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At the end of his post-race media briefing @MercedesAMGF1 Toto Wolff gave an unprompted overview of what makes Kimi Antonelli's success so special. You must read his words: "This notion of win at all costs, selfish, opportunistic, ruthless for your own benefit - that model of racing driver has died. We have a new champion that represents values like humility, like integrity, loyalty, respect, being himself, and should be a role model for many other young drivers in junior formulas, and should be a role model for the few entitled ones in F1, the endless moaners on the radio, the ones that complain, the ones that crash. "Look at this kid of 20 years, and then think what you can do in order to improve. That's the message to these kids. That is how the FIA, that's how Mohammed, and Stefano, that's how I would want to see racing drivers in the future. That is modern F1. Kimi represents the modern F1 driver because of those values, not only because of his talent. "That comes, but the talent is there in everyone. But you've got to be a good person too, and he has demonstrated that you can beat everyone out there by being a good person."