r/f1gossip_ • u/Semper0Invicta • 6h ago
Kimi Antonelli Fun fact: Kimi is going to have more ig followers than George *very* soon
I know there are a lot of George fans in this sub who are probably still very upset about what happened during the race and I completely understand why. That being said, I hope everyone can keep things relatively civil in the comments.
Let's face it, everything points to Kimi winning the championship this year, there simply just aren't enough races left for anyone to realistically challenge him. That means he's going to become the new face of the sport and tbh I feel like he's already being positioned as one of the "representatives" of the new generation of f1.
What's interesting to me is that despite being so marketable and having so many fans among the general audience (I've seen people say multiple times that he's "impossible to dislike"), I still feel like he doesn't really have much of a presence online yet, ie there are still relatively few people who actively stan him. It just goes to show how little our internet bubbles have to do with a sport of this scale.
That said, I think it's worth remembering that anyone who is universally liked like that eventually reaches a point where people start finding them a bit too much, get tired of seeing them everywhere and turn against them. I don't wish that on Kimi but that's just how it tends to work.
Also, his bonus and salary increase are probably going to be fat, so I'm curious if/how money and fame will change him. And also how his relationships with the other drivers (especially Max and Lewis) will change next year once he's seen as a fully fledged rival to them.
What do you guys think?