Kimi Antonelli celebrating with the Mercedes team after winning the US Grand Prix. He is surrounded by people taking photographs or holding microphonesImage source, PA Media
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Kimi Antonelli needs two points in Mexico to be certain of becoming world champion

ByAndrew BensonF1 Correspondent in Austin

The race that took Kimi Antonelli to the brink of a record-breaking world championship was, in the words of his Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, "the best he has delivered so far" and "the race of a champion who isn't the champion yet".

Not yet. Not quite. But so very near.

The 20-year-old Italian's victory in the United States Grand Prix puts him in an impregnable position.