Bologna tower adds a champion's welcome to Antonelli's landing clearance

The Italian Formula 1 champion's return home gets a personal greeting over the airport radio.

Channel: RaiNews · ItalyStory of November 10, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? One of RaiNews's most watched videos since yesterday, with 127,529 views.

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Landing clearance came in English. The congratulations followed in Italian.

As Kimi Antonelli returned to Bologna, an air traffic controller added a greeting on behalf of ENAV staff, welcoming him as Formula 1's new world champion and signing off with "Grande Kimi", an enthusiastic salute to the driver.

RaiNews, the news service of Italy's public broadcaster RAI, shows a private jet landing at night before cutting inside the control tower. A controller sits at his microphone, with a colleague behind him, as radio messages pass between the tower and the aircraft. The routine instructions give the runway and wind information; then comes the personal message.

Antonelli won the 2026 drivers' championship with Mercedes, becoming the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history. The greeting brings that international achievement back to the Italian city where he was born, delivered not from a podium but from an airport workstation.

ENAV provides Italy's civil air navigation services. Its staff's brief tribute has drawn about 128,000 views since yesterday.

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The numbers

The control-tower welcome was Italy's most-watched new news Short since yesterday among the leading news channels featured here.

subscribers

166,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

203,592,098

views per day

941,378

typical day: 641,287

the video

views

127,529

likes

1,670

comments

52

days online

1

As of November 10, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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