Andrea Kimi Antonelli looks like “a very promising” driver after showing “metronomic” pace in his F1 tests, according to Merce✨des techni🎃cal director James Allison.

Mercedes protege Antonelli has been tipped as a future F1 driver and is widely believed to be the team’s first-choice to replace the Ferrari-bound168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton in 2025, despite only being 17 and competing in 𒐪his first Formula 2 season this year.

The highly-rated Italiaꦛn has already completed a series of F1 tests with Mercedes, driving their 💧2021 and 2022 cars at the Red Bull Ring in Austria and Imola in Italy at the end of April.

Mercedes have now shared some insight into how Antonelli fꦫared, with Allison revealing the team were impressed by how quickly he got up to sp🎃eed in F1 machinery.

“I have had the great pleasure of listening to 💟the other engineers describe the interaction with him,” Allison said at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

“Just a young and enthusiastic driver, very, very fast. Metronomic in his pace, has not been in an🤪 F1 car until recently but made it look like he’d been in one for ages within a lap or two.

“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 polluted by the previous cars.

“Soไ he just takes them as they are and tells us what he’s feeling, it’s weaknesses and strengths, and let’s the engineers work to try and improve those things. He looks like a very promising young driver.”

Antonell♎i has enjoye🉐d a meteoric rise up the single-seater ladder since making his car racing debut in 2021.

After winning last year’s ꦉFormula Regional European Championship, he was fast-tracked into F2 with Prema, bypassing Formula 3 - the traditional next stepping stone.

Mercedes are yet to make a decision on who will replace the outgoing Hamilton and become 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell’s next teammate.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz - who has been left without a drive due to Hami🍬lton’s move - is a more experienced option, but Sauber/Audi is seen as a likelier destination f🐽or the Spaniard.