Peter Bonnington

He was trying to bring it back in.

And Bono's like, bro, we're not going to fix it.

Like, what do you think we're going to do? We're going to fix this thing.

Like you're done.

It's not a picture that's ever going to get to air that one.

You know, he was playing cards with Bono as well.

He was he was giving at all times, but.

He lost track time.

You kind of consolidate points.

And I think he's learning this because of a lot of the people around him.

And they are really helping and supporting him, the likes of Bono, Toto, Bradley at the weekend.

I think all these people, there's a lot more people than that, just in his camp, his dad, of course.

I don't know what they're doing there

... and that's so interesting that that has happened, because we were talking about this in the last race where Bono told Kimi Antonelli, "Slow down, a car's in the wall.

Slow down right to the pits and we might just get in when they throw this VSC" and that's exactly what happened.

Yeah.

It's true

...

it shows that Lewis Hamilton is clearly missing Bono a lot i- in that situation, because you, you literally have that evidence from the last race that Bono would've been there going, "There's a car in the wall, Lewis.

We're..." And talking him all the way around, like constant communication, "Come on, step ...

So, I mean, he's absolute gold, that guy, for the team, in my opinion.

I was thinking yesterday, though, chatting to Mark Slade about it, that one of the reasons possibly that Kimi is going so well and so comfortable at Mercedes, obviously he's got his own driving style, which we know and... and is there and it will always be there for him and it's always been his greatest asset but on top of that he's with Bono who's very good as we know Toto's a very good guy when it comes to saying the right thing at the right time for a guy like Kimi for sure and saw his talent early on which was brilliant but I think Frederick Vesti behind the scenes who's always been in my mind a short corner driver with a lot of finesse and touch i think he probably should get quite a lot of credit for some of the setup on that car and how well kimmy drives a vesti car if you like i'm not saying bestie has that much input on it but definitely he would because he does a lot of sim work and conversely i was wondering who plays the vesti role at red bull And if it's Yuki Tsunoda, it probably explains why Max is, you know, sometimes pretty upset with the way things are going.

Because they actually don't have, unless I'm missing something, they don't have a really supple, short corner driver like Vesti, who's intelligent and multilingual and very cool guy, at Red Bull doing all that sim work.

I mean, it used to be Sebastian Buemi, but I don't know if he's still there anymore.

He's had an incredible step up.

I think he's got a brilliant team around him, not only within Mercedes of Toto Wolff and Bono, his engineer, but also I think his family are pretty good at supporting him and holding him to account as well, not letting him lose himself.

But I do think, have we seen somebody like this before in Formula One where their second season they're not only challenging well for a championship and very much have one hand already on the title but they are giving off this sense of ease this sense of fun and maturity all at the same time

I don't think we have.

I think young Kimi is getting the right advice.

He's delivering upon that advice and he seems completely comfortable in his own skin where he is right now.

Well, I spoke to Kimi a little earlier on to find out about that fun he's having with the team and of course, his race engineer, Peter Bonington as well.

I think it's important to obviously need to pick the right moment to do so, to have a little laugh, a little fun.