Kimi Antonelli insists he is "much more prepared" for this weekend's Italian Grand Prix than he was for his home race at Imola earlier in his rookie F1 season.
The 19-year-old endured a difficult Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in May, which was only the seventh round of his young career.
Having grown up in nearby Bologna, the Italian driver had a packed schedule, with his classmates all attending the paddock.
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff was absent from the round as he was attending his son's graduation, and it has since been accepted that the Brackley-based squad and Antonelli misjudged and mismanaged the weekend.
The rigours of the off-track demands left him overworked and ultimately underprepared for his on-track responsibilities.
That burnout, coupled with an ill-fated and since-discarded rear suspension upgrade on his W16, saw Antonelli qualify a lowly P13 after he was eliminated during Q2 in qualifying.
He retired from the race itself with a mechanical issue after a quiet afternoon. However, the Mercedes driver insists lessons have been learned from that episode and that he now knows how he must "behave" at Imola.
"For sure, I will be much more prepared," the 19-year-old told media, including RacingNews365.
"I know much better how I need to move around, how I need to behave over the race weekend, in order to be able to be 100 percent every time I get in the car."
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When it was queried with Antonelli would he would do differently, he focused on how he aims to conserve his energy over the weekend, something he admits he did not do at Imola.
"Well, definitely when I said I will be more prepared, obviously, it was my first home race, and there was a lot going [on] around, especially outside the track," he said.
"And I think also my side, I didn't manage energy the best way, and just going back in the car not feeling 100 percent, also focus-wise, so I feel like on that side, I will know much better how to react and how to behave...
"Also trying to manage the energy the best way as possible during the whole weekend... You run the weekend, and then as you go [on], and you arrive to Sunday, of course, you have a bit less energy overall.
"But the most important [thing is] that you arrive with the most amount of energy. I remember being in Imola already from the Saturday, I was pretty tired.
"So yeah, definitely, that was good learning - I don't want that to happen again."
The Italian driver has suffered through a difficult period and has scored just one point on European turf this season.
With a Mercedes contract extension imminent, he will hope to exorcise the demons of his practice crash at Monza 12 months ago with a strong weekend in front of his home crowd.
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