India, June 16 -- I talian racing driver Kimi Antonelli's Formula 1 season hit a setback at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday when a mechanical failure forced his first retirement of the year. The result paved the way for veteran British driver Lewis Hamilton to secure a victory. While engineers blamed technical issues, social media was flooded with jokes that he had been cursed by Hamilton's girlfriend, businesswoman Kim Kardashian. The joke stems from a viral moment at the Monaco Grand Prix on June 7, when Kardashian accidentally used a towel reserved for Antonelli. The incident quickly became a gag, with Mercedes posting videos of Antonelli jokingly searching for the missing towel. And social media chimed in too. While one user wrote on a YouTube video, "The #kardashian Curse Strikes #f1! Kim Kardashian Jinxed Kimi Antonelli!" another wrote, "The thing with Kimi's towel was actually an ancient spell to steal his luck." Kardashian later sent Antonelli a replacement towel embroidered with the message, "To Kimi from Kim," which Mercedes showed later in a video. HTC...