{"id":5978,"date":"2026-11-01T22:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/kimi-antonelli-becomes-youngest-formula-one-world-champion-at-age-20\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:45:44","slug":"kimi-antonelli-becomes-youngest-formula-one-world-champion-at-age-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/kimi-antonelli-becomes-youngest-formula-one-world-champion-at-age-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli becomes youngest Formula One world champion at age 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Kimi-Antonelli-becomes-youngest-Formula-One-world-champion-at-age-20.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Kimi Antonelli becomes youngest Formula One world champion at age 20\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Kimi-Antonelli-becomes-youngest-Formula-One-world-champion-at-age-20.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AFP__20261101__D64A4PR__v1__MidRes__AutoPrixF1MexRace-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AFP__20261101__D64A4PR__v1__MidRes__AutoPrixF1MexRace-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AFP__20261101__D64A4PR__v1__MidRes__AutoPrixF1MexRace.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kimi Antonelli drove the perfect race to finish third in his Mercedes at the Mexico Grand Prix and seal his place in Formula One history as the youngest world champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Max Verstappen took the chequered flag but all eyes were on the young Italian who takes the crown at the age of 20 years and 68 days, more than three years younger than Sebastian Vettel in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is the first Italian to win the title since Alberto Ascari in 1953.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/kimi-antonelli-becomes-youngest-formula-one-world-champion-at-age-20\/\">Kimi Antonelli becomes youngest Formula One world champion at age 20<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Antonelli drove the perfect race to finish third in his Mercedes at the Mexico Grand Prix and seal his place in Formula One history as the youngest world champion.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}