Mercedes and its championship-leading young gun Kimi Antonelli have made fun of reality star Kim Kardashian\u2019s viral towel-pinching moment at the Monaco Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
After a weekend making headlines with her appearance at the famous race to support beau Lewis Hamilton, Kardashian sent the internet into a spin again after the race when video emerged of her picking up a towel which had been meant for race winner Antonelli.<\/p>\n
Kardashian was caught on camera walking past the P1 podium box and grabbing the white towel reserved for the winner to dab at her face.<\/p>\n
The moment has since become a viral meme on social media.<\/p>\n
The Mercedes social media team didn\u2019t miss an opportunity to make light of the great towel heist ahead of this weekend\u2019s grand prix in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
In a video posted to the team\u2019s Instagram, Antonelli and his teammate George Russell also get in on the fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was wondering. Have you seen my towel,\u201d Antonelli said to the camera in the clip.<\/p>\n
The camera then moves on to the Italian teenager\u2019s teammate Russell, who was asked: \u201cGeorge, have you seen Kimi\u2019s towel?\u201d to which the Brit replied, \u201cNo\u201d.<\/p>\n
The last part of the video sees Antonelli washing his hands at a sink before he again asks, \u201cHey, have you seen my towel?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Mercedes social media video has so far been shared more than 27,000 times and has had more than 18,000 comments.<\/p>\n
Towel-gate was not the only viral moment in Monaco for Kardashian, who also made headlines for brushing F1 commentator Martin Brundle during his iconic grid walk.<\/p>\n
Antonelli claimed his fifth straight win of the season with his victory in Monaco to extend his lead in the drivers\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes and its championship-leading young gun Kimi Antonelli have made fun of reality star Kim Kardashian\u2019s viral towel-pinching…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-731223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731223","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=731223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}