Toto Wolff has su♍ggested that in hindsight Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s first outing for Mercedes shouldn’t have been on home soil at Monza.

Antonelli was handed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell’s Merꦏcedes for FP1 at the Italian Grand Prix last month.

The 18-year-old will make his full-time debut for Mercedes in 2025, replacing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, thus the FP1 session was a chance to see what he could do during an official F1 session.

While Antonelli showed blistering pace initially, he quickly found the barriers within the f🍰irst part of the session, crashing at Parabolica.

Speaking 🅘to Autosport, Wolff reflected on Antonelli’s fir🔯st outing.

“I wouldn’t say it was a mistake, but I think we weren’t completely right in assessing the pressures that he coulওd find himself under,” Wolff said. “Why that is, is that we talked about it, and how to approach the session.

“He has been brilliant in testing. He has never put a single foot wrong in the many thousands🐼 of kil🧸ometres that he’s done.

“But it’s a different ball game if you’re an Italian driver, you’re 18 years old in Monza and it’s🧜 your first opportunity.

“Maybe if we had considered that as a risk factor against the set of data we had from him, probably it would have been wise to give him an FP1 that would have been in a totally different time zone than Italy. But he will learn a lot from that𒊎🤡.”

It was revealed afterwards that Anto⛦nelli showed “outstandin♏g speed” ahead of his shunt.

Despite the crash,𒀰 Wolff b⛦acked Antonelli’s approach.

“I thought it’s not good fo𝔉r him, 𓃲because I thought it’s a shame for him,” Wolff added.

“He was so quick, and that was his first session i🅰n Italy, about to be announced as a driver, which everybody pre-empted.

“I like his approach. He’s fast on the first lap out of the pits,ꦆ and that is what he’s demonstrated. Obviously, I would have enjoyed him being on the leaderboard hi𒁃gh up and that was taken away because the car flew - and some of those speeds were only achieved much later during the weekend.

“Obviously he was too fast for the c𒈔ondition of the track and for the car at that stage, so it was balancing the ambition, the motivation and the skill versus a🌃lso the experience that FP1 is FP1.

“I knew that tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhat was going to hurt him, that was going to hurt him emotionalℱly.”