When a vacancy arose at Williams after Logan Sargent’s dismissal, Mercedes did not dare to put future debutant Andrea Kimi Antonelli behind the wheel. Toto Wolff explained this by saying that he wants to repeat with the young Italian the program that Lewis Hamilton used to prepare for his debut.
Toto Wolff: “If you look at Lewis’ work plan at the time, it becomes clear that you need to do enough testing to prepare not only for the driving, but also for other aspects of the race weekend.
After assessing Williams’ capabilities, we decided to keep Kimi with us and continue his program. He will have his first training in Mexico City, then testing in Abu Dhabi, and then we will go from there.
Antonelli is a natural talent. He has qualities that cannot be learned. It is much easier to remove unnecessary aggression than to make a rider faster.
In this case our job is to try to help, to point out to Kimi that you shouldn’t attack as much as possible every lap, and to talk to him about the difference between practice and qualifying.”
Source: F1 News
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