Mercedes has revealed Andrea Kimi Antonelli came close to retiring from the Mexican Grand Prix. The team discovered the new world champion’s
car had developed a fault in its power unit in the final laps.
Mercedes’ deputy team principal Bradley Lord described it as “a sign of the fact that this is Kimi’s year and things are rolling with him.”
“We got the car back after the race, took the floor off the bottom, [and found it was] covered in oil,”
he told High Performance Racing. “
Sump cracked.”
Antonelli was already detecting signs of trouble from his Mercedes power unit. “
Kimi said he thinks about four laps from the end he could start to feel the engine just starting to struggle. So [he was] right on the edge of retirement [from] that race and yet it held together.”
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