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MOTOR:Five-in-a-row for Antonelli in supreme Monaco triumph

Formula One's boy wonder Kimi ‌Antonelli has won his fifth-straight race -- and the biggest of them all -- becoming the youngest ever Monaco Grand Prix champion with a superlative drive.

As the 19-year-old left his rivals stunned again with his precocious brilliance, Australian Oscar Piastri was left pondering how he nearly picked up the most unlikely of podium places, eventually settling for fourth after the most chaotic of races.

Like the rest of the field, though, Piastri, even picking up three places after starting seventh, had been just a bit player as not even a late safety car deployment and then a red flag suspension to inspect ​a crumbling surface at the final corner of the track could halt the young Mercedes driver.

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