Kimi Antonelli Age 2026: The 20-Year-Old World Champion

Kimi Antonelli is 20 years old in 2026 — the youngest F1 world champion ever. His Bologna childhood, record rookie year and the Mexico title that made history.

Last updated: November 10, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Kimi Antonelli is 20 years old in 2026 — and he is already the Formula 1 world champion. Andrea Kimi Antonelli was born on August 25, 2006, in Bologna, Italy, and on November 1, 2026, he finished third at the Mexico City Grand Prix to clinch the drivers’ title at 20 years and 68 days old. He is the youngest world champion in the history of Formula 1, more than three years younger than the previous record holder, Sebastian Vettel, and the first Italian champion since Alberto Ascari in 1953. He did it in his second season in the sport, driving car number 12 for Mercedes.

The age is the story, and it is also the trap. Half the pages on the internet still say Antonelli is 19, because they were written before his birthday on August 25, 2026 — and a good number of them were written before November 1, when he became champion at all. This article is dated November 10, 2026, and it is written after both: he is 20, he is the world champion, and the numbers below are the ones that count now. The rest of the story is how a boy from Bologna got there so fast — karting at five, a European title at 14, four single-seater championships in two years, Lewis Hamilton’s seat at 18, and a rookie season that broke records before the title season broke the biggest one of all.

This article works through the whole story behind the age: the Bologna childhood in a racing family, the karting years, the junior ladder that Mercedes fast-tracked, the 2025 rookie season, the nine wins of 2026, the Mexico title, the money — a net worth estimated at $18 million with a salary figure the outlets cannot agree on — and the personal life, including a relationship that ended in February 2026. The net-worth figure is an estimate, and this article says exactly how it was reached and why other sites give different numbers.

Quick Facts

Full Name Andrea Kimi Antonelli
Age in 2026 20 years old (born August 25, 2006; turns 21 on August 25, 2027)
Born August 25, 2006, Bologna, Italy
Height 5 ft 8 in (172 cm) — reported
Occupation Formula 1 racing driver, Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team
Car Number 12
Known For Youngest F1 world champion ever (2026, aged 20 years 68 days)
F1 Career 2025–present, Mercedes; 43 starts, 9 wins, 7 poles, 19 podiums (as of São Paulo GP 2026)
Parents Marco Antonelli (father); Veronica Pomaro (mother)
Partner Single — relationship with Eliška Bábíčková ended February 2026
Net Worth Estimated $18 million (2026); range $5–18 million
Team Boss Toto Wolff, Mercedes

How This Estimate Was Made

Kimi Antonelli has never disclosed his earnings, and Mercedes has never published his contract. Every number attached to his name is a third-party estimate, so this article treats the figure the way a reporter treats any unverified claim: it collects the recent estimates, checks which ones agree, and names the ones that do not. The anchor is $18 million. Celebrity Net Worth lists $18 million, updated June 8, 2026, with a snapshot dated November 6, 2026 — after the title win — and Augustman reported the same $18 million figure on November 2, 2026, the day after Mexico. That is the freshest post-championship figure available, and it is the reason this article anchors on $18 million.

The honest range is $5–18 million, and it is wide for a reason: Antonelli is 20, he has had two Formula 1 seasons, and the outlets are valuing the same two years of earnings with very different assumptions. The low end is $5 million (F1Salaries; Bet365 gives $5–11.5 million as of early 2026; SportsJone and Hudson Farmhouse give $5–15 million). F1Salaries separately lists an $8 million net worth against $13.54 million in prorated career earnings, which sits inside the range. This article reports the range as $5–18 million, with $18 million as the figure the most recent post-title reporting gives. The range reflects a real fact about his money: a 20-year-old’s fortune is mostly future earnings, and the estimates disagree about how much of that future to count.

The salary is a separate disagreement, and it is reported as one. Early reports put his Mercedes base at $2 million (RacingNews365, NBC Miami). Gazzetta dello Sport, via F1Salaries on November 8, 2026, reports $3.4 million (€3 million) — the most specific figure, and the one this article uses as its working number. Forbes and Celebrity Net Worth put the base at $5 million. For 2025, Celebrity Net Worth breaks the total down as a $5 million base plus $7.5 million in bonuses for finishing seventh — $12.5 million in all — and Yardbarker puts his 2026 potential bonus at around $12 million, with Bild reporting that the title lifts his 2026 pay to about $11 million once bonuses are added. No outlet has confirmed any of these figures with Mercedes, and this article does not present any of them as fact.

Kimi Antonelli age 2026 — stylized illustrated portrait of Kimi Antonelli in a Mercedes racing suit holding his helmet on a racetrack at dusk, KIMI ANTONELLI AGE 2026 20 YEARS OLD text in gold
Kimi Antonelli in 2026 — 20 years old, a Mercedes driver, and the youngest Formula 1 world champion in history. Illustrated for Guide Net Worth.

Who Is Kimi Antonelli?

Kimi Antonelli is an Italian Formula 1 driver, and as of November 1, 2026, he is the world champion — the youngest in the sport’s 76-year history. He drives car number 12 for Mercedes, the team he joined as a boy in its junior programme, and he won the title in his second season, with nine Grand Prix victories, seven pole positions and 19 podiums from 43 starts. He is 20 years old. The previous youngest champion, Sebastian Vettel, was 23 when he won his first title in 2010. Antonelli beat that record by more than three years, and he is the first Italian to win the championship since Alberto Ascari in 1953 — 73 years ago.

The speed of the rise is the thing people struggle to believe, and it is the reason this article exists in the form it does. Antonelli did not climb the ladder the normal way. He started karting at five, won a European championship at 14, won four single-seater titles in two years, skipped Formula 3 entirely, spent one season in Formula 2, and was handed Lewis Hamilton‘s seat at Mercedes at 18 — while he was still finishing school. He passed his driving test six weeks before his first Grand Prix. He was studying for his Italian final exams online during the first half of his rookie season. And then he won the world championship at 20, in a season in which he won at Monaco from pole, won at Monza from 19th on the grid, and clinched the title with four races still to run.

He is also, by the standards of Formula 1, an unusually quiet champion. He does not court controversy, he does not do drama, and the most revealing thing he has said since winning the title is that he is superstitious about the number one — he has no intention of taking it into his first season as world champion, because he has never had much luck with it. The helmet he wore in tribute to Ayrton Senna tells you more about him than any interview: a 20-year-old who grew up idolising a driver who died before he was born, and who now holds the record Senna never had a chance to chase.

Born in Bologna: August 25, 2006

Andrea Kimi Antonelli was born on August 25, 2006, in Bologna, Italy, and grew up in nearby Casalecchio di Reno, in Emilia-Romagna — the region of Italy where racing is not a sport but a local industry. His father, Marco Antonelli, was a racing driver himself and runs Antonelli Motorsport, a GT racing team. His mother is Veronica Pomaro. To his mother and close family he is known as “Andy” or “Andrea” — “Kimi” is the name the racing world uses, taken from Kimi Räikkönen, the 2007 world champion his father admired. He was introduced to karting through his father and started driving at the Galliano Park circuit in Forlì at the age of five.

The family background matters because it explains the speed of everything that followed. Antonelli did not discover motorsport as a teenager. He grew up inside it — in a household where racing was the family business, with a father who ran a team and a home in the part of Italy where Ferrari, Lamborghini and Ducati all build their cars within an hour’s drive. The karting started at five because that is when it starts for children like him. The difference is what he did with it: by 14 he was a European champion, and by 18 he was in Formula 1. Most drivers from racing families never get that far. The family gave him the start. The talent did the rest.

He is 20 in November 2026, and he turns 21 on August 25, 2027. That is the answer to the question this article is built around, and it is worth stating plainly because so many pages get it wrong: he was 19 until August 25, 2026, and every profile written before that date says 19. If you are reading a page that calls him 19, it was written before his birthday — and if it also calls him a future champion rather than the champion, it was written before November 1. The age and the title changed within ten weeks of each other, and the internet has not caught up.

Karting Prodigy: A European Champion Before 15

Antonelli’s karting career ran from 2014 to 2021, and it ended the way it had gone all along: with him winning. He moved into the senior OK class in 2020, aged 13, and won the FIA Karting European Championship, the WSK Euro Series and the Italian championship in his first season — becoming the youngest senior European champion in history, two weeks after turning 14. The FIA named him its karting rookie of the year. In 2021 he defended the European title, winning five of the eight rounds, and then left karts for single-seaters. He was 15.

The karting record is the foundation of everything Mercedes saw in him, and it is worth reading in full because it shows a pattern that has repeated at every level since: he arrives, he wins quickly, and he moves up before anyone expects him to. He joined the Mercedes Junior Team while he was still in karts — Mercedes signed him as a boy, years before he had driven a single-seater, on the strength of results that were already extraordinary for his age. The team does not hand out junior contracts lightly. It gave one to a 12-year-old from Bologna, and it has never regretted it.

There is a detail in the karting years that says something about the driver he became. In 2019, still in the junior OK class, he won the WSK Euro Series and the Super Master Series titles, finished runner-up in the European championship and fifth in the world championship. He was 12 and 13 years old, racing against older children, and winning the series that mattered. The speed was never in doubt. The question was always whether it would survive the step up to cars — and the answer, delivered over the next four years, was that it would, at every level, without a pause.

The Junior Ladder: Four Titles in Two Years

Antonelli made his car-racing debut in the Italian F4 Championship with Prema at the Red Bull Ring in 2021, three weeks after his 15th birthday, and won four races in the rookie classification in just three rounds. In 2022 he went full-time and dominated: Italian F4 champion with a rookie-record 13 wins, and ADAC (German) F4 champion in the same year. Across his Formula 4 career he took 26 wins and 24 poles from 57 starts — a strike rate that made the rest of the ladder a formality. He also won a race in Italian GT3 and took a gold medal for Italy at the FIA Motorsport Games.

In 2023 he won both Formula Regional championships — the Middle East series with Mumbai Falcons, then the European championship with Prema, with five wins, 11 podiums and four poles and a 39-point margin over Martinius Stenshorne. That is four single-seater titles in two years, and it is the run that convinced Mercedes to skip a step entirely: instead of Formula 3, the normal next rung, Antonelli went straight to Formula 2 for 2024. Skipping a category is rare in modern motorsport, and teams only do it when they are certain the driver is ready. Mercedes was certain.

The two years also show the other side of the fast-track: the pressure. A driver who wins everything at 15 and 16 arrives in Formula 1 at 18 with expectations that no teenager can meet comfortably, and the scrutiny that follows is the kind that breaks careers. Antonelli’s answer to that pressure has been the same at every level — he keeps winning, and he keeps quiet about it. The four titles in two years are the reason the Mercedes seat was his to lose. The way he handled them is the reason he kept it.

Formula 2: Skipping F3, Winning at Silverstone and Budapest

Formula 2 in 2024 was Antonelli’s hardest season, and it is the one that tells you the most about him. He joined Prema alongside Oliver Bearman, in a year when the team had an off-year on reliability, and he finished sixth in the championship with 113 points — 38 ahead of Bearman. He won the sprint race at Silverstone and the feature race in Budapest, becoming the youngest multiple winner in Formula 2 history. Sixth does not sound like much after four titles in two years, and that is the point: it was the first season of his career in which he did not win the championship, and he still won twice and beat his team-mate by a clear margin.

The F2 season is also where the Hamilton story started. Antonelli took part in his first Formula 1 weekend in September 2024, driving in FP1 at Monza for Mercedes — and crashed at the Parabolica minutes into the session. It was an embarrassing debut in front of his home crowd, and it could have been the end of the conversation. The next morning, Mercedes announced him as Lewis Hamilton‘s replacement for 2025 anyway. The team had seen enough in testing, in the junior categories and in the F2 season to make the call, and a crash in a practice session did not change it. Toto Wolff, the team principal who made the decision, has since called it one of the biggest calls the team has made — and the title in Mexico is the reason nobody questions it now.

He was 18 when the announcement came, and he was still finishing school. He passed his driving test six weeks before his first Grand Prix, and he studied online for his Italian final exams through the first half of his rookie season. The image of a Formula 1 driver doing homework between races is not a marketing story. It is what his 2025 season actually looked like, and it is the detail that makes the rookie year that followed so remarkable: he was a schoolboy and a Grand Prix driver at the same time, and he was better at the second job than drivers twice his age.

Illustrated silver Formula 1 car speeding through a corner at night with sparks flying, dark navy and teal
The Mercedes W17 at full speed — Antonelli’s car for the championship season of 2026. Illustrated for Guide Net Worth.

The Rookie Season: Records at 18

Antonelli’s debut came at the 2025 Australian Grand Prix, where he started 16th in the wet and finished fourth — the second-youngest points scorer in Formula 1 history, and the third-youngest driver ever to start a Grand Prix, at 18 years, 6 months and 19 days. It was the first time a rookie had driven for Mercedes since the 1950s, and the fourth place in the rain announced him more clearly than any press release could have. He was 18, in his first race, in the worst conditions, and he finished fourth.

The records kept coming. At the Japanese Grand Prix he became the youngest driver ever to lead a Grand Prix and the youngest ever to set a fastest lap, aged 18 years, 7 months and 12 days. At Miami on May 3, 2025, he took pole position for the sprint race — the youngest pole-sitter of any kind in Formula 1 history. At the Canadian Grand Prix he finished third, holding off championship leader Oscar Piastri, to become the third-youngest podium finisher in the sport’s history. He ended the year seventh in the championship with 150 points — the highest score ever recorded by a Formula 1 rookie — with three podiums: Canada, São Paulo (second) and Las Vegas (third). He finished six points behind Hamilton in the standings.

The rookie season was not perfect. There were retirements in Imola, Spain, Austria and Britain, a 16th in Belgium after starting from the pit lane, and a 15th in Abu Dhabi to end the year. But the shape of it was unmistakable: a teenager who had started the season doing school exams online had finished it as the best rookie in the history of the sport, in a Mercedes, with three podiums and a pole. The team extended his contract in October 2025, keeping him alongside George Russell for 2026. The extension is reported to run through the end of 2027. The title came twelve months later.

First Win: China, March 2026

Antonelli’s first Grand Prix victory came at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on March 15, 2026 — in only his second season, and in the third race of the year. He became the second-youngest winner in Formula 1 history, and the win set the tone for everything that followed: he led the championship at 19, with two wins and two poles from the first three races, and he never gave the lead up. The early-season form was the reason the title race was over by November rather than December. He did not chase the championship. He led it from March and defended it.

The wins kept coming through the season. At Monaco he won from pole position — his fifth Grand Prix win of the year, according to Celebrity Net Worth — in the race every driver wants to win most. At Monza, his home race, he won from 19th on the grid, a drive that the paddock talked about for weeks: starting at the back, in front of the Italian crowd, and winning anyway. By the São Paulo Grand Prix he had nine wins, seven poles, 10 fastest laps and 19 podiums from 43 starts, and 530 points in his career after Mexico. The numbers are the numbers of a driver in his prime, not a driver in his second season — and he is 20.

The China win is also the answer to the question people ask about whether the 2025 rookie season was a fluke. It was not. A driver who finishes seventh as a rookie and wins in the third race of his second season is not lucky. He is fast, and the car was fast with him in it. The Mercedes W17 and the 20-year-old in car number 12 were the combination of the 2026 season, and the constructors’ championship — Mercedes 126 points clear of Ferrari with four races to go, able to clinch in São Paulo — is the proof that it was the team as well as the driver. Both titles were coming. Antonelli’s just arrived first.

Mexico 2026: The Youngest World Champion Ever

November 1, 2026, Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City. Antonelli needed only a third-place finish to clinch the championship, and that is what he did — behind race winner Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, the two men whose records and seats define his career. He crossed the line third, and he was the world champion at 20 years and 68 days old. He left Mexico on 380 points, 119 ahead of Verstappen, with four rounds still to run. On the podium, Verstappen and Hamilton lifted the 20-year-old onto their shoulders to welcome him into the most exclusive club in the sport. He sobbed with joy over the team radio as he took the chequered flag.

The record he broke had stood since 2010, when Sebastian Vettel won his first title at 23 years and 134 days. Antonelli beat it by more than three years — a margin so large that it will take a generational talent to beat it again, because the rules now require drivers to be 18 before they can race in Formula 1, and winning a title at 20 means winning it in your second season. He is also the first Italian champion since Alberto Ascari in 1953, 73 years ago, and the first Italian to win a Grand Prix in decades. The celebrations in Bologna and Casalecchio di Reno went on for days, and the Italian press called him the driver the country had waited three generations for.

There is a detail from the week after Mexico that says more about Antonelli than the title itself. In an interview with Motor Sport Magazine on November 6, he explained the helmet he had worn in tribute to Ayrton Senna — and said he has no intention of taking the number one into his first season as world champion, because he is superstitious and has never had much luck whenever he has used the number one. A 20-year-old world champion, talking about luck and Senna, a week after making history. For the full picture of the man he beat to the title, see Max Verstappen’s height on our sister site CelebAmerica — the four-time champion who won in Mexico and still finished 119 points behind.

Illustrated young Formula 1 world champion lifting a gold trophy on the podium as confetti falls, dark navy and gold
Mexico City, November 1, 2026: third place, and the world championship at 20 years and 68 days. Illustrated for Guide Net Worth.

Every Age Record Antonelli Now Holds

The title is the biggest record, but it is not the only one. Antonelli’s career is a list of youngest-evers, and they are worth setting out together because they show how the record was built — not in one season, but at every step of the way up. He has been the youngest at everything he has done since he was 14, and the championship is the last item on a list that started in karts.

Record Age When
Youngest senior European karting champion 14 years 2020, two weeks after turning 14
Youngest multiple winner in Formula 2 17–18 years 2024 (Silverstone + Budapest)
Third-youngest driver to start an F1 race 18 years, 6 months, 19 days Australia 2025
Youngest driver to lead a Grand Prix 18 years, 7 months, 12 days Japan 2025
Youngest driver to set a fastest lap 18 years, 7 months, 12 days Japan 2025
Youngest pole-sitter of any kind 18 years Miami sprint, May 3, 2025
Second-youngest F1 race winner 19 years China, March 15, 2026
Youngest Formula 1 world champion 20 years, 68 days Mexico, November 1, 2026

The table also shows the scale of what comes next. At 20, Antonelli has the record book in front of him and a decade or more to write in it. Motor Sport Magazine’s question — how many records can he break? — has a simple answer: at ten wins a season he reaches a hundred in ten seasons, at 30 years old. At eight a season it takes twelve or thirteen, to 2039, aged 33. He turns 35 in 2041. The numbers are speculative, and this article does not present them as predictions. They are the arithmetic of a career that started this early: the records are not the question. The time is.

How Tall Is Kimi Antonelli? 5 Feet 8 Inches

Antonelli is 5 feet 8 inches tall (172 cm), according to the consensus across the biography sites that list his measurements — Hudson Farmhouse, Biography Wallah, SportsJone, CelebsWiki, Daily Odyssey and LiveMint all give 5 ft 8 in, or 1.72 m. There is no official measurement on record, so the number should be treated as reported rather than verified, but the agreement across independent pages makes it the best available figure. His weight is reported at around 64–70 kg (141–154 lbs), depending on the source — the range is wide because drivers’ weights change through a season, and no outlet has a measured figure.

One page disagrees wildly, and it is worth naming because it shows how a wrong number gets loose. HealthyCeleb lists Antonelli at 6 ft 1 in (186 cm) and calls him one of the taller drivers on the current grid — in the same article that says he has never confirmed a girlfriend, which is also out of date. The 6 ft 1 in figure contradicts every other source, including F1Oversteer, which calls him one of the shortest drivers on the 2026 grid at 1.72 m. The centimetre figure of 172 cm matches the consensus, so the 6 ft 1 in figure is a transcription error, not a competing measurement. Readers who find the taller figure are almost always reading a page that copied it from the same wrong source.

The height matters in Formula 1 in a way it does not matter in most sports. A shorter driver is lighter, and weight is lap time: every kilogram in the car costs performance, and the teams design the cars around drivers of a certain size. At 5 ft 8 in, Antonelli is on the shorter side of the grid, and it is a small advantage — one of the many small advantages that add up to a championship at 20. It is not the reason he won. It is one of the reasons the car worked for him the way it did.

Kimi Antonelli Net Worth in 2026: Million

Kimi Antonelli’s net worth is estimated at $18 million in 2026. That is the figure Celebrity Net Worth lists, updated June 8, 2026, with a snapshot dated November 6, 2026 — five days after the title win — and the figure Augustman reported on November 2, 2026, the day after Mexico. The range around it runs from $5 million at the low end (F1Salaries; Bet365 gives $5–11.5 million as of early 2026) to the $18 million anchor, with SportsJone and Hudson Farmhouse giving $5–15 million in between. This article anchors on $18 million because it is the figure the most recent post-championship reporting gives, and it gives the spread because the spread is the honest answer.

The money comes from three streams, and the balance between them explains why the range is so wide. The Mercedes salary is the first: a base reported at $2 million in the early reports, $3.4 million (€3 million) by Gazzetta dello Sport in November 2026, and $5 million by Forbes and Celebrity Net Worth — three different numbers for the same contract, because Mercedes has never confirmed any of them. Bonuses are the second: $7.5 million for finishing seventh in 2025, taking that year’s total to $12.5 million, and a potential bonus of around $12 million for 2026, with Bild reporting that the title lifts his 2026 pay to about $11 million once bonuses are added. Endorsements are the third: Adidas, IWC Schaffhausen and Police Lifestyle, plus the merchandise and the growing fame that comes with being the youngest champion in history.

Income stream What it is Status in 2026
Mercedes salary Base pay, reports disagree ($2M / $3.4M / $5M) Working figure $3.4M (Gazzetta, most specific)
Performance bonuses Paid on championship position and wins $7.5M in 2025; ~$11–12M expected for 2026 title
Endorsements Adidas, IWC Schaffhausen, Police Lifestyle Growing fast after the title win
Career earnings (F1) Two seasons of salary + bonuses $12.5M in 2025; $26.3M career total per F1Salaries

What he does not have yet is the fortune of an established champion. Max Verstappen, the man he beat to the 2026 title, has been earning at the top of the sport for a decade, and Lewis Hamilton, the man whose seat he took, is one of the richest athletes in the world. Antonelli’s $18 million is a fortune built in two seasons, and it is the smallest it will ever be: the next contract, signed as a world champion rather than a rookie, will be worth several times the current one. The $18 million figure is best read as the starting point of a champion’s fortune, not as a finished total.

Salary and Contract: What Mercedes Pays a 20-Year-Old Champion

The salary question is the one readers ask most after the age, and it is the one with the least agreement behind it. The early reports, from RacingNews365 and NBC Miami, put Antonelli’s base at $2 million — a rookie-scale figure, and the same number that circulated when he signed. Gazzetta dello Sport, reported by F1Salaries on November 8, 2026, puts it at $3.4 million (€3 million), and says it is the same figure he has been paid since his 2025 debut — Mercedes kept him on those terms by taking up an extension option in his original contract rather than signing a new deal. Forbes estimated his rookie base at $5 million. Three figures, three sources, one contract. This article uses $3.4 million as its working figure because Gazzetta’s report is the most specific — it names the currency, the amount and the mechanism — and it names the other two, because a reader who searches the question will find all three.

The bonuses are where the money actually is. In 2025, Antonelli earned an estimated $12.5 million in total: a $5 million base on Celebrity Net Worth’s accounting, plus $7.5 million in bonuses for finishing seventh in the drivers’ standings. For 2026, Yardbarker puts his potential bonus at around $12 million, and Bild reports that the title will lift his 2026 pay to about $11 million once bonuses are added — slightly under €10 million in Bild’s report. F1Salaries puts his potential 2026 income at $15.4 million, more than four times his base, and his career earnings so far at $26.3 million. None of these figures has been confirmed by Mercedes, and the team never will confirm them: Formula 1 contracts are confidential, and the numbers in the press are estimates built from paddock reporting.

The contract itself is reported to run through the end of 2027, after Mercedes took up its extension option in October 2025 to keep him alongside George Russell for 2026. One low-quality source says the deal runs through 2028; this article does not use that figure, because the 2027 date comes from the more specific reporting and matches the extension mechanism Gazzetta describes. What is certain is that the next negotiation will look nothing like the last one: Antonelli signed his first Mercedes contract as an 18-year-old rookie, and he will sign his next one as a 21-year-old world champion. Toto Wolff, who runs the team, moved quickly to extend him once — in October 2025, before the title — and he will move faster next time.

Personal Life: Family, the Breakup, and Life Off Track

Antonelli is not married, and he has no children. He was in a relationship with the Czech karting driver Eliška Bábíčková, who made history in 2023 as the first female champion in the OK category of the Italian Karting Championship. The two began dating in October 2023, after meeting on the karting circuit, and she was seen at a couple of Grands Prix in 2025. A week before the start of the 2026 season, she announced on Instagram and TikTok that they had broken up, saying she had ended the relationship because the pair were “no longer aligned in our personal lives and what we wanted for our futures”. She also addressed the cheating allegations that had circulated online, telling her 73,000 followers that it was “super wrong of anyone to assume that” because it was “very misrepresentative of who me and Kimi are as people”. As of November 2026, Antonelli is single, and he keeps his private life out of the paddock conversation.

His family is the other half of the personal story, and it is the half that explains the career. His father Marco raced, and runs Antonelli Motorsport. His mother Veronica raised him in Casalecchio di Reno, and still calls him Andrea — the name on his birth certificate, and the name his family uses. The household was a racing household, and the support was total: the karts at five, the junior programme as a boy, the move through the categories at a speed no other family in the sport could have afforded or managed. The family has stayed out of the spotlight since he reached Formula 1, and the reporting on them is thin — which is how they prefer it.

Off the track, the picture that emerges from the reporting is of a 20-year-old who is quieter than his age suggests. He trains across sports — Muscle & Fitness profiled his brain training for peak speed in November 2026 — and he has spoken about the value of silence and slowing down, a long way from the noise of a championship season. He is not a social-media star in the way some drivers are, and he does not chase the cameras. The Senna helmet, the superstition about the number one, the reluctance to talk about himself: the portrait is of a driver who lets the driving do the talking, and at 20, with nine wins and a world title, the driving has said enough.

How Antonelli Compares: Verstappen, Hamilton, Piastri, Norris

Antonelli’s $18 million fortune sits at the bottom of the championship range, and the comparison shows what kind of career builds what kind of money. Max Verstappen, the four-time champion he beat to the 2026 title, is 29 and has been earning at the top of the sport since 2016 — a decade of championship money against Antonelli’s two seasons. Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time champion whose seat Antonelli took, is 41 and one of the richest athletes in the world, with a fortune built over nineteen seasons, a move to Ferrari, and a brand that extends far beyond racing. Antonelli has been a professional for two years. The gap is time, not talent.

The generational comparison is Oscar Piastri, the McLaren driver who led the championship for much of 2025 and held Antonelli off in Canada that year. Piastri is 25, five years older, and his career is the one Antonelli’s is most often measured against: a junior champion who arrived in Formula 1 fast and won quickly. The difference is the speed of the climb — Piastri won his first title race in his second season; Antonelli won the championship in his. Toto Wolff‘s $2.7 billion fortune, built on a 33%-to-28% stake in the Mercedes team and a decade of dominance, is the other end of the same story: the team principal who bet on a teenager, and the teenager who made the bet pay.

Driver Age (2026) World titles First title age
Kimi Antonelli 20 1 (2026) 20 years, 68 days
Max Verstappen 29 4 24 years
Lewis Hamilton 41 7 23 years
Oscar Piastri 25 0 —
Sebastian Vettel (previous youngest) 39 4 23 years, 134 days

The table is the argument for Antonelli’s future in one place. He won his first title younger than any driver in history — three years younger than Vettel, three years younger than Hamilton, four years younger than Verstappen. He has the most time ahead of him of any champion who ever lived, and the records that depend on time — most wins, most titles, most seasons at the top — are the ones he now has the longest to chase. The fortune will follow the titles. The $18 million is the smallest number on this page, and it is the one that will move fastest.

Kimi Antonelli: Age and Career Timeline

Year Age What happened
2006 0 Born August 25 in Bologna, Italy
2011 5 Starts karting at Galliano Park, Forlì
2019 12–13 Joins the Mercedes Junior Team; WSK Euro Series and Super Master Series titles
2020 13–14 Senior OK European karting champion — youngest ever
2021 14–15 Defends European karting title; single-seater debut in Italian F4 with Prema
2022 15–16 Italian F4 champion (13 wins) and ADAC F4 champion
2023 16–17 Formula Regional Middle East and European champion; meets Eliška Bábíčková (October)
2024 17–18 Formula 2, Prema: sixth, wins at Silverstone and Budapest; FP1 debut at Monza; announced as Hamilton’s replacement (August 31)
2025 18–19 F1 debut, Australia (4th from 16th); Miami sprint pole; first podium, Canada; seventh, 150 points — best rookie score ever; contract extended (October)
2026 19–20 Breakup with Bábíčková (February); first F1 win, China (March 15); turns 20 (August 25); wins at Monaco and Monza; WORLD CHAMPION, Mexico (November 1), aged 20 years 68 days

Twenty years old, a world title, nine Grand Prix wins, and a fortune estimated at $18 million. The timeline is the biography in miniature: a boy from Bologna who started karting at five, won a European title at 14, four championships in two years, Lewis Hamilton’s seat at 18, and the world championship at 20 — younger than any driver who ever lived. The next chapter is the one that decides how big the numbers get: a second title, a third, and the contract that comes with them.

Kimi Antonelli Age — Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Kimi Antonelli in 2026?

Kimi Antonelli is 20 years old in 2026. He was born on August 25, 2006, in Bologna, Italy, and he turns 21 on August 25, 2027. Many pages still list him as 19 because they were written before his birthday on August 25, 2026.

When did Kimi Antonelli win the world championship?

Antonelli won the 2026 Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship on November 1, 2026, by finishing third at the Mexico City Grand Prix. He was 20 years and 68 days old — the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history, beating Sebastian Vettel’s record (23 years, 134 days, 2010) by more than three years.

How tall is Kimi Antonelli?

Kimi Antonelli is 5 feet 8 inches tall (172 cm), according to the consensus across the biography sites that list his measurements. There is no official measurement on record, so the number should be treated as reported rather than verified. One site lists 6 ft 1 in, which contradicts every other source and is treated as a transcription error.

What is Kimi Antonelli’s net worth in 2026?

Kimi Antonelli’s net worth is estimated at $18 million in 2026, according to Celebrity Net Worth, with a snapshot dated November 6, 2026, after the title win. The honest range runs from $5 million to $18 million, with F1Salaries listing $5 million and Bet365 giving $5–11.5 million in early 2026. No official disclosure exists; all figures are third-party estimates.

How much does Kimi Antonelli earn at Mercedes?

Reports disagree on Antonelli’s base salary: $2 million in the early reports, $3.4 million (€3 million) per Gazzetta dello Sport in November 2026, and $5 million per Forbes and Celebrity Net Worth. In 2025 he earned an estimated $12.5 million in total — a $5 million base plus $7.5 million in bonuses for finishing seventh. His 2026 pay is expected to reach about $11–12 million with title bonuses.

Who is Kimi Antonelli’s girlfriend?

Kimi Antonelli is single as of November 2026. He previously dated Czech karting driver Eliška Bábíčková from October 2023 to February 2026; she announced the breakup on social media a week before the 2026 season, saying they were “no longer aligned in our personal lives and what we wanted for our futures”.

How many races has Kimi Antonelli won?

As of the 2026 São Paulo Grand Prix, Antonelli has won 9 Grands Prix, with 7 pole positions, 10 fastest laps and 19 podiums from 43 starts. His first win came at the Chinese Grand Prix on March 15, 2026, making him the second-youngest winner in Formula 1 history.

Who did Kimi Antonelli replace at Mercedes?

Antonelli replaced seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes for the 2025 season, after Hamilton left for Ferrari. Mercedes announced the decision on August 31, 2024, the morning after Antonelli’s FP1 debut at Monza, where he had crashed at the Parabolica. He was 18 at the time, and the first rookie to drive for Mercedes since the 1950s.

Sources & Reporting

This article was reported on November 10, 2026, from live sources checked the same day. The biography facts — birth date, family, karting career, junior championships, Formula 2 season and Formula 1 career — are sourced to Wikipedia’s Kimi Antonelli entry (last entry: 2026 São Paulo Grand Prix), FirstCorner’s November 6, 2026 profile, F1LiveUpdates’ November 5, 2026 career story, the Mercedes-AMG F1 Team driver page, FormulaOneHistory and RacingNews365. The November 1, 2026 title win is sourced to Al Jazeera (November 2, 2026), Goodwood (November 6, 2026), Motor Sport Magazine (November 4 and 6, 2026) and Reuters (November 4, 2026). The net-worth anchor of $18 million is sourced to Celebrity Net Worth (updated June 8, 2026; snapshot November 6, 2026) and Augustman (November 2, 2026); the $5–18 million range is sourced to F1Salaries ($5 million low, updated November 8, 2026), Bet365 ($5–11.5 million, early 2026), SportsJone ($5–15 million) and Hudson Farmhouse ($5–15 million). The salary disagreement is sourced to RacingNews365 and NBC Miami ($2 million), Gazzetta dello Sport via F1Salaries ($3.4 million), and Forbes and Celebrity Net Worth ($5 million); the 2025 bonus breakdown is sourced to Celebrity Net Worth and Augustman, and the 2026 bonus figures to Yardbarker and Bild. The height of 5 ft 8 in (172 cm) is sourced to Hudson Farmhouse, Biography Wallah, SportsJone, CelebsWiki, Daily Odyssey and LiveMint; the 6 ft 1 in outlier is sourced to HealthyCeleb (October 31, 2026). The breakup with Eliška Bábíčková is sourced to F1Oversteer, Hudson Farmhouse and LiveMint, with her own words as reported by F1Oversteer. The peer figures are sourced to Guide Net Worth’s own profiles of Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Oscar Piastri and Toto Wolff. Where sources disagreed — on the net-worth range, the salary, the height and the contract length — this article gives the range and names the outlet behind each number rather than picking one. Figures that no outlet has confirmed are labeled as reported or estimated. Corrections: see our corrections policy on the About Us page; if a figure in this article changes, it will be updated with a dated note.

About the author: Nathan Cole covers celebrity wealth, Formula 1, and the business of fame for Guide Net Worth. He reports net-worth figures only from named outlets, gives ranges where sources disagree, and updates every profile when new reporting lands.

References & Sources

This article has been fact-checked and verified against multiple public sources, financial disclosures, SEC filings, Forbes reports, Celebrity Net Worth databases, and official records. All net worth estimates are based on publicly available information and financial analysis.

Last Updated: November 10, 2026
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