{
  "id": 18402692,
  "title": "Mercedes held its breath over Kimi Antonelli’s title-winning move on Charles Leclerc",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/mercedes-held-its-breath-over-kimi-antonellis-title-winning-move-on",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-05T23:28:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Motorsport.com",
    "slug": "motorsport-com",
    "url": "https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/kimi-antonelli-reveals-the-dark-2025-slump-that-built-a-champion-i-questioned-myself-over-and-over/10871786/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "All Kimi Antonelli needed to do at the Mexico City Grand Prix was finish ninth. Instead, the new world champion chose to clinch the title with a late-braking lunge on Charles Leclerc into Turn 1, and not everyone at Mercedes was comfortable watching it. Speaking on the Nu Silver Arrows Radio Show, Antonelli revealed that some members of the team questioned why he had taken the risk, with the ...…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yahoo Sports",
        "title": "Toto Wolff reveals how Kimi Antonelli came to his office with title pressure “on his chest”",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/04/toto-wolff-reveals-how-kimi-antonelli-came-to-his-office-with-title",
        "published": "2026-11-04T16:33:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}