Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Friday 02 May 2025 at 11:24 p.m.
Impressive, this Friday in Miami during the Sprint qualifications, Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) offered himself at only 18 years old his very first pole in F1. The Italian will start on Saturday in front of the McLaren of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.
First pole for Kimi Antonelli. While waiting probably to afford the same performance one day (probably very quickly) on classic qualifications, the Italian prodigy of the Mercedes stable can already boast of having signed the pole position of Sprint qualifications, this Friday during the Miami Grand Prix. At 18, it is the native of Bologna landed this season in the queen category, behind the wheel of one of the silver arrows, excuse the little, which will start on Saturday in front of the Sprint race. Antonelli, a new poleman and younger in history for a sprint race, had not been the fastest during the Q1 (second time) and Q2 (fourth time) but he had cleared such an impression of power and speed which he seemed capable of creating the sensation during the Q3. And this is precisely what happened, to the delight of the one who had already made very strong by failing at the foot of the podium during the first Grand Prix of the season, in Melbourne, on the occasion of his baptism of fire.
In front of the two McLaren!
Irresistible Friday on this circuit drawn around the hard rock stadium, Andrea Antonelli, whom everyone calls “Kimi” in the paddock, will be ahead of this sumptuous time of 1’26 “482 on Saturday (the quickest round ever made in Miami) on the Oscar Piastri grid, the current leader of the world championship, which will take place with him, and the other McLaren Lando Norris back on this track on which he had made a name last year by winning his very first F1 race. Last moment due to a problem in the stands), will start from 9th place, while Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, eliminated in Q2, will start respectively from the 12th and 13th position.
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