"I couldn't believe it because it was going from bad to worse," Kimi Antonelli admitted after a Silverstone afternoon that had victory within his grasp. Starting from pole, he had trimmed the gap to Charles Leclerc to next to nothing, but on lap 41 a loose cover on his front-left wheel turned the race on its head. Two forced pit stops and the loss of downforce pushed him beyond track limits and into a five-second penalty. Then came the safety car, triggered by Max Verstappen's incident, and it left the Italian stranded outside the points in P16. His 40-point cushion over George Russell has now shrunk to 25 — the second technical failure of his season. Antonelli had won Saturday's sprint, yet on Sunday the car betrayed him again, in an uncomfortable echo of Barcelona. Can the young talent hold up under this psychological pressure and strike back in Belgium?
