Boris Becker winning Wimbledon at 17 in 1985; Mike Tyson winning the world heavyweight boxing championship at 20 in 1986; Stephen Hendry winning the World Snooker Championships at 21 in 1990; Luke Littler winning the World Darts Championship in 2025; to which ludicrous list can now be added the name Kimi Antonelli, winner of the world driver championship at 20 in 2026. Of course the car has plenty to do with it, but finding the confidence and nous to beat around tracks men who’ve been driving them for years is a rare old effort – the next youngest to take the title, Sebastian Vettel in 2010, was 23 at the time. The question now, though, is whether Antonelli can go again, and again, and again, as the distractions away from the race multiply and the other freaks of nature who call this mad pursuit work, find holes in his game while closing some in their own. All of which makes today’s jaunt an important one: can the champ, starting second on the grid, lay down a marker for next season, a