Antonelli wants answers for his struggles at Imola

On the again of his disappointing first house race in Method One, Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli needs to determine why he struggled all through the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Mercedes driver George Russell displayed eye-catching tempo in qualifying, and a sensible transfer to finish his final push lap in Q3 on Pirelli’s mediums enabled him to battle for pole place.

Beating McLaren’s Lando Norris, the Briton ended up third on the grid. Nevertheless, he misplaced plenty of tyre life preventing Norris firstly, and pitted very early because of this.

He endured then some misfortune with the digital security automobile, however he recovered some locations by not stopping below the late Security Automobile. Nevertheless, being on older tyres, his former team-mate Lewis Hamilton picked him off, and he finally completed the Imola spherical in P7.

His team-mate Andrea Kimi Antonelli struggled for tempo in qualifying, ending up solely thirteenth on the grid on house turf. Whereas he displayed higher race tempo, he stopped on monitor with a throttle drawback which triggered a protracted security automobile interruption.

Reflecting on his first house race, Antonelli stated that whereas he loved the help of his passionate Italian followers, he might want to enhance his tyre administration.

“At present was a disappointing technique to finish my first house Grand Prix. You by no means wish to have a DNF however for it to return right here at Imola is much more bitter.

“That stated, I’ll treasure the reminiscence of this weekend. The help from the followers has been unimaginable. They stored cheering for me each lap, regardless of the struggles with our efficiency.

“Sadly, we simply didn’t have the tempo to battle for the highest 5 at the moment. I made a very good begin regardless of being on the Exhausting compound, however the pace within the automobile wasn’t there to maneuver ahead after that.

Antonelli continued: “I defended actually laborious in that first stint and managed to maintain Lewis (Hamilton) behind me. We took benefit of the Digital Security Automobile to make our cease however after that, I began to have a difficulty with the throttle.

“I began to lose energy on the straights and each lap it was getting worse earlier than we needed to retire the automobile. We now have the chance to bounce again right away in Monaco so we’ll take the learnings from right here and apply them to subsequent weekend.”

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