For better or for worse, there seems to be no slowing down Kimi Antonelli.

Just ask Pete Bonnington, who channelled his inner schoolteacher in Madrid as he relentlessly had to remind the 20-year-old Italian to pay attention to track limits.

Having benefited from an earlier virtual safety car on a circuit where overtaking proved impossible, all Antonelli had to do was to keep it clean until the finish line, with Max Verstappen and Lando Norris resigned to following him home.

Bonnington and Mercedes had already suffered a scare earlier in the race with what almost sounded like a prank call from the young Italian.