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Kimi Antonelli wins US Grand Prix, moves two points from F1 title
Kimi Antonelli won the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday with a dominant lights-to-flag drive, his ninth win of the season.[3, 4] The Mercedes driver is now two points from the 2026 Formula 1 world championship and can clinch it at next week's race in Mexico City if his teammate George Russell doesn't win that race.[5, 18, 21] Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff called the drive "the race of a champion who isn't the champion yet" and said Antonelli outperformed the car.[1, 7, 12]
Max Verstappen finished on the podium in Austin, his tenth podium of the season and sixth in a row since his crash at Zandvoort.[6] Fernando Alonso criticized Alex Albon after a first-lap collision he said cost Aston Martin a points finish, saying the quality of drivers in the bottom third of the grid "is very low."[9, 11] George Russell, who entered the season as a title favorite, called his own pace "rubbish," and his long-term Mercedes future has been questioned following the race.[14, 19]
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