Andrea Kimi Antonelli admits he was “pushing a bit too much” before his F1 practice෴ debut-ending crash at the Italian Grand Prix.

The highly-rated 18-year-old, who is expected to be confirmed as Ferrari-bound 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton’s replacement a༒t Mercedes for 2025 in the coming days, dramatically crashed out of FP1 less than 10 minutes into the ses🔜sion.y

Antonelli was on just his second push lap when he lost control of his Mercedes and spun off at high-speed into the Parabolica bꦍarriers. The Italian wa🔥s unharmed in the incident which brought out the red flags.

Antonelli was due to speak to media after the end of Friday’s running but his commitments were cancelled with Mercedes confirming he ♉had returned to his hotel due to feeling unwell.

“Ah, wh🌞at a day. First FP1 done,” Antonelli said in a video releasedꦡ by Mercedes. “Unfortunately it ended quite quickly because of the crash. It was quite a big one, around 52Gs.

“Really sorry for the team and George for mꦯaking them work afterwards. Just a mistake by my side, pushing a bit to much for the condi🐬tions. Should have build the run up more progressively, but definitely lesson learned for next time.

“But yeah, sti🌸ll really thankful to the team for making this possible and still great to see all the tifosi out there and to get the first laps with all the drivers on track.

“We’re investing in his future a🔯nd these moments, they will happen. They will conti🌠nue to happen next year.

“We’d rather have a problem in slowing him down than making him faster. What we saw from one and a half laps was astonish💫ing.”