Andrea Kimi Antonelli has admitted he “didn’t want to take any risks” on his second official F1 outing for Mercedes to 𒉰av🌌oid repeating his mistake at Monza.

Antonelli crashed out early on during his first FP1 run for Mercedes back a⭕t the Italian Grand Prix.

He pushed hard on his first official outing for the team, ultimately crashing☂ at Parabolica, just 24 hours before he was unveiled a൩s 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 the 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 the car and the tyres a bi꧒t more, overall was pretty dece🐬nt.

“I could feel I wasn’t on෴ the li🌊mit but just because it was my choice, I just wanted to get a clean session overall.”

It wasn’t all plain-sailin🌠g for the 18-year-old as he ran over some debris in FP1.

The debris caused some minor damage to the floor of his car andಞ 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 a big damage, so of c🌄ourse it wasn’t ideal but I managed to get a few laps in the bag.”

Antonelli ended up 12th fastest ove🗹rall, 1.2s down on Russell’s top time.

He conceded he was “surprised” by how much grip the soft tyre had whe💎n completing his fast lap.

“I was trying to build the confidence lap by la🅠p and also it was my first time on 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 couldn’t really try the single lap work, so I went on soft an🌳d I felt a lot more grip and didn’t really use it as I was surprised by the amount of grip.”