The decision by Mercedes to promote Kimi Antonelli into Lewis Hamilton’s race seat for 2025 would have sounded crazy just 12 months ago. At the time, Kimi Antonelli was still fighting to win the Formula Regional Championship – known as FRECA – against other teenagers, some of whom had since been promoted to Formula 3. Antonelli not only won the championship but then went on to skip that step, immediately racing with Prema in F2 alongside Oliver Bearman. READ MORE: Who is 2025 Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli? Everything to know Joshua Durksen was the only other driver to make that jump, a…
