Beijing, Oct. 22 -- At Monza, Kimi Antonelli charged from 19th on the grid to claim an extraordinary home victory. Two races later in Baku, the Italian deliberately eased off thepace and settled for fifth.
The contrasting performances revealed two sides of a driver whose growing maturity has helpedput him on the brink of becoming Formula 1's youngest-ever world champion.
Now, after successive podium finishes in Malaysia and Singapore, the 20-year-old Mercedes driver heads into this weekend's United States Grand Prix with his first mathematical chance of securing the title.
"I was aware I was probably at 85% of what I could have achieved in terms of performance," Antonelli told Xinhua and one other outlet ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix i...