Toto Wolff speaks out on teenage sensation replacing Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton
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Lewis Hamilton’s approaching flight has made room for a astonish entry at the Mercedes group.
Toto Wolff has cautioned against ‘spinning the mind’ of young sensation Kimi Antonelli by proposing him as a potential substitution for Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes in 2025. The seven-time world winner has picked to join Ferrari at the conclusion of the up and coming season, taking off a expanding gap within the Silver Arrows’ driver line-up.
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“I think most imperative at this arrange is that he concentrates on F2. I think in case we begin to turn his mind or unleash rumours within the media on to him, that’s not attending to offer assistance his F2 campaign. He’s fair ventured out of karts a couple of a long time prior, and he’s not indeed 18. So I would or maybe not begin any hypothesis approximately Kimi going into F1 at this arrange.”
The Mercedes boss was sharp to create it clear that he wouldn’t be hurrying the choice with respect to Russell’s future team-mate, including:
“It’s not something I need to be hurried to. I figure that many contracts have been marked a number of weeks prior that we would have looked at. That would have been curiously, but the timing here bit us a bit.”
Whereas Hamilton’s substitution will be an continuous theme of talk about all through the early stages of 2024, the seven-time world winner remains with the group for the up and coming season and will be centered on making a difference Mercedes near the crevice to ruling champions Ruddy Bull in the Constructors’ Championship fight.
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