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Recognized for his exceptional talent, Mercedes promoted Antonelli directly to Formula 2 in 2024, skipping Formula 3. He races for the Prema team and has already won races at Silverstone and Hungary, becoming the youngest multiple winner in Formula 2 history. His rise has coincided with Lewis Hamilton's move to Ferrari in 2025, creating a new seat at Mercedes that Antonelli is expected to fill soon.
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| Date of Birth | 25 August 2006 |
| Age | 19 Years |
| Birth Place | Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Horoscope | Virgo |
| Country | Italy |
Height, Weight & Measurements
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Antonelli selected the number 12 as his personal driver number in Formula One, citing inspiration from his idol, Ayrton Senna; he also used the number throughout his 2022 and 2023 title-winning seasons in junior formulae. He passed his driving test six weeks before his Formula One debut, and continued studying online for his maturità through the first half of his rookie season. Antonelli was gifted a GT 63 S by Mercedes-AMG that year, but is unable to drive it in Italy for three years as its power-to-weight ratio exceeds national limits for new drivers six-fold. His racing helmet uses a base colour of Savoy blue, with green, white and red details, inspired by the national colours of Italy.
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Dating & Relationship Status
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His father Marco is a sportscar racing driver and owner of the San Marino-based AKM Motorsport racing team, who have competed in the Italian F4 Championship since 2022. He formerly operated Antonelli Motorsport, who competed in the Blancpain GT Series, Porsche Supercup and International GT Open, amongst winning the 2018 Italian GT Championship.
Antonelli shares his middle name with the forename of Kimi Räikkönen—the 2007 Formula One World Drivers' Champion; Antonelli has stated that the name was given by Enrico Bertaggia to his father, who wanted his son to have a foreign name after "Andrea", and that he was not named after Räikkönen. He attended ITCS Gaetano Salvemini in Casalecchio di Reno, studying international relations and marketing, and learned to speak English during his race weekends. His father initially wanted him to play association football in Italy before entering him into karting, as Antonelli showed more passion for motorsport.
In May 2023, Antonelli debuted in sportscar racing, competing for his father's AKM Motorsport outfit in the opening round of the Italian GT3 Championship, driving the Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo. Antonelli won the first race from pole position, before securing third-place in race two with a final-corner overtake on eventual champion Jens Klingmann.
Antonelli co-founded the kart racing team AKM Motorsport by Kart Republic alongside his father in 2023, where he serves as a driver coach and chassis tester.
Since October 2023, Antonelli has been in a relationship with Czech kart racer Eliška Bábíčková, who won the OK class of the Italian Karting Championship that year.
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Education
In summary, Andrea Kimi Antonelli is a young Italian racing prodigy born in 2006, quickly progressing through junior motorsport ranks to reach Formula 2 with the Mercedes-backed Prema team by 2024. While personal details such as physical stats, relationships, and education are not publicly documented, his rapid rise and multiple titles mark him as a major future star in Formula 1 racing.
Antonelli started kart racing at the age of seven and won championships in several categories of the discipline. After attending a summer camp with the Automobile Club d'Italia in 2014, Antonelli was scouted by Giovanni Minardi, who signed him to Minardi Management. He won his first title at the 2015 Trofeo Easykart Italia in the 60 cc class, progressing to win the Easykart International Grand Final that year from twenty-second on the grid. Aged nine, he also placed thirty-first in the WSK Final Cup in 60 Mini. Antonelli entered several major competitions in 2016, achieving top-three finishes in the Italian Cup and Trofeo delle Industrie, as well as the WSK Super Master Series in 2017. He won the third round of the Italian Karting Championship that year at Battipaglia.
Signing to the Mercedes Junior Team in 2018, Antonelli won the WSK Champions Cup, South Garda Winter Cup, and ROK Cup International Final in the Mini class that year, as well as finishing runner-up in the Italian Championship. Antonelli progressed to OK-Junior—the premier under-15 international direct-drive karting category—in 2019, winning the South Garda Winter Cup, WSK Super Master Series, WSK Euro Series, WSK Open Cup, and WSK Final Cup, all with Rosberg Racing Academy. He entered his first Karting European Championship and World Championship that year, finishing runner-up to Marcus Amand at the former and fifth at the latter.
In 2020, Antonelli progressed to the senior direct-drive OK class, aged 13. Amongst finishing third at the South Garda Winter Cup and runner-up to Nikita Bedrin at the WSK Super Master Series, he won the European Championship on his senior class debut aged 14, as well as the WSK Euro Series and Italian Championship, all with Kart Republic. Antonelli retired from the final of the World Championship at Portimão with an injury; he collided with the stationary kart of Maya Weug in wet-weather conditions, suffering a broken left tibia and metatarsus. For his efforts in 2020, Antonelli was named the FIA Karting Rookie of the Year by the CIK-FIA.
