Wolff hails world champion Antonelli as role model in blast at F1’s ‘entitled moaners’

• Mercedes team principal hits out at ‘selfish’ drivers

• Antonelli says he will keep No 12 on his car next season

The Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, has described his Formula One world champion Kimi Antonelli as a new kind of racing driver who represents the future of the sport, comparing him scathingly to what he called some of the entitled moaners on the grid and declaring “selfless, ruthless” drivers now dead to F1.

Antonelli secured his first world championship in Mexico City on Sunday, completing an extraordinary achievement in becoming, at 20 years old, the youngest F1 champion in only his second season in the sport. The Italian’s attitude, enthusiasm and sense of fair play have been notable in what was a revelatory season for a driver so young and Wolff believed he had proved to be a gamechanger in more ways than one.

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