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In the Driver’s Seat
With ‘Bono’ by his side, Kimi Antonelli could finally find what Mercedes are looking for
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(From left) Chinese Grand Prix winner Kimi Antonelli with Mercedes race engineer Peter Bonnington and Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton on the podium on March 15.
PHOTO: AFP
Perhaps the tears were the biggest reminder that Kimi Antonelli – the youngest man ever to start a Grand Prix from pole position, the second-youngest ever to win one and the first Italian in nearly 20 years to do so – really is just a kid.
Youthful looks aside you wouldn’t know it to talk with him, especially if you were to ask him to recite some of his lap times from previous races which he can do with his almost photographic memory.
