Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says there will be times when Andrea Kimi Antonelli makes the team “rip our hair out” during his rookie F1 season in 2025. 18-year-old Antonelli will replace Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton and partner George Russell at Mercedes when he contests his debut F1 season this year.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has admitted there will be times when Andrea Kimi Antonelli makes the team “rip our hair

Compared to his peers, rising star Antonelli skips the queue and lands directly in a coveted Mercedes seat left vacant by none other than Hamilton. The prodigious 18-year-old is backed heavily by Toto Wolff 's decision to forgo the usual route of nurturing talent through customer teams.

Toto Wolff is aiming to “create a new success story” with Andrea Kimi Antonelli at Mercedes following Lewis Hamilton’s switch to Ferrari for the F1 2025 season. Today (December 31) marks Hamilton‘s last official day as a Mercedes driver,

Mercedes have announced an exciting new signing heading into the 2025 season. Whilst Lewis Hamilton's move to Ferrari in the new year has stolen most of the headlines, the end of 2024 also brought about the ending of another Mercedes partnership.