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Mercedes poised to name Antonelli as Hamilton's successor

Jun.12 Mercedes' driver lineup for 2025 is complete and ready to be announced, according to the major German newspaper Bild. In Canada, team boss and co-owner Toto Wolff dropped a huge hint, revealing he had told Carlos Sainz that Mercedes would instead be focusing on 'young drivers' for its future. The Austrian personally manages and is grooming 17-year-old prodigy Andrea ‘Kimi' Antonelli towards Formula 1, but there remained some uncertainty as to whether the young Italian would be ready to replace Lewis Hamilton as early as 2025. Bild, however, declared that 'the deal is done'. 'We haven't made a decision for next year yet,' Wolff told Sky Deutschland in Canada, 'but we didn't...
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