P1racenews AI automatic summary:
Mercedes prodigy Andrea Kimi Antonelli has been tipped for a possible F1 seat as early as the 2025 season.
The highly-rated 17-year-old Italian driver has made an impressive start to his single-seater career and has been promoted to F2 for this season, racing for Prema. There is speculation that he could potentially land an F1 drive with one of Mercedes’ customer teams in the future. Although there is no room for him at Mercedes, team principal Toto Wolff has a history of placing talented young drivers at other teams to gain experience, as he did with George Russell at Williams. Williams’ driver lineup for 2024 will consist of Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant, but Sargeant’s long-term future is uncertain after a shaky rookie season, while Albon is believed to be attracting interest from bigger teams.
