20-year-old clinches title with four races to go
Verstappen wins race ahead of Hamilton
Kimi Antonelli closed out with the cool command of the greats to win the Formula One world championship by taking third place in the Mexican Grand Prix, a race won after no little drama by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, from the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton who was left fuming with his teammate Charles Leclerc, who finished fourth.
In taking his debut F1 title for Mercedes, the 20-year-old Antonelli has etched his name into the record books as the youngest driver to claim the sport’s crown and the first Italian to do so since Alberto Ascari won in 1953. It is Mercedes’ first drivers’ championship since Hamilton last won in 2020 and the team’s 10th.
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