Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has conceded that the team has put Andrea Kimi Antonelli "under maximum pressure" in his debut Formula 1 season - but says the 19-year-old remains a long-term hire.

Antonelli has enjoyed the highs of a maiden podium and a sprint race pole in 2025, but has endured some more difficult moments; since his podium in Montreal, he has scored just one point.

Some of that misfortune has been down to unreliability in his Mercedes W16, but he also was the master of his own misfortune with a Monaco qualifying shunt, the collision with Max Verstappen at the start of the Austrian Grand Prix, and difficult qualifying sessions of late.

Antonelli also came unstuck in FP1 at the Dutch GP , beaching his car after understeering into the gravel at Turn 9.

Wolff reflected on t

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