The Latest Breaking News from Andrea Kimi Antonelli

Curtain raiser will provide welcome return to cars racing instead of speculation and drama in buildup to new season

That’s certainly the view of Esteban Ocon after Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari for next season caught most of the paddock by surprise and left a prime seat open at Mercedes.

Formula 1's main support championship bode farewell to its long-serving Dallara-built F2 2018 chassis at the end of last year, with this year marking the first season for its bold new car also built by the Italian manufacturer that boasts radically revamped aerodynamics in a bid to boost racing and…

Theo Pourchaire won the 2023 F2 Championship, but he will not return to the series in 2024 as he evaluates a switch to Japan's Super Formula series and continues to be Sauber F1’s reserve driver.  

Antonelli is being promoted to F2 with Prema for 2024, in the wake of his success in the Formula Regional European Championship this year. 

A two-time European karting champion, the Italian has made a strong impression on the junior categories to date by winning the Italian and ADAC Formula 4 titles with Prema in his first season of single-seater racing in 2022.

Discussions are ongoing surrounding the Italian 17-year-old’s future, including the suggestion that he might progress directly to Formula 2, bypassing F3.

There are 20 drivers on the current Formula 1 grid, and some of them have been at the top of the sport for a very long time.

F1 young driver programmes take drivers in lower tiers and trains them to be F1 drivers, but which drivers are in them and which teams do they belong to?