Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington stated the Chinese language Grand Prix podium celebrations have been one thing he’ll “cherish”.
Describing it as “getting the band again collectively”, Bonnington joined the rostrum celebrations as he accepted the constructors’ trophy after Antonelli’s maiden Method 1 win. Finishing the rostrum have been Antonelli’s Mercedes team-mate George Russell and former Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.
“It is fairly good. I can not complain,” Bonnington advised Sky Sports activities F1. “Having Lewis there with Kimi, it was a hell of a second. It is one which I am going to cherish. Felt prefer it was getting the band again collectively, however not the band, I do not know what the analogy is there.
“But it surely was actually, very nice, actually touching, Lewis is a good sportsman, as ever.”
Evaluating what it’s wish to work with Antonelli and Hamilton, Bonnington added: “It is chalk and cheese with Lewis. I knew what he was considering, I knew that he did not should be advised, whereas after I began with Kimi, it was a case of, I do not know what he would not know.
“So I am having to re-remember a great deal of stuff that I took as a right, and in order that was form of course of for myself. Kimi simply brings a very completely different vibe. He is clearly nonetheless so younger, however filled with vitality, actually likes to carry the storage collectively. He is all the time there with the pranks, however equally, he is aware of when to knuckle down and work exhausting.
“With Kimi, he is placing a number of religion in me and a number of belief in me as a result of I’ve obtained the expertise, he is obtained the youth.
“We work otherwise, and I’m form of educating him, taking him step-by-step by the method of how we change into a champion, and he is simply ticked off step one, so we have to simply hold chipping away.”
Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes
Picture by: Mark Sutton / Method 1 through Getty Pictures
Bonnington has labored with each Hamilton and fellow seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, and he can see similarities between Antonelli and the 2 champions.
“I learn a e-book in regards to the 10,000-hour rule many, a few years in the past. And I began to essentially strongly consider it, considering, oh, if all of us had sufficient apply, we would be ok.
“After which I met the likes of Michael, I met the likes of Lewis, and then you definately realise, truly no, there’s the additional step, that further tenth or two, and that is what Kimi’s obtained, he is obtained that further tenth or two.”
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