Sky Sports F1 pundit Ted Kravitz sees Mercedes opting for either Andrea Kimi Antonelli or 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso as they look to replace 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton in 2025.

Mercedes have a vacancy for 2025 alo💖ngside George Russell after Hamilton’s bombshell move to Ferrari was announced earlier thi♒s month.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff haꦜs insisted that the team are in no rush to make a decision amid a host of names linked with the seat.

Antonelli and Alonso have been heavily linked, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Ocon are thought to be in the running.

In a recent Q&A on the Sky Sports F1 website, Kravitz gave his opini𓂃on on who is likely to replace the seven-time✨ world champion in 2025.

“There are so many options for Mercedes and quite a lot of them are quite good,” Kravitz wrote. “Obviously the most exciting from Mercedes’ point of view is to put Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the car, because they feel he is the next 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen or 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc, he's that promising.

“At the same time, they'll only know that when he completes at least half a full Formula 2 season, and I believe Toto Wolff when he says that we have to be carꦜeful to treat him like a 17-year-old still growing up and not try to rush him too early. It might do more harm than good.

“But that's clearly their number one pr♕iority. They don't have Williams as a junior team to put Antonelli in. Williams have made it pretty clear that they're not in that game for Antonelli, they’re not going to be the university for him in the way they were for George Russell.

“🐟I think that makes it probably most likely that they'll go with Antonelli because they don't want to see him go t🉐o another team, but it does depend on his on his F2 season.”

Kravtiz believes Alonso - who is currently at Aston Martin - would be a “very goo༺d shout” and a “like for like” Hamilton replacement.

“But Plan B, Alonso is a very, very good shout. Just replacing like for like, a guy who's nearing the end of his career but could have as much as two🍒 or three years left at the top of his game.

“He would just be a big name that they need. It's like when he replaced (Sebastian) Vettel at Aston Martin. Lawrence (Stroll) had the right idea. A world champion leaves you, you've got to replace him with a bigger name or a big a name, another world cha♌mpion.

“And it's the same for Hamilton. And it would give the team more spring in their step🗹 to know that they've got Alonso in rather than someone who hasn't won a championship.”