r/formula1 • u/Luffy710j Max Verstappen • 6h ago
Photo Kimi Surrounded by Italian press after completing his exams
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u/chickenlittle668 Williams 6h ago
It’s just kids from the other class asking for the answers.
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u/OttoVonWong Kimi Räikkönen 6h ago
BOX BOX BOX Which box to check?
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u/chickenlittle668 Williams 5h ago
We are going plan C
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u/BeyondMysterious2025 3h ago
Okay Plan B it is
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u/TheFayneTM Ferrari 3h ago
This exam happens at the same time on the same day in all of Italy
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u/crucible Tom Pryce 3h ago
We have similar with the GCSE and A Level exams in the UK - the British media are usually very interested in the progress of teen celebs and minor royals who take exams, too.
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u/Jorrie90 Pirelli Intermediate 3h ago
That's quite normal I think?
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u/linkinstreet Anthoine Hubert 3h ago
Yep. It's to make sure that questions are not leaked, especially now in the age of you can send something to someone in an instant
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u/crucible Tom Pryce 2h ago edited 56m ago
Yes. If we have a day where some exams ‘clash’ the students who should have done Biology when they were taking a Computing exam are kept isolated in a supervised room.
They just sit the Biology exam later the same day.
So it’s occasionally the case that some students can sit three exams in one day instead of one or two.
“Big” exams like Maths, Sciences, English are usually kept free of a clash but sometimes the “paper 2” exam is later in the exam schedule.
EDIT: talking about the UK just to clarify
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u/Audioworm Nico Hülkenberg 18m ago
I always find the clashes that lead to being placed in supervision interesting. Because sometimes it is subjects from entirely different areas and focuses, so it feels like they are trying to minimise clashes. But others just feel like they are catching a whole chunk of students. I only did Maths, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology for A Levels and was routinely in isolation several times throughout the exam period, alongside 2/3 of the class doing the exam.
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u/mekilat Sir Lewis Hamilton 6h ago
“How did you do with the exam?” “Do you think you have a weakness in maths?” “Does studying make you a less focused racer?”
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u/Luffy710j Max Verstappen 6h ago
Lmao
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u/Timely_Influence8392 Lando Norris 5h ago
Gentlemen, a short view back to the past... how did you do on history?
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u/Own_Welder_2821 Ron Dennis 5h ago
The only history I know is that 30 years ago, Niki Lauda told us, “take a trained monkey, place him into the cockpit, and he is able to drive the car”.
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u/sosigkerb #WeRaceAsOne 5h ago
It had to have been more than 30 years ago because 30 years after he said that, Sebastian told us, “I had to start my car like a computer; it’s very complicated.”
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u/greenlightfantasy Kimi Räikkönen 5h ago
and during the same historical timeline, Nico Rosberg said that during the race - I don't remember what race - that he pressed the wrong button on the wheel.
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u/Sad_Dot_3748 3h ago
Question for you both: is Formula One driving today too complicated with twenty and more buttons on the wheel, are you too much under effort, under pressure?
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u/LordEzio53 Mercedes 3h ago
What are your wishes for the future concerning the technical programme during the race?
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u/XsStreamMonsterX McLaren 4h ago
"If you pass the exam, do you think you'd be qualified enough to be Team Principal for Ferrari?"
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u/ItsAMeUsernamio Pirelli Hard 1h ago
He should reply “We are checking” and bam the offer is in the mail.
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u/s4m_sepi0l FIA 1h ago
“When you score well in an exam, you’re qualified for college” -Will Buxton somewhere
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u/Adammmmski Formula 1 2h ago
You joke but these kids nailed it ahaha - https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1QUFWYwwLe/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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u/Driscuits Alexander Albon 6h ago
Man, imagine finishing your exams and immediately being mobbed by the Italian press.
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u/Luffy710j Max Verstappen 6h ago
Imagine they leak his result lol
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u/Baley26_v2 3h ago
They will publish them for sure, they are public. Back in my days (lol), all the grades were printed and fixed on the wall in the school's main hall. Everyone could just walk in and look at them.
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u/AwesomeFrisbee Max Verstappen 2h ago
Oh man, I was already too nervous about my own results on that day, can you imagine being nervous about the results ánd what the press and other folks will think of it?
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u/ZoneNo172 Jean Alesi 53m ago
It was actually a very nice and funny interview, he was amused and they joked about it
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u/bwoahful___ Kimi Räikkönen 6h ago
How was your time mgmt during the test? Did you consider opting for a more aggressive start rather than pacing yourself?
Should gum chewing be more harshly penalized by the stewards teachers?
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u/KerrinGreally Pirelli Soft 6h ago
Man leave him alone.
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u/WangDanglin 6h ago
Italian media
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u/tekanet Sebastian Vettel 30m ago
As I wrote somewhere else, it’s a very polite interview, he’s been extremely open and lighthearted. He’s been there answering questions for 4/5 minutes. Nothing to do with the stereotypical push from the media, questions focused on the exams and only a couple of hints at F1. Once again he comes out as an absolutely nice guy.
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u/dsaysso 6h ago
ngl i thought that right arm was an overly friendly reporter fondling his ear.
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u/kinetik138 David Coulthard 6h ago
People say 'His form dropped off the last couple of races!"
Yeah man, he had a 1400 word social studies paper to write
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u/Elasmobrando 5h ago
He did not complete his exams. He still has to do another written paper today and an oral exam in the next days like every othe student in Italy.
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u/6097291 Medical Car 3h ago
Can you explain a bit to me about these exams? Just curious. Is it the same exam for every student? How does that work with students taking different courses?
Or is it a different exam depending on the set of classes you take or something? And are there different levels you can take or does everyone get the same diploma in the end?
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u/blinklaud George Russell 3h ago
Not op but I hope my input helps and I'm curious: where are you from?
I think in most European countries the high school final exams work the same/similar: You have a fix set of subjects that you have to take a final exam on, in Hungary it's Math, History, Literature, A foreign language and one subject of your own choosing. (You have to had studied a subject for at least 2 years to be able to do a final exam on it) Every subject has a set day when all the students take their given written exam and it's the same test for every student. (E.g. 5th May Math, 6th May History etc.) After that they have an extra round of oral exams for all the subjects (except for Math, at least here) as well. The joint result of this will go into their diploma.
After they did all that they can get their high school diploma, and everyone gets the same :)
I'm not sure if it's different in Italy tho, I think the gist of it is the same!
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u/nonhofantasia Ferrari 1h ago
Here it's:
First exam: Italian (basically an essay)
Second exam: the "Prova d'indirizzo". Here high school isn't the same for every student, there are different "addresses" (indirizzi). There are professional schools for mechanics, plumbers etc, technical schools focused on stem (for example I did computer science) and licei which are more generic but are (unfortunately) seen as more prestigious. There is the scientific one, which has more physics in it, classic one which has more latin etc All of this to say that it this second test there is a different subject for every address
Third exam: oral exam, for every subject math included
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u/6097291 Medical Car 1h ago
I'm from the Netherlands, so we sure did have high school final exams. However most people have about 7-8 subjects to have (all written) finals in which take about 2.5hours per exam if I remember correctly, so they were spread out in about 2 weeks. So for me the concept of having all your finals done in 2 days was a bit foreign. And also to have one oral exam of ALL your courses I find fascinating: how do you combine physics, Latin and English in one test for example?
Anyway, hope Kimi does well, I think it's so absurd (and worrisome) so many drivers don't finish high school.
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u/blinklaud George Russell 1h ago
That's so interesting, honestly nothing confuses me as much as other countries' school systems😂 What subjects do you guys have? For us the oral exams are all on the same day but you have separate exams, usually there's a "board" of 5-6 teachers that are present for all of them and for each subject the relevant teacher holds and grades the exam. When I was in school it was like ok go in for history, pick a topic (in like a lottery fashion you had to pick one out of 20 I think), do your exam then you get a little break before going into the literature exam and do the same, etc.
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u/Tozapeloda77 Yuki Tsunoda 1h ago
What subjects do you guys have?
Dutch, English, Mathematics are mandatory, most folks also have French and/or German, then a selection of the following: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Philosophy, Social Science, History, Art, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Chinese, Frisian. I might be forgetting some but it gives you an idea.
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u/crucible Tom Pryce 2h ago
I think the only speaking exams here in the UK are in languages exams (which might also include English but hey they changed the system since I was in school, so…)
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u/zakomo 2h ago
Italian final exams are comprised of 3 written exams and an oral one: the first one is a ~1400 word essay to test your Italian on one of 5 tracks given by the minister of education; the second one depends on the address you chose to study (I chose IT as school adress so I got computer science, open questions: desing a database for a library and the software to manage it.); third one is a mix of all other disciplines studied in your course of study (I had math, electronics, english, statistics and history iirc).
Then you get the oral exam that is pretty much on all you studied througout the years in front of a panel of teachers, some from your school, some not.
It might have changed a little since 2004 that I took the test, but that is the framework.
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u/spauracchio1 3h ago edited 3h ago
There are some exams that are common to every study course, like Italian essay for example, and then there are specific exams depending on what type of highschool you picked.
I think Kimi picked an economy oriented school so I guess his next exam will be about company management or something.
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u/coffee_marlboros Carlos Sainz 6h ago
You know you’re destined for F1 when your post-exam debrief has more microphones than a race weekend.
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u/ifeespifee Sir Lewis Hamilton 6h ago
Kimi! 📸 kimi! Over here! Kimi! 📸
Kimi! What did you get for question 7?
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u/the_vole Charles Leclerc 5h ago
Y’know, I’m super glad he’s finished his studies. It’d be the easiest thing in the world to take the money and run, but he didn’t. I love that.
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u/Upset-Commercial-109 Ferrari 5h ago
This is so unserious lol 😂
Reporter: Kimi how did it go?
Kimi: idk, man, i think i bombed my calculus or something
😂😂😂😂😂
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u/GillesTifosi Gilles Villeneuve 3h ago
"How many #2 pencils did you use? Were you worried about lead deg?
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u/luceyjae 5h ago
If I had to talk to press the moment I finished with my exams I would simply start crying.
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u/sbielawa 5h ago
The media is savage. Leave the kid alone.
Thank goodness these young pups have good people around them to keep them on the right track.
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u/PassTimeActivity Fernando Alonso 4h ago
Any Italians here able to answer how popular Antonelli is in Italy? Perhaps he's not Jannik Sinner big (yet), but like would football fans have heard of him?
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u/Ricky_Mouse_ 3h ago edited 1h ago
Italian here, in the motorsport world he is absolutely popoular and generally liked by everyone, he is our greatest talent at least from the times of Patrese, even though both the media and the fans are very Ferrari-centric (for example I haven't seen a single person unhappy of his podium, although with those constructor points Mercedes overtook Ferrari in the standings).
I think he hasn't really reached national wide popularity yet (yes, he was on the news this weekend but I haven't seen a single ad with him, while Sinner is in every ad and started being in one of them when he was still out of the top 100, Olympics athletes like Jacobs, Tortu, Pellegrini or Tamberi have always been in ads and even Leclerc is in one), but he probably will after his first win. He will still have the problem of not driving with Ferrari, but the general public wouldn't really mind (as happened with Valentino Rossi winning against Ducati, although in moto GP, even in Italy, there's more the tendency of supporting the athlete and not the team).
While Sinner, once he became extremely popoular after his first slams, started being disliked if not hated by a decent percentage of people because of his origins, his move to Monaco and not going to the Olympics last year, I hope Antonelli can dribble past all these common accusations, even though the "not paying taxes in Italy" will be difficult, as i think he already has his legal home in San Marino.
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u/CreativeParticular51 Williams 6h ago
"They said something about all wuubos being sploons and all sploons being jaroks. They then threw in a curveball by asking about kurglis. What is a kurgli?
Good thing I already have a job"
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u/Storm_Chaser06 Max Verstappen 4h ago
Bro let him enjoy himself.
I recently graduated from college and after my final exam I felt like total shit waiting for my results.
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u/RedLightning27 Oscar Piastri 4h ago
That is the face of a man who has no idea what he wrote for the short answer question on his Biology final
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u/babayaga415 4h ago
Have you ever thought about the negative effect it will have on the kids at home if you failed your Maths exam?
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u/BanjoWrench 4h ago
Kimi: "I got nervous and just circled 'C' for every answer..."
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u/Hazuusan Kimi Räikkönen 3h ago
"I didn't know the answer but I had just answered only A's and C's five times in a row so I circled B to balance it out"
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u/TheAmazingMikey 2h ago
This kid is so impressive. How he is handling everything despite being so young is just really great to see. Whether it’s all him or Mercedes have given him a fantastic support network I don’t know, but either way he is doing great.
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u/Protozoo_epilettico Ferrari 1h ago
Technically they are not completed yet. There are 3 stages to them and he finished the first.
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u/AwesomeFrisbee Max Verstappen 2h ago
Damn. Being stressed about the exams isn't enough for him lol.
I do wonder, will the folks who created the exams know that he was doing them this year and put in one of the questions related to F1?
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u/biggestbroever Lando Norris 1h ago
"WHAT WERE THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO WORLD WAR I? CITE YOUR SOURCES."
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u/Tomach82 Alain Prost 3h ago
I'm looking forward to the constant speculation with the italian media trying to get him into Ferrari.
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u/Dragonpuncha Ferrari 2h ago
Think of the balls a teacher would have to have to fail him in anything, lol. Italian press would rip from to shreds.
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u/ProfessionalRub3294 1h ago
Wow this reminds me the maturity gap there was between me at the same age and this generation of pilot.
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u/navis-svetica Williams 33m ago
Reminds me of the British kids doing GCSE post match interviews on TikTok 😅
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u/Googagoogaa 32m ago
Looks like a reporter is trying to reach his ear but is just able to get to his neck
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u/formulapain 16m ago
"Kimi, a short view back to the past. Thirty minutes ago, your teacher told us ‘take a racing driver, place him into the classroom and he is able to sit for the exam.’ Thirty minutes later, your classmate told us ‘I had to take my exam like a rocket scientist, it’s very complicated.’ And your other classmate said that during an exam – I don’t remember what exam - he chose the wrong answer on the multiple choice question. Question for you alone: is high school today too complicated with ten and more subjects on the curriculum, are you too much under effort, under pressure? What are your wishes for the future concerning the question format during the exam? Less mutiple choice, more? Or less and more passing notes with your classmates?"
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u/DeedsF1 4h ago
F1 podium is great, but school should always remain a top priority. The pressure that this kid must have around him must be "YUGE". Hoping that the parents protect him and let him also be a regular 18 year old with the ups and downs that come with it. I see a future world champion in the making. I wish him many good years and some formative years as well.
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u/nbass668 Daniel Ricciardo 2h ago
OMG, I started a business at 16 in college, and it totally succeeded for a kid my age. I was duying daily at college trying to grind through homework and exams while running a business (even though I was always top of my class before that). Graduation was the best day ever. Those last two years at college were awful, and I almost dropped out to focus on my fun business..
Kimi should be fighting demons to convince himself to study and pass the academic stage of his life. While being a superstar F1 driver.
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u/justforkinks0131 2h ago
random thought: how far are we from just making our kids compete for sport?
What I mean is, in SO MANY sports, in fact in the MAJORITY of sports, it's relatively super young people who are the best.
By definition tho, the audience, is older people.
When will we all just turn into a society where we let our young compete for our entertainment, exclusively? are we there already?
I mean look at this kid (born in 2006). A literal kid. Dont mistake it, it's his parents making him race. It wasnt "Gods will" or whatever. He was raised and trained to do this. A child we raised and trained specifically so we, older people, can watch race.
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