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Kimi Antonelli is your two thousand twenty six Formula One World Champion, and the tributes are pouring in fast. Lando Norris put it best, saying the young Italian made everyone look silly this season. Antonelli clinched the title with a third-place finish in Mexico, and the celebrations were already rolling on the screens while his rivals were still doing press. Remarkable.
His race engineer Pete Bonnington has been reflecting on the highlights of that title run, sharing his personal top three moments from a season that clearly had no shortage of them. Bonnington has been in the sport long enough to know a special campaign when he engineers one, and by every account, this was exactly that.
Shifting to MotoGP, Marc Marquez left Sepang with the championship all but wrapped up after a Malaysian Grand Prix weekend that had serious tension running underneath the surface. The Race's podcast digs into the behind-the-scenes friction, with most riders staying quiet until Jack Miller broke the silence Sunday night. Qatar is next, but the title conversation may already be over.
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