Kini Antonelli's wheel-to-wheel combat with Max Verstappen has allowed the Mercedes driver to appreciate who he is battling.
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By competing with Max Verstappen this season, Kimi Antonelli was able to observe very closely the qualities that enabled the Dutchman to become quadruple Formula 1 world champion. The leader of the championship particularly remembers the science of the race of the Red Bull driver, his extremely fast reading of situations and his ability to extract more from his single seat at the decisive moment, even when a weekend seemed complicated until then…