Home GP as World Championship leader for Kimi
Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the three Free Practice sessions of the Italian GP will definitely focus on race pace because the World Championship leader knows he will have to serve a heavy grid penalty as he will introduce a completely new power unit.
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The Mercedes driver has already anticipated that this Monza will not be the last penalty on the starting grid because he will drop another five positions in the future to equip himself with the power unit equipped with ADUO and most likely the component that will be updated to enjoy performance benefits will be the ICE, the internal combustion engine.
There is much concern about what the performance of the cars will be on a track like Monza where it will be extremely difficult to manage energy with very few points to recharge the battery, namely the First Variante and the Roggia chicane.
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Andrea Kimi Antonelli still expects to have even more fun with the 2026 F1 cars in his favorite corner of the temple of speed: “The most beautiful corner for me is Ascari, because it is still very fast, not easy, because you also have to position the car well, and then especially with the changes they have already made since 2024, the curb, the right one, is quite slippery, so the car always moves a little, and especially this year with all the power we have in acceleration it will be a challenging corner, very stimulating.”
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