从第19位发车夺冠：基米·安东内利在蒙扎创造历史
基米·安东内利从第19位发车，超越几乎全部对手赢得意大利大奖赛冠军，成为自1966年以来首位在蒙扎夺冠的意大利车手。
昨晚谁睡得最好：马尔科·安东内利
基米·安东内利现在正式成为全意大利之子——他的父亲一定为此感到骄傲
形容词都是多余的。事实和数字通常更有说服力。从发车（发车区）第19位起步夺冠。这是自1966年以来意大利车手在蒙扎的首场胜利。而且年仅20岁。这只是他的第二个一级方程式赛季。
你可以称之为轰动。精彩。令人印象深刻。神奇。非凡。卓越。难以置信。历史性的。这些都只是词语。仅凭基米·安东内利在超越了几乎整个车阵之后赢得意大利大奖赛这一事实，就说明了一切。
而这一切……距离他在这同一条赛道上的首次自由练习赛（FP1）仅仅过去了两年。那一次练习赛开始仅仅10分钟，他就撞上了护栏，以撞车告终。
很多人认为，那次撞车很大程度上让他们形成了这样的看法：梅赛德斯要么高估了安东内利的潜力，要么过快地把他推进了F1。他们说，托托·沃尔夫对2014年眼睁睁看着维斯塔潘加盟红牛的记忆，蒙蔽了他的头脑。他们认为，安东内利远没有维斯塔潘那样的潜力。他们相信，他只是被过度炒作了。
梅赛德斯和沃尔夫从未退缩。年仅18岁就升入F1，在此之前只跑了一个F2赛季——说实话，那个赛季还相当平庸。而且直接接替了七届世界冠军留下的席位。
他们甚至在他的首个赛季仅进行了两个月时就发布了一部纪录片，当然，是和赞助商之一合作制作的。
你看过了吗？如果你能接受里面所有的宣传内容，其实还挺不错的。
蒙扎的那次撞车是那部影片的一部分，在40分钟的视频里占了相当大的一段。
"那一天，我让我的全家、我的爸爸都失望了，"基米坐在镜头前说道，"他很不高兴。"
沃尔夫无疑是在安东内利职业生涯中扮演了重要角色的人之一，还有即将离任的梅赛德斯青训项目主管格温·拉格吕，但真正打下基础的是基米的父亲马尔科。他不常接受媒体采访，他儿子早期职业生涯的细节也不像例如维斯塔潘的那样广为人知。没错，马尔科也当过车手——但他毕竟不是一级方程式车手。
这样的难得时刻之一就在几天前出现了：在基米二十岁生日之后，意大利《米兰体育报》刊登了对老安东内利的采访。
马尔科对这家意大利最大的体育报纸说："我也希望他能保持本色，保持甜美和慷慨，并且尽可能长久地继续做他热爱的事情。"
马尔科·安东内利在赛后封闭区庆祝。
基米看起来确实是个甜美而慷慨的小伙子，这让乔治·拉塞尔这样的人可能更加难受。无论这孩子一次次击败你，你都无法恨他——赛道下如此甜美，开起车来却像个魔鬼！
然而，尽管他现在把这一切都表现得像一场游戏，这段旅程无疑一直很艰辛——对儿子和父亲来说都是如此。也许对他们的父子关系来说也是。马尔科或许从未在一场令人失望的卡丁车比赛后把儿子独自丢在加油站，但成功运动员的父亲通常都是严苛的那种人。
在这部纪录片中有一个片段：在基米首个F1赛季前的那个冬天，两人一起坐在车里，由马尔科开车。他的儿子说，小时候他不明白为什么父亲对他如此严厉。
老安东内利回应道：“这是我们从未谈论过的事情，但这个时刻是一个解释的机会。我常常回想起所有我对你大吼的时刻，所有我对你发火的时刻。你曾说过，‘我爸爸是个混蛋，他为什么要这样？’——那是因为在我的职业生涯中，很遗憾我没能出头，没能抓住我拥有的那些机会。这就是为什么我们当时会争吵，因为我可能在要求你做到那一刻你还做不到的事情。
这至少让你得以窥见这段旅程可能是什么样子。
在后来一次难得的采访中，马尔科承认，作为父亲，他自己对基米潜力的信任，很可能都不如沃尔夫那么深。如今他承认，儿子的表现也超出了他的预期。
对安东内利来说，现在最后一个真正的挑战似乎是保持脚踏实地。因为一切理由都表明，腾飞的时刻即将到来。从发车区倒数第二排起步并在蒙扎夺冠，将为他带来来自四面八方的大量赞誉。
意大利肯定会毫不吝啬地把它的热爱倾注到他身上。
考虑到他在积分榜上与拉塞尔的差距，这场比赛之后，很多人肯定会宣布他就是世界冠军。而很快他自己也肯定会开始思考如何真正成为世界冠军——如果他还没有开始这么想的话。
就目前而言，他一直在努力驱散这些念头——至少在面对媒体时是这样。
“我的意思是，到目前为止这确实是非常强势的一年，但还有很多场比赛，所以一切都有可能发生，”在周日那场历史性的、轰动性的、非凡的胜利之后，他再次低声说道，“我们也见过局势可以很快发生逆转。所以，在我这边，就像我说过很多次的，一场一场地比，专注于我能控制的事情，最大化我获得的每一次机会。”
他的父亲肯定会满意这个回答。他也一定会尽力确保安东内利不会被即将到来的一切冲昏头脑。不过那是稍后再考虑的事情。
就现在而言，马尔科·安东内利只需要做一位骄傲的父亲。
英文原文
Who slept best last night: Marco Antonelli
Kimi Antonelli is now officially a son of the whole nation - something his dad is surely proud of
Adjectives are overrated. Facts and numbers usually speak louder. A victory from 19th on the grid. The first victory for an Italian at Monza since 1966. At just 20 years old. In his second Formula 1 season.
Call it sensational. Fantastic. Impressive. Magic. Extraordinary. Remarkable. Incredible. Historic. These are just words. Simply the fact that Kimi Antonelli won the Italian Grand Prix after overtaking almost the entire field tells you everything.
And... just two years after his first-ever FP1 at the same track. The one that ended in the barriers just 10 minutes after the session started.
That crash contributed a lot to many forming the opinion that Mercedes had either overestimated Antonelli's potential or rushed him into F1 too quickly. Toto Wolff's flashbacks to losing Max Verstappen to Red Bull back in 2014 had fogged his mind, they said. Antonelli was nowhere near Verstappen's potential, they thought. He was just overhyped, they believed.
Mercedes and Wolff never backed down. Promotion to F1 at the age of 18, after a single - and quite average, to be fair - season in F2. Straight into the seat vacated by the seven-time world champion.
They even released a documentary just two months into his first season, in cooperation with one of the sponsors, of course.
Have you watched it? It's actually decent if you make your peace with all the promotional content.
The Monza crash was part of that movie and took up quite a decent chunk of the 40-minute video.
"That day, I let down all my family, my dad," Kimi said, sitting in front of the camera. "He was not happy."
Wolff is surely someone who has played a major role in Antonelli's career, along with Gwen Lagrue, the outgoing Mercedes junior programme chief, but it was Kimi's father Marco who laid the foundations. He doesn't often speak to the media, and the details of his son's early career aren't as well known as, for example, those of Verstappen. Yes, Marco was a driver too - but he wasn't an F1 driver, after all.
One of those rare occasions came just a few days ago, when Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport published an interview with Antonelli Sr after Kimi's 20th birthday.
"I also hope he remains who he is, sweet and generous, and continues to do what he loves for as long as possible," Marco told Italy's biggest sports newspaper.
Marco Antonelli celebrates in parc ferme.
Kimi does indeed seem like a sweet and generous guy, which probably makes it even harder for someone like George Russell. You can't even hate the kid, however much he keeps beating you - so sweet off track, yet driving like a devil!
Yet, despite him now making it all look like a game, it has surely been a tough journey - both for son and father. And perhaps for their relationship, too. Marco may never have left his son alone at a petrol station after a disappointing kart race, but dads of successful athletes are usually of a demanding kind.
There's a moment in the documentary when they are shown together in a car during the winter leading up to Kimi's first F1 season, with Marco behind the wheel. His son says he didn't understand as a kid why his father was so tough on him.
"This is something we never talked about, but this moment is an opportunity to explain," Antonelli Sr responds. "I often think about all the times I yelled at you, all the times I got angry with you. You said, 'My father is an asshole. Why does he do that?' - [it's] because in my career, unfortunately I couldn't get ahead. I couldn't take advantage of the opportunities I had. That's why we were fighting, because I was probably asking you to do more than you could in that moment."
That gives you at least a glimpse of what the journey might have been like.
In one of his rare interviews later, Marco would admit that he himself - as a parent - probably didn't believe in Kimi's potential as much as Wolff did. Now, he admits his son is exceeding his expectations too.
The last real challenge for Antonelli now seems to be keeping his feet on the ground. Because there's every reason for them to start taking off. Winning at Monza from the penultimate row of the grid will bring no shortage of praise from all directions.
Italy certainly won't hold back in imposing its love upon him.
He'll surely be declared world champion by many after this race, given the gap to Russell in the championship. And very soon he'll surely start thinking about becoming one himself - if he hasn't already.
For now, he keeps battling those thoughts away - at least when speaking to the press.
"I mean, definitely it’s been a very strong year so far, but still many races left and so still anything can happen," he muttered again on Sunday after his historic, sensational and remarkable win. "And we’ve seen how things can swing very quickly. So, on my side, as I said many times, just take it race by race, focus on things that I can control and just maximise every opportunity I get."
His father will surely approve of that answer. And he'll certainly do his best to make sure Kimi doesn't get carried away by everything that's about to come his way. But that's something to think about a little later.
For now, though, Marco Antonelli can simply be a proud dad.
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