Kimi Antonelli has been warned by former F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya that while the “crazy pressure” may have lifted after building a 43-point lead in the drivers’ championship, things can quickly change if mistakes pile up.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old secured a fourth consecutive victory in the Canadian Grand Prix to increase his advantage over George Russell to a healthy margin after just five races, helped by the latter’s retirement.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Russell had been leading in Montreal before suffering a sudden battery failure on lap 30, marking a significant blow to the Briton’s title hopes.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Antonelli, meanwhile, has been going from strength to strength, with his shaky start to the season in Australia appearing like a distant memory.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The championship leader is becoming a real force with significant momentum, although things can change very quickly.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri lost a 34-point lead while at the top of the standings last year, proving that while Antonelli can now afford a couple of poor races, he cannot relax completely, despite Russell believing there is a force working against him in the title fight.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Addressing Russell’s claim that it feels like something is against him in the title fight, Montoya told F1: “Champion’s luck. It’s just that when things are meant for you, they are meant for you.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But it’s still a long championship, and things can turn really quickly.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“What this definitely does is take that crazy pressure off Antonelli. He knows that he can fumble a couple of times, maybe.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“If George beats him a couple of times, it’s not the end of the world. The thing is, you cannot let it happen too often, because then the ball starts rolling out of control.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli has been warned by former F1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya that while the “crazy pressure” may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-706248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}