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lando congratulating kimi for the 100th time today, his heart is so pure 🤍 "kimi, world champion. very, very happy for ya! you've had an unbelievable season. you made everyone else look silly, and that's a compliment. so very, very happy for you mate. no one more on the grid that i want to hand the number one over to than you. incredible to watch the whole season and it's been a pleasure to witness history. hopefully, next year I can give him a better challenge than we were able to this season"

the way lando celebrated kimi today says everything about the kind of person he is.

"how do you feel about passing over the baton to kimi and what he's managed to achieve this year? did he have it easier, a lot harder than you did?" lando: "i don't really care. he's winning a world championship and he's going to win the world championship. i don't think anyone really cares how you do it, honestly. they shouldn't. he's done an incredible job and i would say he's done it in a pretty incredible way. people are saying he hasn't had any tough competition this year, but that proves exactly the point that he's done such an incredible job. he's got a very, very talented teammate that he's beaten through the whole season. no, i have nothing but respect for kimi and he's a very, very nice guy. we get along very well and i'm more than happy to pass the number one over to him. he deserves it. he's done an incredible job, especially in second year in formula one, to be the youngest world champion, all of these things that he's going to achieve. that's pretty insane. so i'm more than happy. i enjoy seeing other people have that kind of success so it's nice to see. i know i've had a pretty horrible defensive title, but there's not much more i could have done. i feel like i've driven a very, very good season. we just haven't had the car, and that's nothing that's really in my control. so from my side, i feel like i've done my very best, and the races where i could fight against him, i feel like we've had good fights, and it's been a good season from that perspective, but more than happy to pass the number one over to him because he deserves it easily more than anyone"