168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Rosberg has told Mercedes not to give their backing to Andrea Kimi Antonelli to replace 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton too hastily.

Teenage starlet Antonelli 𒈔is among the likeliest 🙈candidates to step into Hamilton’s shoes with Mercedes in 2025.

Hamilton is le꧙aving for Ferrari, cr꧅eating a coveted vacancy and giving Toto Wolff a massive decision to make.

But Hamilton’s ex-Mercedes teammate Rosberg thinks Wolff sꩵh🦂ould delay his call.

“Antonelli is definitely a superstar of the future. But, unfortunately, timing-wise it is too early for him🅺.” Rosberg told Sky Sports.

“And too🃏 early for Toto. He needs to wait until somewhat later in the year, as we see how Antonelli d♑oes in Formula 2.

“He needs a strong season in Formula 2 to even m🐟ake it a possibility of going straight to Mercedes.

“Otherwise﷽, if anything, some ti🔜me at Williams would make sense.”

Signs that Antonelli is being seriously considered for a step into F1 next season ramped u🏅p this week, when he took part 🌸in a private test of a 2021 Mercedes W12 at the Red Bull Ring in Austria.

The 17-year-old is due to drive the 2022 car later tꦿhis year, too.

Mercedes missed out on a teenage Max Verstappen so their interest in Antonelli𓂃 arguably suggests they don’t want to make the same mistake twice.

Fernando Alonso is n꧋o longer available after he penned a fresh contract with Aston Martin.

Charles Leclerc and Lando ﷺNorris are coꦅmmitted to Ferrari and McLaren respectively.

Carlos Sainz, who Hamilton wiܫll displace at Ferrari, is still on the market.

Wolff has said: “You can look at 💦it from various perspectives.

“I believe that we are in a rebuild phase. You need to acknowledge that now three years into thes🅰e reg⛄ulations, we have got to do things differently than we've done in the past without throwing overboard what we believe is goodness in the way we operate.

“It could mean putting a young driver in there and givi💧ng him an opportunity with less pressure than fighting for victories immediately, or putting a more experienced driver in the car that can help us dig ourselves out of the current performance picture.”