Kimi Antonelli WINS the US Grand Prix but is forced to wait for F1 title - as triumph in Texas puts Mercedes star on the brink of history

It was a day of high jeopardy and Kimi Antonelli’s father Marco kissed him on the forehead on the grid at the Circuit of the Americas. Antonelli, 20, was a little red in the face, nothing to do with any embarrassment at his dad’s tenderness, but perhaps a sign he was feeling the weight of history on this warm afternoon that yielded a huge win for him if not the total fulfilment of his title ambitions. Not yet. That will inevitably come.