He suddenly appears, eighteen years old and the not easy task of replacing Lewis Hamilton. In Miami the first pole of his career, the mini of the sprintenough to be celebrated all over the world. Kimi Antonelli took the scene after the show in Florida: “The performance of the Bolognese pilot recalls what Yamal Lamine has done in the last two years” writes the Spanish Marca, comparing the rookie of Formula 1 with the talent of Barcelona. «In the final attempt, a young man named Andrea Kimi Antonelli – underlines the sports newspaper -, debutant in F1 and on this Miami track, he came out, obtaining the best time and his first position on the grid. He turned 18 last August and some said it was madness to put him in place of Hamilton, but he passed Russell (5/o) as if it were an veteran and already aims to become a star in an F1 that is changing quickly ». And always in Spain Mundo Deportivo speaks of Antonelli’s “Bombazo” stressing that “the pole sprint is sensation at the Miami GP of the young star and debutant”.
AS talks about Antonelli’s “talent, the boy who has only taken his license for a few months, celebrated raising his fist out of the car, leaving the whole world of Formula 1 speechless. The talent has no age and advances at great speed”. Also in Argentina the Clarin exalts Antonelli, “the youngest poleman in the 75 years of F1 history”. In America and Imghilterra the word ‘shock’ to define the result of the Italian driver, “the teenager” writes The Athletic. “The eighteen year old Kimi Antonelli makes the history of the F1» The title of USA Today. Even the BBC bows to the “youngest on pole of the F1. Antonelli of Antonelli was an exceptional performance, capable of showing some of the enormous potential that Mercedes saw in him when he chose him to replace Hamilton this year “.