{"id":92879,"date":"2025-12-02T05:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/red-bull-apologizes-for-abuse-of-antonelli-after-erroneous-accusation-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:26:20","slug":"red-bull-apologizes-for-abuse-of-antonelli-after-erroneous-accusation-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/red-bull-apologizes-for-abuse-of-antonelli-after-erroneous-accusation-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull apologizes for abuse of Antonelli after erroneous accusation in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"Red Bull issued a statement lamenting the online abuse directed at Kimi Antonelli after the Qatar Grand Prix. This occurred after team members suggested that the Mercedes driver had facilitated Lando Norris&#8217;s overtaking.\n\nMercedes revealed that Antonelli&#8217;s social media accounts received more than 1100 &#8220;severe or suspicious&#8221; comments after the race, including death threats and messages wishing harm.\n\nAntonelli made a mistake on the penultimate lap in Qatar, which allowed Norris to overtake him and secure important points in his fight for the championship with Max Verstappen.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1201%2Fr1583227_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El ingeniero de carrera de Max Verstappen, Gianpiero Lambiase, insinu\u00f3 que Kimi Antonelli se movi\u00f3 para ayudar a Lando Norris en Qatar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe difference between finishing fourth and fifth means that Norris would secure the championship if he achieves third place in Abu Dhabi, while a fifth place would require a second place in the last race.\n\nAfter Verstappen won the race in Qatar, Gianpiero Lambiase, Verstappen&#8217;s race engineer, hinted that Antonelli had facilitated Norris&#8217;s overtaking.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m not sure what happened to Antonelli there. It seemed like he just moved aside and let Lando through.<\/p><cite>Gianpiero Lambiase<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nHelmut Marko, Red Bull advisor, told reporters that it was &#8220;so obvious&#8221; that Norris was &#8220;invited&#8221; to let Antonelli pass.\n\nToto Wolff, Mercedes team boss, called Marko&#8217;s comments &#8220;stupid&#8221;.\n\nQatar GP: Stella says McLaren will learn from strategy errors\n\nOn Monday, Red Bull issued a statement clarifying that the team accepted that Antonelli had made a mistake and did not simply allow Norris to overtake.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The comments made before and after the Qatar Grand Prix, suggesting that the Mercedes driver, Kimi Antonelli, had deliberately allowed Lando Norris to overtake him, are clearly incorrect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe statement went on to explain that replays showed Antonelli losing control of his car, allowing Norris to overtake.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We sincerely regret that this has led to Kimi receiving online abuse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\nVerstappen arrives at the last race in Abu Dhabi with a 12-point lead over Norris in the standings.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull issued a statement lamenting the online abuse directed at Kimi Antonelli after the Qatar Grand Prix. This occurred after team members suggested that the Mercedes driver had facilitated Lando Norris&#8217;s overtaking. Mercedes revealed that Antonelli&#8217;s social media accounts received more than 1100 &#8220;severe or suspicious&#8221; comments after the race, including death threats and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4641,436,2460,444],"class_list":{"0":"post-92879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-kimi-antonelli","9":"tag-lando-norris","10":"tag-online-abuse","11":"tag-red-bull"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}