What is in a name? The Mercedes Formula 1 Toto Wolff team has his answer when it comes to 18-year-old Andrea Kimi Antonelli.

It is the Italian, who has taken a resume of seven times the world champion Lewis Hamiltonan Andrea or a chemistry? Or both? Antonelli It’s quiet about that. For Wolff, it is a matter of performance.

“Kimi, you are not an Andrea today,” Austrian said on the radio team while Antonelli took the pole position for Miami Grand Prix sprint last Friday, becoming the youngest F1 driver in a pole of any kind.

Kimi, a name known to every F1 fan from the 2007 Ferrari Champion Raikkonen chemistrySounds strict and is quickly approved by commentators, while Andrea is the one who uses Wolff – as a joke between them according to the inner team – when things could have gone better.

In Miami the last time, it was a weekend of Kimi and Andrea.

After qualifying at the pole for Sprint, Antonelli ended the 10th – but moved back to seventh after penalties for some of those in front.

He and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen He collided in Pitlane due to an uncertain release from Red Bull for whom the world champion was punished four times. Antonelli drew Plaudits for how he treated the incident, avoiding something worse by continuing Pitlane rather than receiving his planned stop.

He qualified the third for Sunday’s race, with the teammate George Russell Fifth, but the sixth ended with the third Russian.

Wolff told reporters, referring to chemistry throughout, that Antonelli’s only speed was a high point.

“This is another test of his talent and a good indicator of how the future can be,” He added, admitting that the Italian had no experience in managing tires and finding the right references.

“(Race Peter Engineer) Bono (Bonnington) really tried to guide it, but when you are in that car, it is not easy. And I think it’s just a part of the learning curve, it’s nothing that is disappointing or not.

“Overall, I go away with the feeling that he has done a good job.”

Antonelli has scored in five of his six competitions, also becoming the youngest driver who led a Formula One race and set the fastest lap when he did so in Japan.

He is the sixth in the standings with 48 points, seven more than Ferrari’s Hamilton and more than four times more than the combined five other novices.