{"id":485242,"date":"2024-07-14T04:03:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485242"},"modified":"2024-07-14T03:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T07:06:59","slug":"kimi-antonelli-says-he-doesnt-handle-f1-rumors-pressure-very-well","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kimi-antonelli-says-he-doesnt-handle-f1-rumors-pressure-very-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli says he &#8216;doesn&#8217;t handle F1 rumors pressure very well&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Italian driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli has addressed the pressure he&#8217;s been under amid rumors of him potentially replacing Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes for the 2025 Formula 1 season.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli, a member of Mercedes&#8217; junior driver development program since 2018, made his debut in Formula 2 this year, bypassing Formula 3. Although his debut season has been challenging, he recently secured his first victory at Silverstone in a sprint race under difficult conditions, showcasing his talent and resilience.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udfc6 K1MI \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>One week on from our junior driver&#8217;s first ever <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Formula2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Formula2<\/a> victory at Silverstone \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2fOiwwdrWb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2fOiwwdrWb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MercedesAMGF1\/status\/1812157408434655461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since the announcement of Hamilton&#8217;s departure from Mercedes at the beginning of February, speculation has swirled about who will fill the seven-time champion&#8217;s seat. Antonelli&#8217;s victory at Silverstone, where he dominated the competition, has further fueled these rumors and impressed Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli admitted that dealing with the pressure has been difficult for him. &#8220;I don&#8217;t always handle pressure well, and this season I&#8217;ve had a lot of pressure, to be honest,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I would say I managed it well during the sprint at Silverstone. I still have a lot to improve because I made several mistakes. I also had an error in my qualifying lap and lost quite a bit of time. So, definitely, at times I am not performing as I should. But I try to ignore the pressure each time, and I think I managed to do that in the sprint. This is a big relief for me because a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Italian driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli has addressed the pressure he&#8217;s been under amid rumors of him potentially replacing Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485243,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[23143,17680,16926],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[23144,17856,1081],"acf":{"announce":"The Italian is being linked with Mercedes seat next season, replacing non other than seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485244,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485242\/revisions\/485244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485242"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485242"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}