After a rookie campaign filled with key lessons and impressive races, Mercedes’s Kimi Antonelli secured 8th in Pit Debrief’s Driver Rankings for the 2025 F1 season. The young Italian was announced as a Mercedes F1 driver for 2025 at the 2024 Italian GP, replacing seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and immediately placing him in the…
In an Interview posted on the Mercedes F1 Team’s YouTube channel, team principal Toto Wolff looks back at the team’s 2025 F1 season and the performance of drivers George Russell and Kimi Antonelli. Mercedes finished the 2025 F1 season second in the Constructors’ Championship after a season-long battle with Red Bull and Ferrari for the…
With the 2026 season already on the horizon, the driver numbers have been confirmed for what is undoubtedly going to be another exciting campaign of F1 action as all-new technical regulations come into effect and an additional team joins the grid. Now that the sport has crowned a new drivers’ champion for the first time…
The F1 Abu Dhabi GP was not a walk in the park for Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli. After Qualifying P14, the Italian had a rough race and finished the last race of the season in P15. The weak race pace was not what the team had hoped for. Starting on the hard, the young Italian…
The season finale of Formula 1 for 2025 take to the Marina Bay Circuit for the F1 Abu Dhabi GP. It is the first time in 15 years 3 drivers will be going head to head for the Championship. Lando Norris currently leads the Championship, with Max Verstappen in P2 and Oscar Piastri in P3,…
Fellow F1 drivers have rallied behind Mercedes rookie Kimi Antonelli ahead of the Abu Dhabi GP, after he received a wave of online abuse following a mistake in the closing laps of the Qatar GP. In the last laps of the Qatar GP, Antonelli ran wide and lost a place to Lando Norris. Max Verstappen’s…
Ahead of the Abu Dhabi GP, Antonelli reflected on the wave of social media hate that he received after losing fourth place to Lando Norris at the end of the F1 Qatar GP. In the final laps of the race, Antonelli went wide at Turn 10, losing a place to the McLaren. This gained a…
After Toto Wolff labelled Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko’s insinuation that Kimi Antonelli let Lando Norris through on purpose in the closing stages of the F1 Qatar GP as “utter nonsense”, the Milton Keynes outfit has issued an apology for the vitriol the Mercedes driver is receiving online. It appeared that Norris was going to…
Kimi Antonelli finished the F1 Qatar GP in P5 after losing what could have been P4, or even a podium, due to a mistake on Turn 10 of the penultimate lap that let Lando Norris through. Pit stop and Turn 10 frustrations The Mercedes rookie started the race in P5 and gained a position on…
Kimi Antonelli delivered a solid performance in the F1 Qatar GP Qualifying. The rookie found himself nearly two tenths behind teammate George Russell, and ended up P5. Antonelli qualified seventh during the Sprint Qualifying, and gaining a place to finish P6 in the Sprint. The rookie has been slowly improving throughout the weekend and will…
