168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell sees the prospect of partnering Andrea Kimi Antonelli as a “great opportunity fo🐟r Mercedes to build into the future” in 2025.

The identity of Russell’s teammate for the 2025 F1 season is still unclear following 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton’s shock decision to join Ferrari.

Antonelli, who is a Mercedes junior driver currently racing in F2, is thought to 🧸be top of Mercedes’ shortlist.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has publicly flirted with the idea of signing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, part꧑icularly with the new engine rules in mind, combined with Red Bull’s off-track turmoil.

How꧂ever, it’s looking increasingly likely that Verstappen will remain at Red ♔Bull for 2025 at least, paving the way for Antonelli to get the seat.

Antonelli has already received the backing of Hamilton, with the seven-time world champion declaring at Imola that he’d go for the 17-ye🌼ar-old if he was in Wolff’s sho✅es.

Speaking to select media including 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:ltxcn.top ahead of the Monaco Gran💙d Prix, Russell offered his verdict on potentially teaming 𝕴up with Antonelli next year.

“I think Kimi is a fantastic driver,” Russell said. “Obvio♈usly he’s racing in Formula 2 this year but he’s no doubt goin💖g to be an F1 driver in the future.

“He’s a fellow junior driver as well,🌳 coming through the ranks as I did with the team. I think it makes for a great opportunity for Mercedes to build into the future but as I said before, I welcome anybody as my teammate.

“I feel likꩲe I have a pretty good teammate right now as it is. I welcome anyb🍃ody.”

Mercedes are in no rush to make a decision on who Russell’🍷s teammates will be as Sky’s Craig Slater reported that he expects an announcement to come൲ in either August or September.

Despite the in✤tense specula♔tion around Antonelli, Wolff insisted in Austria that there’s no need to “rush it”.

“We are hyping that young man for a long time now and he will be very good and a great driver ℱone day in F1, but he’s 17, 14 months ago he drove an F4 car,” Wolff added.

“And there’s so much expectations in Italy and we are a little bit guilty also of that, and I think we should let him do his F2 thing and deliver results and not be too carried away with what could be or should be, you know, look at George he won F3, F2 in his rookie year, and at the same time Kimi has delivered in those junior series and is in F2 now🍷 so we’ll see, he’s going to be in F1 one day but let’s not rush it.”