An unforgettable afternoon at Monza as Kimi Antonelli drives from 19th on the grid to claim an incredible win on home soil!
Sunday represented the seventh race win of the Mercedes driver’s increasingly-impressive second of Formula 1 and one which extended what stood as a 59-point championship lead to a joint season-high 66 points.
Rosberg had been among the many ahead of the race to suggest that a podium was likely out of Antonelli’s reach from the grid’s penultimate row, something the Italian himself had ruled out after qualifying.
But it turns out that not everyone was expecting it to necessarily be a race purely of damage limitation from the grid penalties that had left Antonelli so out of position.
“I thought one of the two [Mercedes drivers] is going to win,” disclosed Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff after the race.
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