A year ago, during his rookie Formula One campaign, Kimi Antonelli, the 19-year-old Italian driving prodigy tapped to replace seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton in the Mercedes lineup, spent the days after his first podium finish completing his final high school exams. (He passed.) This season, schoolwork in the rearview mirror, Antonelli can’t stop winning and setting new records. He finished first in five consecutive races—in China and Japan in March, Miami and Canada in May, and Monaco in June. Antonelli is the youngest driver to ever lead the F1 championship standings, and he joins two legends of the sport, Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna, as the only drivers to achieve their first three pole positions consecutively. Unlike Schumacher and Senna, Antonelli won all those races too.