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Inside Kimi Antonelli’s Speedrun to F1 Dominance

Inside Kimi Antonelli’s Speedrun to F1 Dominance

Until then Wolff had largely been Antonelli’s cheerleader in public, doing everything he could to cultivate the young driver’s confidence and ease, both of which are needed for driving at 200 mph and for navigating a relentless spotlight. Wolff suddenly became the disciplinarian. “Kimi, concentrate on the driving, please, and not on the radio, moaning,” he responded at one point. At the end of the race, with Antonelli still complaining, Wolff shut him down. “Now is the fourth time to talk about this,” he said. “We talk about this internally and not on the radio, okay?” After the sprint race, Antonelli debriefed with the team and hashed out the situation with his friends and family. He watched a movie in his hotel room. “When I woke up the next morning, I was feeling good,” he says. “Mentally, I was in a good place, and I was ready to go.” When Antonelli fully emerged from the race haze after the Canadian GP sprint, Wolff gave him and Russell a spiel about the nature of a team, …