Mercedes junior, and subsequent 12 months’s full-time substitute for Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Antonelli will get again behind the wheel of a Components 1 automobile as he takes half in his second FP1 session of the season in Mexico.
The 18-year-old Italian will take over Hamilton’s W15 in Mexico Metropolis, having additionally pushed on Friday at Monza in September.
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Nonetheless, {the teenager}’s session in Italy got here to an early finish as a high-speed crash noticed him put his borrowed automobile into the Monza wall simply minutes into his debut.
That crash had no bearing on Mercedes’ choice to advertise the teen, with Antonelli confirmed as Hamilton’s substitute on the Silver Arrows the very subsequent day, and the teen will get one other alternative to indicate what he’s able to across the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez this weekend.
