{"id":388488,"date":"2025-09-01T03:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388488\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:49:10","slug":"mercedes-to-continue-with-george-russell-and-kimi-antonelli-in-2026-says-toto-wolff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/388488\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes to continue with George Russell and Kimi Antonelli in 2026, says Toto Wolff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Russell had already said at the start of the Dutch weekend that there was no doubt he would be staying at Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We wanted to take the summer off to relax and reset, but positively moving in the right direction. But I think as there is no time pressure from the team side and no time pressure from our side, we&#8217;re just ensuring it&#8217;s done properly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rookie Antonelli had another difficult weekend at Zandvoort, earning a penalty for crashing out of the race with Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc. He finished 16th after being given an additional penalty for speeding in the pit lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Wolff said he had no doubt about the 19-year-old Italian&#8217;s potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we gave him the opportunity, it was also saying that we would give him a year of learning, and there would be moments where we&#8217;d tear our hair out, and there would be other moments of brilliance. And I think this weekend pretty much sums that up,&#8221; Wolff said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My 100% belief is in him in the long term and that is just part of the learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russell had already said at the start of the Dutch weekend that there was no doubt he would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-388488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115127003701413987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388488","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=388488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}