Kimi Antonelli’s hotly anticipated official Formula 1 debut started with him briefly sitting atop the times and ended dramatically with a heavily damaged Mercedes in the wall and five laps to his name.

The unexpectedly truncated Italian Grand Prix FP1 for Mercedes’ expected 2025 race driver comprised just two outlaps, an inlap, and a little short of two flying laps because of his big crash at Parabolica.