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Wolff: Antonelli ‘like an AI agent’ in relentless F1 evolution
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09/09/2026 at 09:3909/09/2026 at 10:12 40 SHARES Share on.. Share on.. Share on.. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has watched Kimi Antonelli’s rise from promising rookie to Formula 1 championship leader with the sort of astonishment normally reserved for something that defies the laws of nature. The 20-year-old Italian was always regarded as a prodigious talent when Mercedes accelerated his arrival in F1 as Lewis Hamilton’s replacement. But even Wolff, the man who trusted Antonelli enough to hand him one of the sport’s most coveted seats, admits that the speed of his transformation in 2026 has caught him off guard. And the Mercedes chief has reached for an...
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