Kimi Antonelli has outlined his desire to consistently produce performances akin to his display Baku in the closing stages of the F1 season.<\/p>\n
The Mercedes rookie enjoyed a strong start to his F1 campaign with consistent point-scoring results early in the year, however during the European leg, he ran into trouble.<\/p>\n
Antonelli often failed to breach the top 10 in qualifying and the race as he struggled with confidence behind the wheel of the Mercedes car.<\/p>\n
Following a particularly difficult home race in Italy, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff labelled his performance as \u201cunderwhelming\u201d.<\/p>\n
Antonelli bounced back with a strong drive to fourth place last time out in Baku, as he voiced his hope of maintaining the positive trajectory across the final seven rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely, Baku was what I needed in terms of a result,\u201d\u00a0Antonelli told media including RacingNews365<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt kind of switched the momentum and also switched the trend. Obviously, I had a negative trend up until then and I really needed a good result.<\/p>\n \u201cNow the goal is to do these results consistently and try to perform even better. But definitely, Baku was really good.\u201d<\/p>\n Antonelli revealed he was upset with his performance in Azerbaijan as he hoped to get onto the podium, finishing just over two seconds down on third place.<\/p>\n \u201cI was really annoyed after the race because I really wanted a podium and I was just so close for the whole race,\u201d Antoneli added.<\/p>\n \u201cBut overall, after a couple of days, I looked back at the whole weekend, and I think it was very positive.<\/p>\n \u201cIn terms of approach and preparation, it was a good standard. So I’ll try to follow that for this weekend and the next few races.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli has outlined his desire to consistently produce performances akin to his display Baku in the closing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470699,"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-470698","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\/115309424432372161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470698","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=470698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}