a similar off during FP1 at Zandvoort<\/a> last time out, Antonelli said: \u201cI mean, I just pushed a bit too hard for the grip in the moment. It was a shame. The day was looking good; I had a good FP1 and then the start of FP2 was looking strong.<\/p>\n\u201cMy confidence is still high, just obviously tomorrow I will have to do a bit of a different programme [in FP3]. We\u2019ll try to be ready for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI felt pretty confident [before that]. We were moving in the right direction with the set-up. Obviously it\u2019s a shame to miss laps, but on my side I\u2019ll try to get ready and to deliver the best job tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Saturday\u2019s action and what might be possible when it comes to Qualifying, Antonelli is hoping the \u201camazing\u201d home atmosphere can spur him on to a strong result in what looks set to be another ultra-close session.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Qualifying is going to be very tight, as always,\u201d he said. \u201cIt looks pretty close out there \u2013 in four-tenths there were 10 cars [at the end of FP2]. It\u2019s going to be very tight.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as I said, the pace felt pretty good today. We\u2019ll just try to deliver the best job as possible and try to start as far forward as possible tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the other side of the Mercedes garage, George Russell ground to a halt in the closing stages of FP1 with a hydraulics issue, but he got back out on track for the start of FP2 and ended the day in 10th position.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a tricky day to be honest,\u201d Russell said afterwards. \u201cI think always when you come to Monza, you\u2019re back on that low downforce [package], so the car\u2019s sort of floating around and the rear\u2019s pretty loose. It didn\u2019t feel spectacular out there for us today.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously it\u2019s very close on the leaderboard; I think I was P10 but only three-tenths off \u2013 usually three-tenths would be just behind the McLarens. It\u2019s tight, I expect that to be the same tomorrow, and I\u2019m sure we can make some improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli has admitted that he simply \u201cpushed a bit too hard\u201d too early during second practice for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-122058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}