{"id":272463,"date":"2025-07-18T16:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272463\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T16:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:21:11","slug":"kimi-antonelli-handed-surprising-mercedes-f1-exit-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272463\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli handed surprising Mercedes F1 exit verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of F1 fans believe Kimi Antonelli should be loaned out by Mercedes for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mercedes has not yet finalised its driver line-up for next year&#8217;s campaign as Max Verstappen continues to be linked with the squad.<\/p>\n<p>It has been speculated that a potential arrival for Verstappen would likely see George Russell moved aside.<\/p>\n<p>However, should Mercedes wish to field the line-up of Verstappen and Russell, it could opt to shift its rookie prodigy Kimi Antonelli elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RacingNews365 <\/strong>asked you, the fans, if you thought Mercedes should look to loan Antonelli out for next year.<\/p>\n<p>Just over half of F1 fans believe it would be the right choice for Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight per cent of votes state Antonelli should be kept on at Mercedes, making those two options the most popular.<\/p>\n<p>However, six per cent of fans think Antonelli should be demoted to a reserve driver role next year at the Brackley-based squad.<\/p>\n<p>See the full results of the poll below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half of F1 fans believe Kimi Antonelli should be loaned out by Mercedes for the 2026 season. Mercedes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272464,"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-272463","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\/114875156645703455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272463","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=272463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}