{"id":637820,"date":"2026-06-14T06:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637820\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:22:14","slug":"kim-kardashian-sends-gift-to-kimi-antonelli-after-viral-monaco-gp-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637820\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Kardashian sends gift to Kimi Antonelli after viral Monaco GP mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mercedes\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mercedes<\/a> Formula 1 driver Kimi Antonelli has received an unexpected gift from reality television star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian, following her Monaco Grand Prix podium celebration mishap.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli was handed an embroidered towel wrapped in a bow, with the message, &#8220;To Kimi, from Kim&#8221;, following the second free practice session ahead of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>This came after Kardashian, who was supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/lewis-hamilton\/1278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> on the podium, picked up an unused towel left by Antonelli after getting sprayed with champagne. Footage of the seemingly innocent moment quickly went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>While Antonelli and Mercedes poked fun at and laughed off the moment, Kardashian received a lot of backlash online. But the gift has now hopefully brought that to an end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winning successive races, getting personalised toiletries from Kim K, overcoming TIO2 curse. Kid&#8217;s on a roll!&#8221; one fan commented on\u00a0Reddit, while another added: &#8220;She had the opportunity to do something funny and she did it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m glad something funny turned out from all the commotion of her grabbing the towel,&#8221; someone else posted, and another wrote: &#8220;Wait till this makes it to Drive to Survive. Towel Gate is gonna have a whole episode.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further comments included: &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen a fanbase get SO angry about something so innocent, it&#8217;s insane how weird a sector of F1 fandom has gotten, like people calling for her to be banned after smiling and not talking to Martin [Brundle] and Towel Gate &#8211; people need to touch grass for real,&#8221; and &#8220;All that hate and this is actually quite wholesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli received the towel during the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix weekend. He heads into the race with a 66-point lead in the standings over Hamilton.\u00a0Antonelli&#8217;s team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/george-russell\/21167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">George Russell<\/a> follows in third, two points behind the seven-time champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photos from Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix &#8211; Saturday<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercedes Formula 1 driver Kimi Antonelli has received an unexpected gift from reality television star and entrepreneur Kim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8895,214695,6491,96,214696,372,215388,6964,6541,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andrea-kimi-antonelli","tag-barcelona-catalunya-gp","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-f1-barcelona-catalunya-grand-prix","tag-formula-1","tag-kim-kardashian-sends-gift-to-kimi-antonelli-after-viral-monaco-gp-mishap","tag-mercedes","tag-trendingteam","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}