{"id":51069,"date":"2025-03-16T11:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/51069\/antonelli-signs-the-masterpiece-in-melbourne-hes-fourth-i-didnt-expect-this-result\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:44:08","slug":"antonelli-signs-the-masterpiece-in-melbourne-hes-fourth-i-didnt-expect-this-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/51069\/antonelli-signs-the-masterpiece-in-melbourne-hes-fourth-i-didnt-expect-this-result\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonelli signs the masterpiece in Melbourne, he\u2019s fourth: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect this result.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A race led like a veteran by Antonelli, who, starting from sixteenth, managed to climb up to fourth place. <\/h2>\n\n<p><strong>Andrea Kimi Antonelli<\/strong> firmly takes the front page of the Australian Grand Prix. The young <strong>Mercedes<\/strong> driver made an incredible comeback, starting from sixteenth position and finishing in fourth place after overtaking Albon in the final laps of a crazy race. The 5-second penalty (for unsafe release) initially given to the Italian was removed, <a href=\"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/51036\/ultim-ora-antonelli-quarto-annullata-penalita\/\">and now the fourth place is official.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Antonelli signs the masterpiece in Melbourne, he&#x2019;s fourth: &quot;I didn't expect this result.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-51064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-1920x1281.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-1170x780.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIxH6nbcAULVZt.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Antonelli signs the masterpiece in Melbourne, he\u2019s fourth: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect this result.&#8221;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>After the qualifying issues, caused by a too-low floor and a loss of at least three tenths, the Italian driver made a great comeback by racing with very few mistakes, allowing him to finish the race brilliantly, unlike the other rookies who couldn\u2019t finish the Grand Prix due to the crazy conditions of the Melbourne circuit.<\/p>\n\n<p>An unexpected and surprising result for <strong>Antonelli, <\/strong> who, at the end of the race, made these statements:  <em>&#8220;I\u2019m happy. It&#8217;s a shame about the penalty (which was removed thanks to Mercedes&#8217; appeal), because it would have been a fourth place, a result I didn\u2019t expect starting so far back, but I knew that with the rain, anything could happen. I\u2019m happy with how the race went, the team did an amazing job, guiding me extraordinarily in all the conditions we faced today. I\u2019m happy with how we managed everything, and now, I can\u2019t wait to get back in the car in China.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>Antonelli\u2019s comeback is the best by a rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHP_INUtGSW\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> in the last 23 years of Formula 1.<\/a> Before him, it was Webber who had the best result, securing an incredible fifth place with Minardi after starting from the eighteenth position. <\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Photo: X Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A race led like a veteran by Antonelli, who, starting from sixteenth, managed to climb up to fourth place. Andrea Kimi Antonelli firmly takes the front page of the Australian Grand Prix. The young Mercedes driver made an incredible comeback, starting from sixteenth position and finishing in fourth place after overtaking Albon in the final &#8230; <a title=\"Antonelli signs the masterpiece in Melbourne, he\u2019s fourth: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect this result.&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/51069\/antonelli-signs-the-masterpiece-in-melbourne-hes-fourth-i-didnt-expect-this-result\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Antonelli signs the masterpiece in Melbourne, he\u2019s fourth: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t expect this result.&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":51067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[2434,3253,3026,2520],"piloti":[2041],"class_list":["post-51069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1-en","tag-f1-2025-en","tag-gp-australia-2025-en","tag-mercedes-2025-en","tag-mercedes-amg-petronas-f1-team-en","piloti-andrea-kimi-antonelli-en"],"acf":{"live":false},"fimg_url":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GmIunU3bcAEYexy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51069"},{"taxonomy":"piloti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpkingdom.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/piloti?post=51069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}