Toto Wolff: Two sponsors left Mercedes after promoting Kimi Antonelli into F1

At the Mexico Grand Prix, Mercedes reaped the reward for the courage it showed in putting the then 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli in the cockpit from 2025 with his world championship triumph in his just second Formula 1 season.

It was courage that not everyone in the Mercedes sphere shared from the outset, as team principal Toto Wolff now reveals.