02/05/2025 23:36
Kimi Antonelli has hailed his record-breaking Miami Grand Prix
sprint qualifying lap as "mighty" en route to shattering an
all-time Sebastian Vettel record. Antonelli has become the youngest
driver to start an F1 race in any format on pole position at 18
years, eight months, eight days. It beats Vettel's mark of 21
years, two months, 11 days from the 2008 Italian Grand Prix,
although the German retains the youngest-ever grand prix
pole-sitter record. It is also the first time Antonelli has
out-qualified team-mate George Russell, having already taken two F1
records from Max Verstappen in the Japanese GP of youngest driver
to lead a race and youngest to set the fastest lap. Reflecting on
the qualifying, Antonelli described his "good feeling" throughout
the day's running. "It was a very intense qualifying, and I felt
really good since this morning, and I felt confident going into
qualifying," he explained. "The last lap was mighty, and I put
everything together, and it was nice that it all came together
nicely. I'm really happy to get the first pole. "It is going to be
nice to start on the front row, it is going to be a different
feeling, but I cannot wait for tomorrow to see how we can do in the
sprint and then in qualifying as well."
