Andrea Kimi Antonelli, a contender to replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, in first Formula 1 test

Mercedes protege Andrea Kimi Antonelli, a contender to replace Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton next season, completed his first F1 test with the team in Austria on Wednesday. The 17-year-old, currently in his maiden season of Formula 2, drove Mercedes' 2021 car, their last constructors' championship-winning contender, at the Red Bull Ring as the first part of a wider programme to help him acclimatise to F1 machinery.

' In the wake of Ferrari reserve Bearman's impressive stand-in debut performance when deputising for Carlos Sainz at short notice at March's Saudi Arabian GP, when the 18-year-old finished seventh having never competed in a full GP race weekend before, Wolff added: 'It was refreshing to look at how competitive he was in Saudi Arabia. 'No free practice, high speed, complicated track, and he was right up there. So Kimi would be doing just fine.

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