Antonelli\u2019s victory at the Miami Grand Prix<\/a>. \u201cHe has a killer of a team mate that is extremely fast.<\/p>\n\u201cThe others are catching up in performance, and we want to play the long game. He can hopefully win many Championships over 10 years, 15 years. We don’t want to stumble now with these huge expectations that will sit on him because the moment he has a bad race \u2013 which will happen, where he makes a mistake \u2013 people will say maybe Kimi is not the one superstar that we thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet’s keep that trajectory. It’s a share price that’s going up. He’s 19 years old. I don’t think I was able to take my own flight when I was 19 and slide my way to the terminal of the airport, so it’s incredible what he’s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also recognised Antonelli\u2019s significant progress since his first campaign in F1, even though none of the youngster\u2019s victories have been entirely straightforward amid tight competition \u2013 he has had to recover lost positions throughout several races, and has experienced near-misses such as running deep whilst leading the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Wolff explained: \u201cWhen you think about what we said last year, it’s exactly how his performance, how his development happened. We had these great ups and moments of brilliance and then moments where he was allowed to make mistakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed to calibrate and continue to mentor him whilst having pressure on him. He’s able to analyse it, but then don’t overthink it. He compartmentalises it \u2013 okay, I made a mistake, I put it away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year we start the season, he’s done Grands Prix, he’s worked with the team, he knows the pressure that the media puts upon him. Nevertheless, we just really need to stay kind here because such a success for such a young man at that stage, all of Italy will be on him.<\/p>\n
“The family and us, we are really the first ones actually to calm [him] down. Marco [Antonelli’s father] is pretty good at keeping his son grounded, even when he’s winning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff has emphasised that Kimi Antonelli will have to play the \u201clong game\u201d by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-668596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668596","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=668596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}