12/05/2025 14:41
Toto Wolff will skip the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola, the
second time the Mercedes team principal has missed an F1 weekend
this season. Whilst the first, at the Japanese Grand Prix, has
become a regular round for the 53-year-old to not travel to, the
second means Wolff will not be trackside for Kimi Antonelli's first
home race in F1 - but for good reason. The Austrian will be
attending his son's graduation in the United States, instead of
making the trip to Italy, RacingNews365 can confirm. Mercedes chief
communications officer, Bradley Lord, will therefore assume some of
Wolff's usual responsibilities for the seventh round of the F1
season, as he also did at Suzuka. George Russell and Antonelli head
into the weekend fresh of a strong Miami Grand Prix, in which the
former secured his fourth podium finish of the campaign and the
latter took his first pole in F1, for the shorter sprint race. The
British driver is currently only 38 points behind drivers'
championship leader Oscar Piastri and the Brackley-based team
comfortably lies second in the constructors' standings on 141
points to Red Bull's 105.
