This evening, Kimi Antonelli will take on FP1 with Mercedes: here’s the photo shared on social media
In less than 30 minutes, Kimi Antonelli will have his second chance in Formula 1. A unique opportunity, just months before his real debut in the Circus: at 18 years old, the Bolognese driver is ready to savor his 60-minute session after crashing into the Parabolica wall during his second lap at Monza.
Mercedes has shared a photo on its social media channels that’s bound to make history: standing beside the engineers during the briefing, Kimi Antonelli and Lewis Hamilton. The present and future of Mercedes, with “Sir” Lewis likely offering valuable advice to the young Italian star.
Kimi Antonelli and Lewis Hamilton: a “passing of the torch”?
Positioned on either side of the Mercedes engineers, but at the heart of Formula 1.
They are the past and the future, but above all, they are the present.
The veteran who never gives up and the newcomer pushing forward, with the latter under the watchful eye of King Lewis, who even in this photo exudes the presence of a true Sir.
Tonight, Kimi will have his W15: there are more than 21 years between them, an entire generation or even more.
Yet, tonight they will replace each other as colleagues, as teammates: one is a legend, and the other dreams of becoming one.
And today, this photo already has a stellar aura.
Good luck, Kimi.
Photo: Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team
