• Mercedes team principal hits out at ‘selfish’ drivers

  • Antonelli says he will keep No 12 on his car next season

The Mercedes team principal, Toto Wolff, has described his Formula One world champion Kimi Antonelli as a new kind of racing driver who represents the future of the sport, com­paring him scathingly to what he called some of the entitled ­moaners on the grid and declaring “selfless, ruthless” drivers now dead to F1.

Antonelli secured his first world title in Mexico City on Sunday, at 20 years old becoming the ­youngest F1 champion in only his second season in the sport. The ­Italian’s attitude, enthusiasm and sense of fair play have been notable in a revelatory season for a driver so young and Wolff believes he has proved to be a gamechanger in more ways than one.

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