Kimi Antonelli has hailed his record-breaking Miami Grand Prix sprint qualifying lap as “mighty” en route to shattering an all-time Sebastian Vettel record.
Antonelli has become the youngest driver to start an F1 race in any format on pole position at 18 years, eight months, eight days.
It beats Vettel’s mark of 21 years, two months, 11 days from the 2008 Italian Grand Prix, although the German retains the youngest-ever grand prix pole-sitter record.
It is also the first time Antonelli has out-qualified team-mate George Russell, having already taken two F1 records from Max Verstappen in the Japanese GP of youngest driver to lead a race and youngest to set the fastest lap.
Reflecting on the qualifying, Antonelli described his…