Mercedes has shared a glimpse into Kimi Antonelli’s playful relationship together with his race engineer Peter ‘Bono’ Bonnington, because the 19-year-old driver performed one more prank on the Briton.
After stepping as much as a full-time System 1 seat with Mercedes in 2025, taking the seat left behind by seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, a prank struggle between Antonelli and Bonnington started. It began with the Italian driver shoving a cream cake into his race engineer’s face on the Bahrain check, which coincided with Bonnington’s birthday.
The Mercedes driver later tracked Bonnington via the paddock armed with a water gun, repeatedly drenching him.
This time, Antonelli determined to dam Bonnington’s entry card. “I am blocking Bono’s entry card. All over the place,” he stated with a cheeky grin. As soon as it was confirmed that the cardboard wouldn’t work anyplace on the Brackley outfit, he stated, “OK, do not change it till he tries to return in. Then say you do not know something about it.”
After Bonnington tried to make use of his card, he stated with a smile, “The little s*** has executed it once more.”
The video posted by Mercedes has already been seen 1.4 million occasions and has amassed 228,000 likes. “The way in which he knew instantly,” one fan commented, whereas one other added: “Bono and Kimi gotta be my favorite driver & engineer duo on the grid rn.”
“How do you clarify that this little child is the chief of the championship,” wrote one other viewer, and another person posted: “I simply want an entire section of Kimi vs Bono pranks.”
Antonelli at the moment leads the drivers’ championship by 20 factors over his team-mate George Russell in second place. Whereas Russell gained the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and the Chinese language dash race, Antonelli gained the Chinese language, Japanese and Miami Grands Prix, turning into the youngest driver to steer the drivers’ championship within the historical past of F1.
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