Andrea Kimi Antonelli has admitted he “didn’t want to take any risks” on his second official F1 outing for Me🌳rcedes to avoid repeating his mistake at Monza.

Antonelli crashed out early on during his first FP1 run for Mercedes back at the Italian G🥀rand Prix.

He pushed hard on his first of𒊎ficial outing for the team, ultimately 🍌crashing at Parabolica, just 24 hours before he was unveiled as a Mercedes driver for the 2025 F1 season.

Antonelli adopted a “calmer” approach in Mexico as he stepped into 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s W15.

Reflecting on th🎀e session, he said: “Yeah definitely much better than Monza, I drove much calmer today, I didn’t want to take any risks, I just wanted to do a clean session just to get some laps, understand th💦e car and the tyres a bit more, overall was pretty decent.

“I could feel I wasn’t on the limit but just because it was🎃 my choice, I just wanted to get a clean session overall💜.”

It wasn’t all plain-sailing for the 18-✃year-old as he r♒an over some debris in FP1.

The debris caused some minor damag💙e to the floor of his car and did lead to the first stoppage of the session.

When asked about the debris, he said: “Yeah to be honest I didn’t really see it so yeah was a shame because I got quite a bit of floor damage from it, was quite ൩a big damage, so of course it wasn’t ideal but I managed to get a few laps in the bag.”

Antonelli ended uꦅp 12th fastest overall, 1.2s dow🌸n on Russell’s top time.

He conc༺eded he was “surprised” by how much grip the soft tyre had ꦛwhen completing his fast lap.

“I was trying to build the confidence lap by lap and also it was my first time o𝄹n the track so I was trying to learn as much as possible,” he added.

“Of course on the soft the step 🗹in grip was quite big, also because  on hard I was doing consecutive laps I wasn’t doing one cool one push, so I cﷺouldn’t really try the single lap work, so I went on soft and I felt a lot more grip and didn’t really use it as I was surprised by the amount of grip.”