Lewis Hamilton will leave Mercedes and join Ferrari at the end of the season and former Williams driver Nyck de Vries has backed highly-rated Kim Antonelli to replace him
Nyck de Vries has tipped 17-year-old sensation Kimi Antonelli to replace Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes - and believes he deserves the opportunity because he is a "great driver".
Meanwhile, Antonelli is another potential option. The teenager has risen up through the ranks and made his Formula 2 debut last month. Although replacing Hamilton in the Mercedes hotseat could prove to be too soon for the Italian, De Vries has backed him to make the big jump quicker than anticipated.
"But where a door closes, a new one always opens, and change is not always for the worse. It just happens, and I hope to see that Kimi will get the opportunity because I believe he's very capable. I think he's a great, great driver, very complete." "It's clear Kimi has been in our junior category since he was 11. We have had great pleasure in watching him grow as a young man and growing through the ranks. But I also want to take a little bit of pressure off him - he's 17.
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