{"id":151463,"date":"2025-09-21T16:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151463\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:17:11","slug":"russell-podium-and-antonelli-near-miss-lift-mercedes-above-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151463\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell podium and Antonelli near miss lift Mercedes above Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Kavi Khandelwal<\/p>\n

George Russell secured a second-place podium and his teammate, Kimi Antonelli scored a fourth place result for the team at the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.\u00a0Despite these results, the two drivers shared different emotions.\u00a0This team result facilitated Mercedes to overtake Ferrari in the Constructors’ Championship at P2.<\/p>\n

\"George<\/p>\n

George Russell is currently fourth in the Drivers’ Championship | Credit: Formula One<\/p>\n

Russell, who finished second, believed his result was a reward for a clean and composed drive in a race where many rivals faltered.<\/p>\n

He stated: “It was a really strong race to be honest.\u00a0I think mainly just down to staying out of trouble, you know.\u00a0I don’t think we did anything spectacular.\u00a0It was just a lot of people made a lot of mistakes this weekend between qualifying and the race.”<\/p>\n

The Briton was quick to temper expectations for the upcoming races, attributing the team’s strong performance to the cold conditions which favour their car.<\/p>\n

“No, I mean temperatures are cold here,” Russell explained.\u00a0“It was more of a case of keeping temperature in the tyre, which is where we excel.\u00a0You know, when you look at Vegas last year or Canada this year.\u00a0So going to Singapore I think will be a bit of a different story.”<\/p>\n

\"Kimi<\/p>\n

Kimi Antonelli finished two seconds behind Carlos Sainz | Credit: Formula One<\/p>\n

On the other side of the garage, Antonelli expressed satisfaction with his fourth-place finish but admitted to a sense of disappointment after coming so close to a trophy.<\/p>\n

The young Italian said: “It was a much better race compared to Monza.\u00a0And, you know, it’s a bit disappointing still because I was really hoping for the podium and, you know, it was so close.”<\/p>\n

Despite missing out on personal silverware, Antonelli was focused on the significant points advantage gained over their rivals, Ferrari, in the World Constructors’ Championship.<\/p>\n

“Still a decent result, especially for the team,” he commented.\u00a0“You know, we gained a lot of points on Ferrari.\u00a0So that’s definitely positive.”<\/p>\n

In contrast to his teammate’s cautious outlook, Antonelli hopes the team can build on this performance.<\/p>\n

He concluded: “Hopefully, you know, we can carry this momentum into Singapore next week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Kavi Khandelwal George Russell secured a second-place podium and his teammate, Kimi Antonelli scored a fourth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-151463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}