Overview

• Team boss Toto Wolff attributes Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s recent dip to an inconsistent W16 and frames the rookie’s year as a learning process.
• George Russell argues Antonelli’s underlying speed outstrips his results, noting a six‑tenths gap when Russell took Canada pole versus only three‑tenths in Spa despite a Q1 exit for the rookie.
• Mercedes introduced a revised rear suspension during the European rounds but concluded the change was wrong after four grands prix and reverted to the previous specification.
• Antonelli says qualifying remains his weak point as he learns to judge the car’s one‑lap limit, describing the margin for error as extremely fine.
• The rookie’s form tailed off after his Montreal podium, with crash retirements in Austria and Silverstone and low‑yield weekends in Belgium and Hungary leaving just one point from four races.