Max Verstappen won his second grand prix of the year in Singapore

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Toto Wolff joked after the race that he had come up with a novel plan to stop his driver Kimi Antonelli from repeatedly incurring track limits warnings in future.

“I want to put a pillow from the hotel under his a--- so he can see the road,” the Mercedes team principal said about the 5ft 6in Italian, who was shown a black-and-white flag in Singapore – effectively a final warning – for multiple violations.

Wolff could afford to laugh. Antonelli finished third here in the end which, combined with team-mate George Russell’s ninth place, lifted the 20-year-old 102 points clear in the title race. Antonelli could conceivably become F1’s youngest ever world champion as early as the next round in Austin in a fortnight’s time.

Kimi Antonelli is on the verge of becoming the sport’s youngest-ever world champion

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It would require a particular set of circumstances.…