安东内利坦言新秀赛季曾自我怀疑
安东内利在上周末墨西哥站提前四轮锁定F1年度冠军，成为最年轻的F1世界冠军。他坦言新秀赛季曾让自己怀疑能力，外界也曾质疑梅赛德斯提拔他过早。
安东内利坦言，自己在新秀赛季期间一直自我怀疑。
这位新加冕的F1世界冠军表示，他在F1的新秀赛季让他怀疑自己的能力。
安东内利在上周末的墨西哥站成为最年轻的F1世界冠军，当时距离赛季结束还有四轮，他最接近的对手已失去今年挑战他冠军头衔的理论可能。这位意大利车手的强劲表现让他统治了整个赛季——但去年的情况看起来并不相同，当时他18岁进入F1。尽管有几场比赛表现突出，他的新秀赛季大部分时间仍相当艰难。
这让许多人质疑梅赛德斯是否过早将他提拔进F1是个错误决定——而在Nu Silver Arrows Radio Show节目中，安东内利向天空体育前F1车手安东尼·戴维森承认，他自己也曾怀疑过自己。
“其实现在回头看，我非常庆幸车队经历了那些艰难时刻，因为我认为它们塑造了我，”他说。“它们让我成长得快了很多。它们让我成熟得快了很多。而且那一年我也经历了各种各样的情况，你知道的，高潮和低谷。”
“上赛季当然也有美好的时刻，那是一段漫长而艰难的时期。但是，你知道，即便当时非常艰难，我也不打算撒谎，上赛季在那段时期里我一次又一次地怀疑过自己。”
安东内利在梅赛德斯接替了七届世界冠军刘易斯·汉密尔顿，如今他为车队带来了自2020年以来的首个车手总冠军。
“我将永远感激梅赛德斯，感激这个始于2018年的项目中涉及的每一个人。也感激他们去年直接把我放进梅赛德斯赛车，那是一次巨大的冒险。”
直接进入梅赛德斯车队，是的，这很困难，因为我受到的关注要多得多。这促使我努力尝试更快地学习。但话说回来，能够克服那个时刻才是真正塑造我的原因。
当你知道你仍然得到同样的支持，人们的想法甚至没有改变，经历那段困难时期，这也帮助我克服了它，因为我知道，尽管我没有达到应有的水平，或者没有达到期望，我仍然得到了车队的全力支持。
这让我意识到我可以依靠他们所有人，他们总会在我身后，在任何场合帮助我。所以这也帮助我克服了那段时期，也给了我信心。
这位意大利人强调，经历2025年的艰难时期帮助他进步，这最终在今年的比赛中被证明很重要。
“我觉得今年真正帮助我的是，车队接纳了真实的我，”他说。“这让我能在车队里做自己，当然也让我在合适的时机享受乐趣。但这些都极大地帮助了我，让我坐进赛车后能保持专注，尽我所能做到最好。”
英文原文
Kimi Antonelli admits he questioned himself throughout his rookie campaign
The newly crowned F1 champion says his rookie season in the series made him doubt his abilities
Kimi Antonelli became the youngest F1 champion last weekend in Mexico, as with four rounds to go, his closest rivals lost even a theoretical chance of challenging him for the title this year. The Italian's strong performances allowed him to dominate the season - but the picture looked different last year, when he entered Formula 1 at the age of 18. Despite several standout races, much of his rookie campaign proved difficult.
That led many to question whether Mercedes had made the wrong call by promoting him into F1 too early - and speaking on the Nu Silver Arrows Radio Show to former F1 driver Anthony Davidson, Antonelli admitted he had questioned himself, too.
"I'm actually looking back, I'm very glad that the team went through all those difficult moments because I think they shaped me," he said. "They made me grow a lot faster. They made me mature a lot faster. And also I got to experience all kinds of situations that year, you know, the highs, the lows."
"There were good moments last season, of course, a long difficult period. But, you know, even though it was very tough back then, and I'm not going to lie, I've been questioning myself over and over again last season during that stretch."
Antonelli replaced seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes - and has now brought the team its first drivers' title since 2020.
"I will always be grateful towards Mercedes, towards everyone involved in this project that started back in 2018. And also for them to put me straight into the Mercedes car last year was a big gamble.
"Going straight into Mercedes, yes, it was difficult because I was much more under the spotlight. And that made me push to try and learn even quicker. But then again, being able to overcome that moment was what really shaped me.
"When you know that you still got the same support, that people's mind even hasn't changed, going through that difficult period, that was what helped me to overcome that as well, because I knew that despite not performing at the level I should have or not performing up to the expectations, I still had the full support of the team."
"And that made me realise that I could rely on all of them and that they will always be behind me to help me in every occasion. So that helped me as well to overcome that period and gave me the confidence as well."
The Italian stressed that going through a tough spell in 2025 helped him improve, which ultimately proved important during this year's campaign.
"I think also this year, what really helped me is that the team embraced me for who I am," he said. "And that allowed me to be myself within the team, allowed me to have fun, of course, in the right moments at the right time. But those have helped me massively to then go in the car and be focused and do the best job I can."
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