{"id":471232,"date":"2026-02-13T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471232\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:08:14","slug":"toto-wolff-reacts-to-andrea-kimi-antonelli-crashing-his-rare-mercedes-amg-company-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471232\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Wolff reacts to Andrea Kimi Antonelli crashing his rare Mercedes-AMG company car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mercedes\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a> Formula 1 CEO and team principal Toto Wolff has joked about Andrea Kimi Antonelli&#8217;s crash in his new company car, explaining that &#8211; thankfully &#8211; the only thing that was hurt was the Italian driver&#8217;s ego.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli picked up the keys to an exclusive\u00a0Mercedes-AMG GT 63 PRO Motorsport Collectors\u2019 Edition company car, valued at approximately\u00a0\u00a3180,000, ahead of the 2026 F1 season. But after only having the car for a matter of days, he crashed into a guardrail in Italy. Luckily, no other vehicles or people were involved in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;s more embarrassed than anyone else and that&#8217;s the most important thing,&#8221; Wolff told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUoA3R8jHBu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sky Sports Germany<\/a> in Bahrain when asked how much teasing Antonelli had to put up with when he returned to the track.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I immediately wondered if anyone was injured, if he hurt himself, or God forbid, if anyone else was hurt. No, that wasn&#8217;t the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a shame about the great car, but in the end, it was just a car, even if it is the best AMG,&#8221; he added with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli&#8217;s AMG GT 63 PRO 4MATIC+ Motorsport Collectors&#8217; Edition was extremely rare with only 200 units built. The metallic obsidian black base colour, inspired by the 2024 Mercedes F1 car, was complemented by hand-painted silver arrows at the rear and accents in the PETRONAS-turquoise.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash in Serravalle, Italy, was confirmed by Mercedes in an official statement. &#8220;Last Saturday evening, near his home in San Marino, Kimi was involved in a road accident,&#8221; the Brackley outfit explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police attended the scene after being called by Kimi. His was the only car involved and, although the vehicle sustained damage, Kimi was completely unharmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The crash took place before Antonelli flew out to Bahrain for pre-season testing.<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes Formula 1 CEO and team principal Toto Wolff has joked about Andrea Kimi Antonelli&#8217;s crash in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[3032,121187,188569,49,48,578,576,577,1881,82,4503,191759,4962],"class_list":{"0":"post-471232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-andrea-kimi-antonelli","9":"tag-bahrain-international-circuit","10":"tag-bahrain-pre-season-testing","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-f1","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-formula1","16":"tag-mercedes","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-toto-wolff","19":"tag-toto-wolff-reacts-to-andrea-kimi-antonelli-crashing-his-rare-mercedes-amg-company-car","20":"tag-trendingteam"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}