00:00Max Verstappen is going to win the Mexico City Grand Prix.
00:04Lewis Hamilton will be second, Kimi Antonelli third.
00:07I think we can call each and every one of the top three greats in this sport.
00:12Mercedes, who two years ago swapped a goat for a kid,
00:16are now seeing the kid write his name in the championship history of Formula One.
00:22Kimi Antonelli will celebrate.
00:24Max Verstappen wins the Mexico City Grand Prix.
00:27Lewis Hamilton comes home for second, and at 20 years and 68 days,
00:33Andrea Kimi Antonelli is the youngest ever champion of the world.
00:39Unbelievable.
00:40And there's his family.
00:42You can see his parents there and his mom straight on the team radio listening to the reaction.
00:48You can see the emotions pouring out of his eyes.
00:51An amazing day for world sport, you know, to see a new world champion.
00:56Get in there, Kimi!
00:59Champion of the world!
01:09Kimi, we did it! World champion, we did it!
01:15His dad, Marco, has presided over a few race victories with his own sports car team.
01:21This will be the best victory that they could ever have ever have imagined.
01:27The dad who said to his son, I don't really want you to go into Formula One because the pressure
01:32is so much.
01:32It's such a brutal sport.
01:34I don't know how you're going to cope.
01:36I tell you what, he has coped better than even Toto Wolff would have imagined when he gave him that
01:42seat.
01:42As I say, they swapped a goat for a kid.
01:44The kid has come of age in 2026.
01:54Yeah, I mean, to be honest, last year there were so many moments where he didn't look like he was
02:02going to evolve into this superstar that he's become this year, but he has.
02:05Here is the evolution from the early days spent writing notes and race laps down to meeting Lewis Hamilton on
02:13the grid in Monza as a grid kid in 2018 to carting victories with his dad.
02:19And a thumbs up as he took home yet another trophy to his first victory in Formula One.
02:26It came from pole position in China earlier this season and his dad there with him once again.
02:32Stefano Domenicali, a very proud CEO of Formula One, there to congratulate him after that win.
02:38The champagne that has never stopped flowing and flowing almost as much as the tears are now.
02:45Thank you so much.
02:47We did it.
02:48We did it.
02:49Thank you so much.
02:52Beautiful work, Kimi.
02:53Been a real pleasure being part of the journey with you, mate.
02:55But, yeah, this is just the first chapter.
02:57So, champ, you're going to be pulling up in the stadium section.
03:01We're aboard there with your new title.
03:05Yeah, thank you.
03:07He would have gone to bed last night knowing this moment was coming.
03:12Let's be fair.
03:13He just had to show up today and surely he would have been world champion.
03:17But there's one thing to imagining what happens and then now living it as well.
03:22And I think we should quickly pay tribute to Pete Bonington, the man we just heard on the radio there.
03:26He's worked with Jensen Button.
03:28He's worked with Michael Schumacher.
03:29Lewis Hamilton, six world championships with him.
03:32And now he's developed this young, raw talent into this world champion.
03:38So, really, really, I think we should all pay tribute to Bono as well for an incredible achievement.
03:43We say it, we say it week in, week out.
03:45He is the perfect partner in the double act.
03:48Ha, ha.
03:50The crowd acclaim Kimi Antonelli.
03:54Antonelli anointed here in Mexico City.
03:57And the goat comes over to the kid as the first to give him a big hug and say, well
04:03done.
04:03And Max Verstappen there congratulating Kimi's family before he turns around to see the young Italian.
04:10And I tell you what, from Mexico City to Bologna and all points in between and further beyond,
04:17there is not a dry eye in the house when you watch scenes like this.
04:22And he's such a lovely young man, isn't he?
04:24You know, I saw him walking into the paddock, holding his sister's hand, walking in this morning.
04:29And, you know, the family traveled with him.
04:31And there is this new family at Mercedes who've welcomed him, welcomed him in and delivered him a car to
04:39achieve that dream.
04:41Was it just a few years ago?
04:43He was unveiled as a, five years ago, I think, as a Mercedes young driver, part of the development program.
04:50And Toto Wolff was questioned, you know, why, why say farewell and thanks to Lewis Hamilton and bring in someone
04:58unproven and untested?
05:01And Toto said at the time, he's a generational talent.
05:04And that is what we've seen this year.
05:07And I think we'll continue to see from years and years to come.
05:12I think the top three today, Karun, a fitting top three, without doubt, the best drivers on the grid this
05:20season, previous seasons, and for seasons to come.
05:24With all due respect to every other.
05:27Yeah, I think it's just fantastic to see these three on there.
05:30You know, we often say this, Toto Wolff, you know, as you know, I'm a big fan of the history
05:36of sport.
05:37Every seven or eight years, you get a generational talent.
05:40You have Kimi now.
05:42You had Max before him.
05:43You had Lewis before him.
05:44Fernando.
05:45And it is every six or seven years that they come along.
05:48So to see Kimi with these two, you know, these across three of these generations, really, Lewis's career, 20 years
05:55long now, amazing, amazing.
05:57Let us take in these scenes and just fill you in with what happened outside the top three.
06:04Because Charles Leclerc, as George Russell, comes over at his teammate to say, well done, enjoy.
06:10Yeah, I think also a word for Italy.
06:12You know, they want three.
06:13Oh, here's the boss.
06:14Toto Wolff comes into Bach for me.
06:20And it's like just a word for Italy.
06:21You see, and they're holding the flag.
06:23They have not had a world champion in 73 years after winning three of the first four drivers world championships.
06:30What a big day for one of motorsports great nations, right?
06:35It's, you know, you think of them as being one of the grandis of the sport.
06:38In 73 years, they've waited for this young man to come along.
06:41Friday was the 120th anniversary of the birth of Italy's first ever world champion.
06:50Giuseppe Farina Sunday is the birth of the latest Italian world champion.
06:57Friday was also the anniversary, by the way, the last ever world championship won by car number 12, which was
07:03at the center back in 1988.
07:06Very quickly before we hear from the drivers, Charles Leclerc held off Lando Norris for fourth.
07:10Lando Norris fifth.
07:11George Russell in sixth.
07:12Oscar Piastri seventh.
07:14He'll have to go and see the stewards for that tangle with Lindblad.
07:17Then came Colopinto Lawson and Gasly completing the points.
07:20Nico is down outside the podium, waiting to talk to the top three.
07:25Kimi, you did it.
07:26You are the 2026 Formula One world champion and the youngest ever in the history of Formula One.
07:34Take us through your feelings.
07:35Yeah, we did it.
07:37We did it.
07:38And, you know, without Demi, I wouldn't be here without Mercedes, without my family.
07:42So I'm very grateful for this moment and it's one that will live forever.
07:48And I just, I'm speechless.
07:50I'm trying to process what has just happened.
07:53You're sharing the podium today with the other two drivers who are like two of the greatest of all time.
07:58How, does that make it even more special to have beaten them this season?
08:02Of course, of course.
08:04And, you know, it's been an incredible season.
08:07And to share this podium with Max and Luis is truly incredible.
08:11And, yeah, looking forward to some more battles in the future.
08:16Now you can say, did you ever feel a little bit of nerves?
08:18Because from the outside, it looked so solid all year long.
08:22Yeah, I mean, this weekend I did feel a bit more tense.
08:26But, yeah, I'm just so happy and happy that we got it done.
08:30And then we can, now we can enjoy the rest of the season.
08:33Well, enjoy really this moment.
08:34You deserve it so much.
08:35Thank you so much, Mexico.
