Andrea Kimi Antonelli does not have key similarities to a young 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, it has been claimed.

Teenage 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Antonelli’s impressive start to his rookie season with Mercedes has been compared by some to when Verstap🏅pen got his break, aged 17.

There are obvious discrepancies - none more so than Antonelli running in a competitive Mercedes, while Verstappen got started in a Toro Rosso.

However, the personality traits that Verstappen demo🗹nstrated in his early days also mark him out as different, ༺it has been suggested.

Kimi Antonelli compared to Max Verstappen

“For me, it’s totally differen♔t,” L’Equipe journalist Fred Ferret told the F1 Nation podcast when comparing Antonelli to Verstappen.

“We saw Max coming from a long 🤡time. Especially when you are French because he was in a battle with Esteban Ocon, which Esteban won because he🏅 crashed less than Max.

“But in the first test at Suzuka in 2014, in🐈 a press conference, he was surprised b🐷y questions about how young he was.

“He looked at us like: “It’s a car… y♒ou 🍬think I can’t drive a car?”

“Whe𓆏n you see Kimi going through the paddock, he’s not like that.”

Antonelli has been likened more to the early days of Lewis Hamilton - who he eventually replaওced at Mercedes this ye꧙ar.

“I would compare it to Lewis in 2007,” Ferr🔯et claimed.

“What McLaren did with hi🗹m looks the same a🐠s Mercedes and Kimi.

“You won’t see Kim♐i doing the same mistakes as Max did at the start of his career.

“He haඣs been n😼urtured, and there are a lot of people taking care of him.

“Toto Wolff is keeping his head down.”

Antonelli was famously taken around the F1 media centre at h♓is debut to personally greet journalists and rep♛orters.

Mercedes’ handling of their young and dynamic talent has been lauded, ever♛ since team principal Wolff boldly chose him to replace Hamilton.

His pace has stood o﷽ut in the first six F1 grands prix of the year, but his standout moment came last weekend when he grabbed pole position for the sprint rac🐽e at the Miami Grand Prix.

Antonelli has fi꧑nished inside the top 10 at five out of six grands prix 💮this season so far.