Andrea Kimi Antonelli has withdrawn from this week’s Tremendous Components winter take a look at at Suzuka Circuit as a result of sickness. Antonelli, who will race full-time for Mercedes in Components 1 subsequent season, additionally withdrew from final weekend’s Components 2 season finale at Abu Dhabi as a result of sickness, ending the yr sixth within the remaining championship standings.
Although he was capable of run 62 laps in immediately’s Abu Dhabi F1 take a look at, Antonelli is not going to make the journey to Japan, the place on Friday he was as a result of run his first laps round Suzuka within the No.14 Rookie Racing Dallara SF23/Toyota.
The 18-year-old Mercedes prodigy was to have shared the observe with a forged of drivers sampling the automobile and the circuit for the primary time, together with Haas F1 newcomer and fellow F2 graduate Oliver Bearman. Bearman will drive the No.7 KCMG Dallara/Toyota on Friday – the third and remaining day of the Suzuka take a look at which is reserved solely for rookie drivers (outlined by Tremendous Components as any driver with three or fewer begins within the sequence).
The primary day of testing, that includes the common Tremendous Components drivers, will happen Wednesday-and each periods will be seen reside on the SFgo streaming service beginning Tuesday evening at 8:00 PM EST for viewers in the US.
