Kimi Antonelli, with a big problem: finish high school!

The 18 -year -old Italian debuted this season as a starter in F1 with the Mercedes team, but has a debt to the mother: to finish the studies.

The rise of Andrea Kimi Antonelli was meteoric. At age seven, he began to win Karting titles and the 15 already had several European titles. He jumped to the cars in 2021 in Formula 4 Italian. In 2022 he was champion of the Italian and German F4. In 2023 it was crowned in the regional formula of Middle East and European and in 2024 it combined its passage through formula 2 with thousands of kilometers of tests with F1 chassis of Mercedes two years old. In 2019, with just 12, he was captured by the talent development program of the silver arrows and was chosen to replace no less than Lewis Hamilton in the 2025 World Cup. In the midst of such a walk, Antonelli distributed his careers with the school. And just that is bringing some headaches these days.

Kimi is studying the last year of secondary school and is in full stage of final exams. The problem? Runs in formula 1. And little is favored by the Japan Triplet, Baréin and Saudi Arabia that faces the category agenda for the first three weekends of April. Installed in Suzuka, Antonelli talked about the situation

“I am in the last year of studies and I have the final exams. So I am trying at this time to fit a date I can do, but it is quite difficult right now,” said the Boloñéswho scored 22 points in his first two races (Australia and China) and arrived in Japan fifth in the table.

Antonelli discards the possibility of abandoning the studies, he wants the secondary title because, in addition, it is a debt to the mother. “It would be a shame to leave it in the last year. In addition, my mother cares, so I will also do it for her. I am receiving a lot of help from the school, I will not lie, they are sending me things, but it is a great commitment,” he explained.

Kimi also told what his great weakness is: “Mathematics, it is something terrible; I admit it; it is something I have to do, but it is a difficult subject.”