MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Kimi Antonelli, the 18-year-old rookie driver for Mercedes, has made Method One historical past on the 2025 Miami Grand Prix.
Antonelli, whose birthday is Aug. 25, 2006, received pole place for the Miami Grand Prix Dash race, turning into the youngest pole sitter in any race format in Method One historical past.
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Antonelli completed with a lap time of 1:26.482 throughout dash qualifying, marking the quickest lap ever in 4 years of the Miami Grand Prix race.
“It was a really tense qualifying. I felt actually good since this morning and I felt assured going into qualifying. That was the mindset. I put principally all the things collectively. … I’m actually comfortable to get the primary pole,” Antonelli mentioned in a post-qualifying interview.
“Tomorrow’s gonna be good to begin (in) the entrance row. It is gonna be a bit of a distinct ceiling. However I actually gonna await tomorrow and to see how we are able to do within the Dash after which within the qualifying, as nicely.”
Antonelli and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, the present factors chief within the F1 Drivers’ standings with 99 factors, will begin on the entrance row.
Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli talks to the media after profitable the pole throughout F1 Miami Grand Prix Dash Race Qualifying.
McLaren’s Lando Norris, the 2024 Miami GP winner, will begin the Dash race in third, forward of Crimson Bull’s Max Verstappen, who received the 2022 and 2023 Miami GPs.
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Mercedes’ George Russell will begin fifth, whereas Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton will begin from P6 and P7, respectively.
Williams driver Alex Albon will begin in P8, Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar is in P9, and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso rounds out the highest 10.
The Miami Grand Prix Dash Race begins on Might 3 at midday ET on ESPN, and qualifying for the Grand Prix will observe at 4 p.m. on ESPN.
The Miami Grand Prix is at 4 p.m. ET on Might 4 (ABC and ESPN).
