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“Recently there has been some pressure on me with all the rumours about next year, but I have always tried to enjoy it. I’m enjoying the opportunities I have.”
Antonelli has already had a taste of F1 machinery, having tested Mercedes’ 2021 challenger at Austria’s Red Bull Ring in April amid mixed weather conditions.
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“It was a really great experience,” the Formula 2 driver recalled. “I carried that excitement with me through the first lap too, even if the conditions were not the best, it was raining and in the afternoon it even snowed!
“Then on the second day the track improved and in the dry the performance emerged; power, deceleration, aerodynamic load. It was crazy. When I arrived at the track I just opened the door of the garage and was shocked to see how many people were there, both engineers and mechanics, all to run a single car.
“And you have to be able to answer and provide a lot of information when they ask you questions. It took me a while to get used to it, but now everything already seems normal to me.”
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