Toto Wolff has suggested that in hindsight Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s first outing for Mercedes shoul𒊎dn’t have been on home soil at Monza.

Antonelli was handed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell’s Merc📖edes for F😼P1 at the Italian Grand Prix last month.

The 18-year-old will make his full-time debut for Mercedes in 2025, replacing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton, thus the FP1 session was a chance to see what he could do during an official F1 session.

While Antonelli showed blistering pace i൩nitially,🌠 he quickly found the barriers within the first part of the session, crashing at Parabolica.

Speaking to Autosport, Wolff reflecteꦑd oܫn Antonelli’s first outing.

“I wouldn’t say it was a mistake, but I think we weren’t completely right in assessing the pressures that he could find himself under,” Wolff said. “Why that is, is that we talked abꦿout it, and how to approach the session.

“He has been brilliant in testing. He 𒆙has never put a single foot wrong in the many thousands of kilometres that🗹 he’s done.

“But it’s a different ball game if you’re a♈n Italian driver, you’re 18 years old in Monza and it’s your first opp𝐆ortunity.

“Maybe if we had considered that as a risk factor against the set of data we had from him, probably it would have been wise to give him an FP1 that would have been in a totally different time zone than Italy. But he wi📖ll learn a lot from that.”

It was revealed afterwa✅rds that Antonelli showed “outstanding speed” ahead of his shunt.

Despite the crash, Wolꦇff backed Antonelli’s appro🔯ach.

“I t🌠hought it’s not good for him💙, because I thought it’s a shame for him,” Wolff added.

“He was so quick, and that was his fir꧒st session in Italy, about to be announced as a driver, which everybody pre-empted.

“I like his approach. He’s fast on the first lap out of the pits, and that is what he’s demonstrated. Obviously, I would have enjoyed him being 𒈔on the leaderboard hi💯gh up and that was taken away because the car flew - and some of those speeds were only achieved much later during the weekend.

“Obviously he was too fast for the condition of the track and for the car at that stage, so it was balancing the ambition, the motivation an💫d the skill versus also the experience that FP1 is𝐆 FP1.

“I knew that that was going to hur😼t him, that was going to hurt him emotionally.”