Andrea Kimi Antonelli completed his final high school exams just days after scoring his first Formula 1 podium at the Canadian Grand Prix.

The Mercedes rookie, who skipped the New York premiere of the F1 movie in order to fly home to Italy, said he would have “felt guilty” if he quit studying because of his racing career.

“I’m super happy to have finished my exams,” Antonelli told reporters in Austria on Thursday. “Of course I had to miss out on New York, which I think would have been quite cool because I've never been there, and many people said it's a really nice city.

“But at the same time I had to do something just as important: finishing this journey with school, because I've been studying and I've been doing the whole journey all the way up until now.”

The 18-year-old admitt

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