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Formula One leader Antonelli to take grid drop at Monza home race

ZANDVOORT, Netherlands, Aug 23 : Formula One championship leader Kimi Antonelli will take a grid penalty of at least 10 places and could start at the back for his home Italian Grand Prix next month due to an engine change, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said.Antonelli, who has a 59-point lead over teammate George Russell and Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, finished second in Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix behind McLaren's reigning champion Lando Norris.Monza, the next race, will be his first home race of the season and comes after his 20th birthday next week.The grid drop for exceeding the season's allocation of parts will depend on how many power unit components Antonelli replaces but Wolff indicated that the change would be significant and necessary. "With Kimi we are taking the full thing," Wolff t
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