everyone takes a step and we haven’t so far, we haven’t always.

“I think we will stay cautious and just try to do the best we can with what we have, I hope we are closer to the front than it seems maybe but we will find out tomorrow.”



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Mercedes duo puzzled as W15 got “almost slower” over Italian GP

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Lewis Hamilton and George Russell are struggling to understand why optimal performance eluded Mercedes over the Italian Grand Prix, as Formula 1’s pecking order looks unpredictable.

Hamilton topped both the second and third free practice sessions at Monza, as well as Q2, but he and Russell ended up qualifying sixth and third respectively, before finishing the Monza race only fifth and seventh in that order.

Hamilton was just 22.8 seconds shy of race winner Charles Leclerc but said that Mercedes was suffering “more degradation” as well as “generally lacking one-or-two-tenths” per lap in race conditions.

Asked about the W15’s balance, the seven-time world champion added: “It was OK, it was nothing special. You’re either graining the left front or graining the left rear. We just didn’t have the pace. We have to go and look and try to understand why.

“Also, because we looked better on Friday, we got almost slower through the weekend, or others got faster, or we were too light and they were heavy, who knows?”

Russell’s relatively poor result was mostly down to an error in the first corner on the opening lap, which forced him to take to the escape road and immediately dropped him to seventh. Losing “a huge amount of performance” to front wing damage in the wake of the incident, he had also had to make an earlier-than-planned pitstop.

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38, as George Russell, Mercedes F1 W15, runs straight

Lando Norris, McLaren MCL38, Oscar Piastri, McLaren MCL38, as George Russell, Mercedes F1 W15, runs straight

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The incident was highly detrimental to his odds of achieving a victory or even a podium finish – but this would have been a tall order anyway, the Mercedes driver reckons.

“I just got caught out by Oscar [Piastri]’s braking point and I touched the brakes, started locking up because I was so close to him and I had to take avoiding action,” Russell said. “It’s quite upsetting when your whole weekend goes away from you so quick, but looking at the pace afterwards I don’t think we would have been able to keep up with the McLarens and Ferrari.

“It was a really disappointing day, but ultimately didn’t have the pace. The sport’s a bit strange at the moment with how Red Bull have lost so much pace. Ferrari seemed to be struggling in Zandvoort and all the races prior, but then they were so quick on Sunday in Zandvoort and this whole weekend, so I don’t really know.”

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Meanwhile, Hamilton is hopeful that upcoming upgrades, albeit minor, will help the team in the fight against other top teams after all six McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes cars qualified within two-tenths of each other at Monza.

“There’s definitely some performance to come over the course of the next few races,” he said. “We do have small bits. I don’t know if we have anything huge coming, but hopefully we have some more performance.”

A two-time winner in the last five rounds, Hamilton therefore expects to have “another chance to fight for a win at some stage”, explaining: “I’m hoping if we make some progress, there will be some tracks that will be a little bit better than we are [at Monza].”



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Mercedes car more “on edge” since summer break

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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says that its Formula 1 results since the summer break have been impacted by its car being more “on the edge”.

The German manufacturer had gone into the shutdown period buoyed by three victories in four races – with George Russell having triumphed in Austria and Lewis Hamilton adding wins in Britain and Belgium.

But since F1 returned to action in the Netherlands, Mercedes has had a much harder time – with its best result being a fifth place for Hamilton at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.

The team does not fully understand why things have been more difficult in recent weeks, but is aware that the characteristics of its W15 do appear to have changed.

“We are able to extract a single lap, which is in principle good news,” explained Wolff.

“But then the balance isn’t in a way good enough to keep the tyres happy for a race.

“That has been the topic since Zandvoort. It has been more on the edge, more difficult to find the right balance.”

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

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One possible cause of the problem could be related to the new floor that Mercedes introduced at the Belgian GP, but was abandoned that weekend because of doubts over it.

The squad continued to analyse it during the Zandvoort and Monza weekends, and is convinced that it does provide the extra downforce hoped for.

However, Mercedes is not yet sure if the new design has contributed to the W15 having a less ideal balance, which is making Russell and Hamilton less comfortable in the car.

Speaking in the team’s regular post-weekend video debrief, head of trackside engineering Andrew Shovlin said there remained some question marks about the floor.

“Over the last three races, we’ve done various compares of the packages and principally comparing the floor,” he said.

“What we are confident in is that it’s generating the load that we expect.

“The more difficult question that we need to answer is: is there anything subtle in the handling characteristics that this package might be doing that we haven’t anticipated?”

Shovlin said that finding an answer on the situation is not straightforward, because car balance is never consistent on different tracks.

“It’s quite difficult to assess, because the car will perform differently track-to-track, some tracks it’s been working very well, he said.

Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, in the team principals' Press Conference

Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, in the team principals’ Press Conference

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“Other circuits we’ve struggled with the balance of the car regardless of the aerodynamic spec.

“It may well be that’s just the normal variation from track-to-track, but that’s what we’re going to be looking at over the next few days. On top of that there are other updates that we’re bringing into the system.

“There’s quite a lot for us to consider, but we do have a lot of data now, and we can go off and use the next few days to learn what we can from that.”

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Two Mercedes collisions behind Verstappen’s Hamilton penalty call in Italian GP

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Max Verstappen and the two Mercedes drivers were involved in separate collisions as Formula 1’s 2024 Italian Grand Prix commenced, which explained the Red Bull driver’s call for a Lewis Hamilton penalty.

Verstappen had started seventh and behind the Mercedes pair on Sunday, with George Russell in the lead W15 actually lining up third and in a position to race the early leading McLarens and eventually winning Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.

But Russell “just got caught out by Oscar [Piastri’s] braking point” at the first corner and locked up, then took to the escape road, from which he rejoined in the orbit of Hamilton (who had also had a brief collision with Carlos Sainz on the run to Turn 1) and Verstappen powering through the Curva Grande.

As they both shot past Russell, an analysis of the various onboard footage shows how Verstappen got a run on Hamilton and edged his nose alongside the Mercedes’ right-rear through the braking phase, when Hamilton drifted slightly right as the della Roggia chicane’s first apex approached.

Verstappen was squeezed on the outside line and the pair made light contact as they turned in.

Hamilton quickly said “I’ve been hit, by Max… right-rear”, while Verstappen complained “Lewis didn’t leave a car’s width” and later added “I got a penalty for that, so…”.

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing

Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing

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Before this, Verstappen’s momentary momentum stall meant and Russell’s better line through the first apex meant the latter’s front wheels got to level with the former’s rears, and as they traversed the second apex’s exit the Mercedes was pinched even as Russell braked with the space closing.

Verstappen’s left-rear then knocked off Russell’s right-side endplate, with the Briton only immediately then saying “Piastri just came across me in the braking zone” before asking Mercedes’ to check his damaged front wing as the first lap ended.

“I think the front wing is off,” he added.

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Verstappen asked Red Bull to “check my left-rear tyre cause I touched a little bit I think” but was given the all-clear to continue, as Hamilton had also been.

Russell, however, “lost a huge amount of performance” due to his damage in the opening stint where he was dropped by Verstappen and then passed by Sergio Perez in the other RB20 before pitting to replace his front wing.

Russell ultimately recovered to beat Perez, but wound up 1.8s behind Verstappen at the race’s end, with Hamilton 15.1s further ahead – the trio having all completed two-stoppers along with the defeated McLaren cars further ahead.

When asked if he was happy with Hamilton’s driving post-race, Verstappen replied: “Probably lap one, you’re focusing on the cars ahead, not looking in the mirrors as well.”

“That’s my only explanation,” he added of an incident that was not shown during the race’s live broadcast due to the need to cover the intra-McLaren fight ahead at the della Roggia on lap one, then the series of collisions in the early laps involving Haas’s Nico Hulkenberg and the RB drivers.

Afterwards, Mercedes’ director of trackside engineering, Andrew Shovlin, reflected on how Russell’s damage in the second Verstappen collision of the Silver Arrows squad’s Monza race “led to an early and long stop”.

He continued: “We could have potentially gained a place on Verstappen if we had committed to the one-stop but ultimately the opening lap damage was the bigger cost.”



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Russell baffled after «dropping like a stone” in Dutch GP

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George Russell has conceded he was «left scratching his head» after going backwards in the Dutch Grand Prix.

The Mercedes driver qualified in fourth place and had looked strong all weekend going into Sunday’s race but struggled for pace and finished seventh — one spot ahead of his team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

Russell, 26, who came into this weekend having been denied victory in the Belgian Grand Prix after his car was disqualified for being underweight, said he was perplexed to be so far adrift.

«We just had no pace,» the Briton lamented. «I was just dropping like a stone — especially quite surprised versus Ferrari. We were expecting to be comfortably ahead of them, and Charles [Leclerc] was quicker, Carlos [Sainz] was catching me. Clearly, we got something wrong with the tyres.

«After the first couple of laps I thought we were on course for a podium here, I knew the overtaking was going to be difficult. I was really shocked at how fast McLaren was.

«Lando [Norris] just looked so comfortable out there, super impressive to see, but we’ve had six really strong races and then suddenly we’ve finished almost a minute behind the win, so you don’t lose all of that performance overnight.

«We qualified fourth and clearly didn’t get something right [in the race]. Honestly, right now I’m still scratching my head. It was very tough conditions, you know, this wind with the long corners. Right now I don’t have the answers.»

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W15

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Meanwhile, Hamilton was left ruing the cost of his three-place grid penalty imposed for blocking Sergio Perez and said that grid drop prevented him from a shot at the podium.

«I had a lot of fun today,» the seven-time world champion commented. «We planned to do a two-stop, started on the soft – the soft tyre was a very good tyre, it felt much better than the medium tyre in practice.

«The hard tyre was pretty decent, it was difficult to see what I needed to do. I was on a two-stopper, so I was trying to use up the tyre but I also wasn’t sure whether or not we might possibly go for a one [stop].

«Probably if I got on to the one-stop and managed a little bit better, then I could have done a one-stop and maybe finished one spot ahead.

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On whether the result would have been better without his grid penalty, Hamilton replied: «Yes, definitely, if I just qualified like I should have qualified.

«If I didn’t have the problem in qualifying then yes. I think I had the pace today to be in the top five – if I started fourth for example I would’ve finished at least fourth.»



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«Tough» for Hamilton to wait until 2025 to work with new F1 race engineer

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Lewis Hamilton will be forced to wait until 2025 to start building a relationship with a new Formula 1 race engineer at Ferrari.

Hamilton had hoped Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington, his long-serving race engineer, would follow him to the Italian team for next season, saying he was like his «brother».

However, the British engineer has been promoted to Mercedes’ head of race engineering and will remain with the Silver Arrows.

The terms of Hamilton’s contract with Mercedes prevent him from having technical discussions with his new team until his deal expires at the end of the year. And that has a significant bearing on forming the crucial relationship with his new race engineer.

Speaking ahead of this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix, Hamilton said he understands the reasons for Bonnington staying with Mercedes, but admitted it will be «tough» starting a new relationship from scratch in January.

He said: «Was I hoping [he would join Ferrari]? I would have loved to continue with him. We have a great relationship. I love him, he’s like a brother, but I’m really, really happy for him.

«For me, I think it’s just about people doing what’s best for you. Packing up and leaving, I could only imagine — it’s not him and his partner. It affects both of them, so they have to do whatever is right for him.

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Sir Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG F1 Team, Charles Leclerc, Scuderia Ferrari

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«I knew it would be an unlikely scenario that he would go with me, because it is such a drastic change in his life. But I’m really happy for us here in the team to acknowledge and make changes to his career pathway, so he can grow more. Either way we’re going to be family forever.

«We’ve spoken about it and we just want to make sure we finish on a high.»

When asked if he could only start speaking to his new race engineer in January when his new deal starts, Hamilton confirmed that will be the case and added: «It’s tough. That makes it really difficult but I think it’s probably the same for anyone moving into a new office. [It will] be a very heavy loaded start next year.»

Ferrari needs to decide who will oversee Hamilton’s side of the garage with the Briton only having worked with a handful of race engineers during his lengthy F1 career.

Hamilton said: «It’s got to be someone you get on with, it’s got to be someone that you ultimately are able to find it easy to build a relationship with and trust.

«And so the next one, that’s going to be a discovery process. We’ll know quite early on whether or not it’s going to work, and I think it’s just about communicating.»

With Bonnington’s switch ruled out, Hamilton was also asked if anyone else would be following him from Mercedes to Ferrari.

He added: «Not that I know of. There’s a few people there that I worked with in the past. There’s someone there that left me a long time ago, so I know him, he’s the one I know mostly there about from [Ferrari boss] Fred Vasseur.»



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Mercedes set to hand Antonelli FP1 rookie outing at F1 Italian GP

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli is set to be handed his first FP1 outing with Mercedes at the Italian Grand Prix as preparations for his potential promotion to its Formula 1 line-up from 2025 intensify.

The Italian, who turns 18 on Sunday, is strongly tipped to be named as replacement for Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes from 2025, and has conducted a series of private tests in W13 and W14 F1 cars this year.

According to Autosport sister site it.motorsport.com, Mercedes is set to give Antonelli his first public F1 outing at Monza in one of its mandatory FP1 outings for a rookie driver, where the team is also expected to finalise its arrangement to promote its junior driver into its 2025 driver line-up alongside George Russell.

Prema Formula 2 racer Antonelli is expected to take over Hamilton’s W15 F1 car for the session in order to be engineered by Peter Bonnington, who recently became acquainted with the youngster during the Pirelli tyre test immediately after the Belgian GP.

Bonnington has recently been promoted to Mercedes head of race engineering, a role he will dovetail with race engineering duties, and keeps him at the team in 2025.

Several members of the Mercedes engineering team, including Bonnington, remained at Spa-Francorchamps to follow Antonelli’s progress at the test.

Antonelli has already been fulfilling simulator driver duties at Mercedes alongside his private testing programme, while his FP1 outing will be his first public F1 appearance on track for Mercedes.

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Prema Racing

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Mercedes is yet to formally announce its FP1 rookie driver plans for this year and after Monza there are just two events, Mexico and Abu Dhabi, which are either not street tracks or run under a sprint race format.

In an exclusive interview with Autosport over the F1 summer break, Antonelli said he was not taking anything for granted at Mercedes but was also not afraid of being judged on the biggest stage.

«Some degree of worry I think is always there, the prospect of not being able to perform I think frightens everyone,» Antonelli said about the prospect of becoming an F1 rookie.

«My approach is to see it as a great opportunity to learn, grow and also enjoy the moment.

«I’m not afraid of being judged, I know Mercedes has a clear opinion about my potential, already this season in F2 the championship didn’t kick off in the best way but there were no negative thoughts.

«I am quite calm, if the opportunity presented itself to me I would take it with eagerness and try to make the most of it.

«Recently there has been some pressure on me with all the rumours about next year, but I have always tried to enjoy it. I’m enjoying the opportunities I have.»



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