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In The Driver’s Seat

Young Kimi Antonelli shows his class, on and off the track

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Mercedes' Italian driver Kimi Antonelli celebrating his Miami Grand Prix victory, his third in a row, with his team on May 3.

Mercedes' Italian driver Kimi Antonelli celebrating his Miami Grand Prix victory, his third in a row, with his team on May 3.

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In the end, the dire forecast of thunderstorms and potentially race-stopping lightning strikes never materialised to disrupt the Miami Grand Prix, to everyone’s great relief. So it was left to Kimi Antonelli, Formula One’s man in form and youngest-ever world championship leader, to drive like greased lightning in his Mercedes on the track.

And boy did he do the business.

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