Toto Wolff explained why the highlights of Andrea Kimi Antonelli ’s rookie Formula 1 season have all come at unfamiliar circuits after he finished second at the Brazilian Grand Prix.

That was the 19-year-old’s second podium of 2025 , after taking third place in Canada, with the other positive highlight of Antonelli’s campaign being when the Mercedes driver took pole for the Miami sprint race.

But those are three tracks he hadn’t previously raced at and usually one would expect a rookie to be stronger around the circuits they visited during their days in the junior formulas.

That hasn’t been the case for Antonelli though, because across the nine mid-season European rounds, he only claimed two point-scores amid a very up-and-down season for the Italian who is seventh in the standings

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