“I simply made a small mistake in theory, an error, but in general it was quite well,” he explained. “I’m not going to lie, I was really nervous.
“I was really scared because I knew I only had that opportunity to do it, because otherwise, once the season starts, I really don’t have time to do it again, so I told me that I really had to do it. It finally went well, so That was a great relief. “
Meanwhile, the team director, Toto Wolff, believes that Antonelli is well prepared for his F1 debut, since for a long time he has been under the wing of Silver Arrows as a junior driver.
“He has been in the team, integrated for so long,” said Wolff. “We know him since he was 11 years old, and in that sense, he has been prepared, he is ready to go and can’t wait.”
Antonelli does not have much to wait until his season begins, with the teenager ready to join the rest of the network in the F1 75 live Launching event of the season will be held at the London O2 on February 18 before Mercedes reveals its new challenger, the W16, to the world February 24Only a few days before the preseason tests in Bahrein February 26-28.