From left, Mercedes’ George Russell, Andrea Kimi Antonelli and team principal Toto Wolff stand next to the new Formula One car during the Formula One 2025 season launch event in London on Feb 18. — AFP
THE first appearance in a Formula 1 paddock for Andrea Antonelli, the new driver for Mercedes, came at the 2014 German Grand Prix, when he was seven. It wasn’t authorised.
“My dad decided to hide me inside a stack of tyres and wheel me through on a trolley,” Antonelli, also known as Kimi, said in an interview provided by his team.
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