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MERCEDES MAKE 'LEWIS HAMILTON REPLACEMENT DECISION' AS GEORGE RUSSELL OUTCLASSED
IN TEST


MERCEDES TEAM PRINCIPAL TOTO WOLFF IS READY TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT HIS 2025
DRIVER LINE-UP.

By Harry Smith
09:19, Wed, May 29, 2024
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George Russell was reportedly beaten by Kimi Antonelli in a private Mercedes
test (Image: Getty)

George Russell was out-paced by Kimi Antonelli in a private test, according to
reports from Italy. The 17-year-old starlet is set to join the Brit at Mercedes
in 2025 as Lewis Hamilton’s replacement with Toto Wolff’s hopes of signing Max
Verstappen dead and buried.

Antonelli has been touted as a potential option for the Silver Arrows ever since
Hamitlon’s move to Ferrari was confirmed at the beginning of February and after
the shortlist was narrowed down to the Bologna-born teenager and reigning world
champion Verstappen, it looked inevitable that he would join the grid in 2025.



According to a report from Corriere dello Sport, that eventuality is now all but
confirmed. The tipping point for Antonelli was his private Silverstone test. It
was already known that the Italian performed well against benchmark times set by
test and reserve driver Mick Schumacher, but the latest report suggests that
Russell was also present at the track.


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Not only was the incumbent Mercedes driver setting laps of the Silverstone
circuit though. Corriere reports that Antonelli’s times were actually faster
than the former Williams star on long-run simulations, while they were similarly
matched in qualifying trim.



This performance has likely sealed the teenager’s spot on the grid for the 2025
campaign, despite having only accumulated 48 points from his opening 10 races in
Formula Two with PREMA Racing. While some will have concerns about his readiness
for the pinnacle of open-wheel racing, he has completed a rigorous private
testing program with Mercedes.



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Since the test, key Mercedes personnel have been glowing in their praise for the
17-year-old. Offering his assessment of Antonelli’s talent, technical director
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“Very, very fast and metronomic in his pace. He has not been in an F1 car until
recently but made it look like he'd been in one for ages within a lap or two. He
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“He feels all the same things that you'd expect him to feel, but he's not sort
of polluted by the previous cars. So he just takes them as they are and tells us
what he is feeling as weaknesses and strengths.

“He lets the engineers work to try to improve those things... he looks like a
very promising young driver."


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