Miami, Florida -previously in the day during the FIA press conference, Mercedes Team Toto Wolff praised his Rookie driver Kimi Antonelli for “Constant building.”
While the day in the night changed into a hard rock stage, Wolff had another reason to praise the young driver of the team, while at the end of Q3 Antonelli supplied in a thunderous lap to secure his first pole position for the F1 Sprint race of tomorrow.
“Congratulations to Kimi with his first sprint pole position in F1,” Wolff said in the average report of the team after the session. “It was a great round in a tight session and will be a time when he will never forget.
“Although it is good that we will start the Sprint of P1 the sprint, the most important thing we see is the progress we see from Kimi. I kept reading and getting better every weekend.
“He has now updated a session, even if it came in sprint qualification. It is another milestone in his development, and we will continue to support him to maintain this process,” Wolff added.
The Mercedes boss was not the only team member who praised Antonelli. Andrew Shovlin, the Trackside Engineering Director of the team, also participated in the pleasure.
“It’s great to see that Kimi takes a well -rejected sprint post! He looked strong from the first round of FP1, but clearly saved the best to the end,” said Shovlin.
Shovlin also paid tribute to a little history.
“It is a special moment to become the youngest driver who takes a pole position in any size in F1 and a moment that he is currently calculated”, continue with Shovlin. “Our attention will soon go to tomorrow with the sprint and the qualification for the Grand Prix later in the afternoon.”
That was not the only history that Antonelli made on Friday. His final round in qualifications set a new record for the Miami International Autodrome, now in the fourth year according to the Formula 1 schedule.
Completing the praise of the team was not any other George Russell, who qualified fifth for the F1 Sprint Race of tomorrow.
“First, huge congratulations to Kimi! I’m really happy that he is taking his first pole position,” said Russell. “He was very quickly in FP1 from the first round and that is really impressive. It is great for him and the whole team; hopefully he can put that into a strong bus into the Spront of tomorrow.”
As far as the young driver is concerned, Antonelli granted that he had not expected such a result.
“I feel in the clouds. I didn’t expect it, but I felt good in the car,” Antonelli said after a qualification for the official F1 channel.
“I was uble to improve the LP in a lap and discover that existed, and that round all came together. I am super, super happy with that, and now we will.”
Antonelli gets that chance to repeat himself tomorrow when the lights go out for the 19-rounds F1 Sprint Race. He will be confronted with a long task to hold onto P1, because he has the fast McLaren -Duo of Oscar Pietri and Lando Norris who start behind him in P2 and P3 respectively.
Yet the young driver has already made a sub -history in Miami and the weekend has just begun.