Kimi Antonelli conceded that he has been \u201coverdriving the car\u201d during the weekend so far in Barcelona, with the Italian ending Qualifying in third place.<\/p>\n
While Antonelli<\/a> continues to hold a significant lead of 66 points in the World Championship standings<\/a>, it was Mercedes<\/a> team mate George Russell<\/a> who took the momentum on Saturday at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, surging to pole position ahead of Ferrari<\/a>\u2019s Lewis Hamilton<\/a>.<\/p>\n Antonelli had to settle for third place, marking the first time this season that he has not started from the front row.<\/p>\n Reflecting on his Qualifying session, the 19-year-old explained that he had not being feeling comfortable so far in Barcelona, a weekend in which he missed FP1 while reserve driver Fred Vesti took over driving duties, while traffic affected his running in FP3.<\/p>\n \u201cEven though I missed FP1, I think this weekend I didn\u2019t have enough pace [over a] single lap,\u201d said Antonelli. \u201cI\u2019ve been overdriving the car and conditions are very tricky, very slippery, very hot, and the tyres have just been running away a little bit from me.<\/p>\n \u201c[I\u2019ve been] just struggling to extract the maximum out of them for the whole lap. I think not ideal, but now we\u2019ll focus onto tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking ahead to Sunday\u2019s race, the 19-year-old remains optimistic about what might be possible from his grid slot.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be important to get a good start \u2013 it\u2019s a long run into Turn 1, so I\u2019m not in a bad position, to be fair,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n \u201cThen it\u2019s going to be important to really make the best out of the tyres, manage them well because it\u2019s very hot and probably we\u2019ll see a lot of stops as well tomorrow because it\u2019s going to be hard to manage them.<\/p>\n \u201cI think race pace was good in FP2, so hopefully tomorrow we\u2019ll have an even better race pace and we can progress.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli conceded that he has been \u201coverdriving the car\u201d during the weekend so far in Barcelona, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-491264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}