168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell sees the prospect of partnering Andrea Kimi Antonelli as a 🍰“great o🦋pportunity for Mercedes to build into the future” in 2025.

The identity of Russell’s teammate for the 2025 F1 season is still unclear following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s shock decision to join Ferrari.

Antonelli, who is a Mercedes junior driver currently raciꦏng in F2, is thought to be top of Mercedes’ shortlist.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has publicly flirted with the idea of signing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, particularly with the new engine rulඣes in mind, combined with Red Bull’s off-track turmoil.

However, it’s looking increasingl♉y likely that Verstappen will remain at Red Bull for 2025 at least, paving the way for Antonelli to get the seat.

Antonelli has already received the backing of Hamilton, with the seven-time world champion decla༺🌱ring at Imola that he’d go for the 17-year-old if he was in Wolff’s shoes.

Speaking to select media including 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:mahbx.com ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, Russell of🌄fered his verdict on potentially teaming up with Antonelli next year.

“I think Kimi is a fantastic driver,” Russell said. “Obviously he’s racing in Form🅰ula 2 this year but he’s no doubt going to be an F1 driver in the future.

“He’s a fellow junior driver as well, coming through the ranks as I did with the team. I think it makes for a 🌸great opportunity for Mercedes to build into the future but as I said before, I welcome anybody as my teammate.

“I feel like I have a pretty good teammate right now as it is. I welc💙ome anybody.”

Mercedes are in no rush to make a decision on🐷 who Russell꧒’s teammates will be as Sky’s Craig Slater reported that he expects an announcement to come in either August or September.

Des⭕pite the intense speculation around Antonelli, Wolff insisted in Austria that there’s no need t𝕴o “rush it”.

“We are hyping that young man for a long time now and ๊he will be very good and a great driver one day in F1, but he’s 17, 14 ⛦months ago he drove an F4 car,” Wolff added.

“And there’s so much expectations in Italy and we are a little bit guilty also of that, and I think we should let him do his F2 thing and deliver results and not ღbe too carried away with what could be or should be, you know, look at George he won F3, F2 in his r𓂃ookie year, and at the same time Kimi has delivered in those junior series and is in F2 now so we’ll see, he’s going to be in F1 one day but let’s not rush it.”