Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s qualifying heartbreak in the Styrian mountains proves that even Mercedes’ new gold standard isn’t immune to the Red Bull Ring’s razor-thin margins.
The air at the Red Bull Ring has always been thin, but on Saturday afternoon, Kimi Antonelli found out exactly how suffocating it can be.
For Antonelli, who arrived in Spielberg riding a wave of mid-season momentum, the agony was visceral.
The contrast in the pits was impossible to ignore. While Antonelli grappled with the 'agonizing' near-miss of another pole, his predecessor—and the man he effectively displaced at…
Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s qualifying heartbreak in the Styrian mountains proves that even Mercedes’ new gold standard isn’t immune to the Red Bull Ring’s razor-thin margins.