{"id":168669,"date":"2025-06-08T22:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168669\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T22:15:11","slug":"has-kimi-antonelli-lived-up-to-expectations-at-mercedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168669\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Kimi Antonelli lived up to expectations at Mercedes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Antonelli completed his rapid rise to the F1 grid this year as he signed to replace Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli skipped F3 level competition to partake in the F2 series last year before being ushered into a full-time race seat at Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old enjoyed a strong opening phase to his career, scoring 48 points in the opening six rounds.<\/p>\n<p>He also bagged a surprise sprint pole position in Miami, but crossed the line in seventh place at that shorter race.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli has failed to score points at the last three rounds as reliability issues ended his races from Imola and Barcelona, while a qualifying crash in Monaco left him down the order for the grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>But has Antonelli impressed you during his opening stint in F1?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have your say below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli completed his rapid rise to the F1 grid this year as he signed to replace Ferrari-bound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-168669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114650056206147543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}