F1 is heading into its biggest ever regulation change next season, with new rules for both chassis and engine, and it is unknown which team will be in best shape.<\/p>\n
Russell, who has won two races in 2025 and is fourth in the drivers’ championship with six races remaining, said: “I am really proud to be continuing our journey together. Next year will mark my 10th since I signed with Mercedes back in 2017.<\/p>\n
“It has been such a long and successful partnership with the team so far and I can’t wait to see what lies ahead, particularly as we embark on regulation changes.<\/p>\n
“We are all incredibly focused on making that a success and, for me personally, building on what has been my strongest season in F1 to date.”<\/p>\n
Antonelli will be moving into his second season after replacing Lewis Hamilton in the team following the seven-time champion’s move to Ferrari.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old Italian took a pole position for the sprint race in Miami in May and his maiden podium finish in Canada in June, where Russell took his first win of the season.<\/p>\n
But Antonelli has had an up-and-down year, and a string of errors through the European season led to Wolff calling his performance at the Italian Grand Prix “underwhelming”.<\/p>\n
He has since finished fourth and fifth in the Azerbaijan and Singapore Grands Prix.<\/p>\n
Antonelli has admitted that the pressure has got to him at times in his rookie season, but the team believe in his potential as a future winner.<\/p>\n
He said: “I’m super-excited to be continuing with the team. I’ve learnt so much in my first season in F1, both in the good moments and the more challenging ones.<\/p>\n
“Those have all made me stronger, not only as a driver but as a team-mate too. I want to say thank you to Toto and everyone at Brackley and Brixworth for their continued support and faith in me.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F1 is heading into its biggest ever regulation change next season, with new rules for both chassis and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-201871","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\/201871","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=201871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}