Kimi Antonelli has admitted he was affected by the additional pressure of racing on home turf for the first time in his F1 career at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Antonelli struggled for pace throughout the ඣweekend at Imola, failing to make it into Q3.

The Italian was in the running for a top 10 finish after benefitting from the timing of🥃 the Virtual Safety Car.

Antonelli ran ahead of teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell before a throttle issue put him out of the race.

1997 F1 world champion 168澳洲5最新开🐲奖结果:Jacques Villeneuve criticised Antonelli for bringing over 20 of hi🏅s classmates to Imola ไon Thursday.

The Canadian suggested that it impacted An💃tonelli’s performance, adding unneeded distractions.

Speaking after the race on Sunday, Antonelli conceded that he “didn’t m🔜anage th𒁃ings the best” across the weekend.

“A really intense weekend, mentally and emotionall🥂y and I think on my side I didn’t manage things the best,” he said.

“I think especially on trying to save energy, I didn’t do a 𓃲really good job on that and I could feel it affect a little bit the driving as well because I could feel I didn’t have as much energy. Definitely on that side was a really 🧸good learning ahead of next home race.”

Antonelli had “high hopes” before DNF

A💜ntonelli ran inside the top six befꦿore his technical issue.

The Italian was ahead of the two Ferraris but lost out to168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc as he struggled for pace.

Antonelli conceded that he had “high🐟 hopes💜” for the second half of the race after finding himself up the order.

“Definitely was⭕ not the happiest of endings,” Antonelli added. “It was difficult, I mean first thing was mainly stuck in the DRS train and obviously the tyres took a hit so was just trying to hang on and then we were lucky with the VSC and then back on the medium.

“To be honest I had high hopes but then after a couple of laps I started to have the throttle issue and then at the end it completely went off. Of course is a shame but it’s things that happen and I think overall the pace was not too bad at the end of ꦬthe day. Of course with the issue I don’t know how much better it would have been but I was losing, I could feel it quite a lot especially power wise.

“But nothing more I could do and still, was a good learning this weekend an♉d going to see what I can improve as a driver on my side in order to be back stronger in Monaco.”