Andrea Kimi Antonelli arrives at the US Grand Prix one good Sunday away from turning into Components 1’s youngest world champion.
The Mercedes driver has 340 factors and leads teammate George Russell by 102. Lewis Hamilton is 111 behind in third, and Antonelli has topped the standings since spherical three in Japan.
The standings
| Place | Driver | Crew | Factors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kimi Antonelli | Mercedes | 340 |
| 2 | George Russell | Mercedes | 238 |
| 3 | Lewis Hamilton | Ferrari | 229 |
| 4 | Max Verstappen | Crimson Bull | 221 |
| 5 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 215 |
| 6 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 201 |
Six rounds stay, beginning in Austin. This leaves a most of 150 factors for a driver who wins each remaining Grand Prix. After the US Grand Prix, 5 races stay: Mexico, Brazil, Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, value a most of 125 factors.
How Kimi Antonelli wins it in Austin
He wants to return out of Texas with a lead sufficiently big that nobody can catch him. This implies outscoring Russell by 23 factors, Hamilton by 14 and Verstappen by six to seal his record-breaking title.
Victory is the place to begin. A win would additionally give Antonelli the title on countback within the occasion of an end-of-season factors tie, as a result of race wins are the primary tiebreaker.
Who else continues to be win?
Russell and Hamilton are the lifelike threats, however three extra drivers stay within the hunt mathematically. Verstappen (119 factors again), Leclerc (125) and Norris (139) are all nonetheless in rivalry, however an Antonelli win in Austin would knock all three out wherever they completed.
The longer photographs depend upon one thing near a collapse. A driver decrease down the order can solely win the title if Antonelli scores no extra factors and no one else passes his present 340.
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