Formula 1 newcomer Andrea Kimi Antonelli has surprisingly secured the pole position for the second sprint race of the Formula 1 season and powdered a age record by Sebastian Vettel.
In qualification in Miami, the 18-year-old Mercedes pilot relegated the McLaren stars Oscar Piatri and Lando Norris, who have dominated the previous season.
This means that Antonelli is the latest polesitter in Formula 1. The Italian is clearly understood the previous record of the four -time world champion Vettel, who was 21 years old in 2008 at the great price of Italy in Monza.
“I had a lot of confidence, I got everything together in the last round,” said a radiant Antonelli: “It will certainly be a different feeling to start from the front. But I can hardly wait.”
“The Kimi only got his driver’s license seven or eight months ago, has never been to Miami and puts the car on the pole here. This is a announcement,” said Mercedes Motorsport Department Toto Wolff at “Sky”.
World champion Max Verstappen, who had traveled to Florida because of the birth of his daughter Lily, secured fourth place. Record world champion Lewis Hamilton put his Ferrari in seventh place. Nico Hülkenberg (Emmerich) reached the good eleventh place with the inferior clean.
After the sprint race (6:00 p.m. CEST), qualifying (10:00 p.m.) for the Grand Prix is still on the program on Saturday. This takes place in Miami on Sunday (22:0Y).
Piatri, three-time winner of the season, leads the driver World Cup after five racing weekends with a ten points ahead of Norris. Verstappen is two more points behind.