Antonelli passes his final exams to graduate

Formula 1 rookie Kimi Antonelli passed his last exams to postgraduate from precocious schoolhouse backmost location successful Italy conscionable similar he's been passing different cars connected tracks astir the world: without trouble.

The 18-year-old Mercedes operator made the announcement successful an Instagram communicative Monday, saying "promosso" - "passed" - with a photograph of himself wearing a laurel wreath.

After claiming his archetypal podium effect with a third-place decorativeness astatine the Canadian Grand Prix, Antonelli returned location to Casalecchio di Reno, adjacent Bologna, to instrumentality his exams.

"I was reasonably stressed, due to the fact that I didn't person overmuch clip to study. But I did my best," Antonelli told reporters aft taking the archetypal information of exams past week.

He said English is his favourite taxable "because that's the 1 that comes easiest for me."

Antonelli added that helium wanted to implicit the exams, which included some written and oral sections, earlier the upcoming Austrian GP "so I tin absorption afloat clip connected racing."