Long ago, when Formula 1's Lewis Hamilton was still with Mercedes-AMG F1, he shut off his phone and was unreachable for a weekend. A thing he's known to do from time to time. Now, that might not be cause for concern for most, but his boss was Toto Wolff, the team's principal, and one of Lewis' closest friends. It was also during the season, and that's sort of a no-no.
It turned out that Lewis had intentionally shut his phone off, as he was doing something he knew Toto wouldn't have liked, i.e., he was out racing motorcycles with Valentino Rossi. Worse than that, he had crashed said motorcycle, and didn't want to tell Toto. The manager eventually found out, as Toto got a hold of Lewis' engineer, who was with him, but it became the stuff of legend, and a story the boss relayed to Dax Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast a few months ago.
Why am I telling you this old story? Because it seems that Mercedes-AMG F1's newest phenom, Kimi Antonelli, may have a similarly rebellious streak, and one in the same vein as Hamilton, as the young driver took the impromptu holiday break between racing to go hang out with Valentino and the superstar's off-road ranch in Italy.
