Andrea Kimi Antonelli has withdrawn from this week’s Tremendous System winter take a look at at Suzuka Circuit attributable to sickness. Antonelli, who will race full-time for Mercedes in System 1 subsequent season, additionally withdrew from final weekend’s System 2 season finale at Abu Dhabi attributable to sickness, ending the yr sixth within the last championship standings.
Although he was capable of run 62 laps in as we speak’s Abu Dhabi F1 take a look at, Antonelli won’t make the journey to Japan, the place on Friday he was attributable to run his first laps round Suzuka within the No.14 Rookie Racing Dallara SF23/Toyota.
The 18-year-old Mercedes prodigy was to have shared the monitor with a solid of drivers sampling the automotive and the circuit for the primary time, together with Haas F1 newcomer and fellow F2 graduate Oliver Bearman. Bearman will drive the No.7 KCMG Dallara/Toyota on Friday – the third and last day of the Suzuka take a look at which is reserved completely for rookie drivers (outlined by Tremendous System as any driver with three or fewer begins within the sequence).
The primary day of testing, that includes the common Tremendous System drivers, will happen Wednesday-and each periods will be seen reside on the SFgo streaming service beginning Tuesday evening at 8:00 PM EST for viewers in the US.
