Antonelli is already used to Mercedes but one thing feels weird

08:00, 02 Mar
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Andrea Kimi Antonelli has been working his way up the ladder to Formula 1 for years, but he has finally made it. In Bahrain, during the media session on Friday (the final day of testing), Antonelli was asked if he has already comfortable at the Mercedes team.

Antonelli pleased after three-day test in Bahrain

Antonelli said, "Yes, I mean, I think it was a pretty positive test. Everything went well with the car. Only this morning we had a slight issue with the car and I missed an hour of driving, which of course was not ideal. But overall it went pretty smooth."

One thing still feels weird for the Mercedes driver

As Antonelli ran three sessions, he received one and a half days of practice. There is still one thing he underlined he needs to work, even as he has completed many laps in when preparing for his rookie season. "I think I still need to understand a little bit more about the car and especially about the tyres as well. Especially in that quali lap, the window where they work is pretty hard to get right," the 18-year-old rookie continued.

"Overall I'm quite happy. I mean, I've been doing a lot of long runs as well and single lap, yes, couldn't do a proper session because yesterday of the weather and today with the issue I had to interrupt. But overall it was a positive test and feels weird that now, the next one is going to be the Melbourne race one."

In less than 2 weeks, the Formula 1 season will officially kick off at Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia. All sessions can be followed live with us right here at GPBlog via our Liveblog.

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Mech Engineer 02 March 2025 at 14:45+ 55086

He is up against the absolutely best qualifier in F1 history, with 75 - 0 consecutive qualifying record against a team mate between 2017 and 2021, who even comprehensively out qualified a 7-times WDC in two of the 3 seasons they were team mates. Kimi will be doing an exceptional job to be close to Russell and from testing numbers, they are!

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meMa 02 March 2025 at 13:33+ 1163

Can't wait to see him compeet with Russell

Dang 02 March 2025 at 10:47+ 3050

Kid can drive !

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Mech Engineer 02 March 2025 at 14:47+ 55086

The 20 championship trophy's that he has collected throughout his racing career till date does give a very good indication of his driving ability.

Dang 02 March 2025 at 15:22+ 3050

Feared he'd lag behind the other rookies....but...hes doing okay