The Andrea Kimi Antonelli steamroller rolled on in Monaco, where he secured his fifth consecutive grand prix victory. He had already set a record by winning the first four grands prix in a row; this win extended that remarkable streak.
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This triumph was special for several reasons. Most obviously it was the Monaco Grand Prix, one of the oldest and most iconic races on the calendar.
It was also Antonelli’s first true “grand slam”: he took pole position, set the fastest lap, led every lap and won the race.
He becomes the 28th driver to record a grand slam and the youngest by a substantial margin. At 19 years and 286 days he is nearly four years younger than Max Verstappen was when he achieved his first grand slam at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix. The five youngest to record their first grand slam are listed below:
| Driver | First grand slam | Age at time |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Kimi Antonelli | 2026 Monaco Grand Prix | 19 years, 286 days |
| Max Verstappen | 2021 Austrian Grand Prix | 23y, 277d |
| Sebastian Vettel | 2011 Indian Grand Prix | 24y, 119d |
| Oscar Piastri | 2025 Dutch Grand Prix | 24y, 147d |
| Charles Leclerc | 2022 Australian Grand Prix | 24y, 176d |
Joining Antonelli on the podium was Lewis Hamilton, who himself recorded his first grand slam at the 2014 Malaysian Grand Prix nearly a decade earlier.
A lengthy red-flag stoppage made this the longest grand prix so far this season: Antonelli’s winning time was 2hr 23’31.243. That made it the longest Monaco Grand Prix since 1972, when Jean-Pierre Beltoise took BRM’s final victory on a soaked circuit.
Antonelli’s win also extended Mercedes’ run of scoring points to 22 consecutive rounds, covering a full year. Yet for the second race in a row, his team mate left without points.
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George Russell ended his longest streak of consecutive points finishes by failing to score in back-to-back rounds for the first time as a Mercedes driver. The last time he recorded zero points in consecutive races was late in 2021 during his final spell with Williams.
One further twist: if Antonelli wins again next weekend he will match Russell’s career total of six grand prix victories.
Hamilton’s second place again cast doubt on suggestions he should consider retirement, answering critics with a strong performance for Ferrari. He is now second in the championship for the first time since the controversial 2021 title fight.
Hamilton’s future team mate will be Charles Leclerc, who confirmed his new contract ahead of his home race. Leclerc, however, could not celebrate on the track: he crashed out and recorded his first non-score of the season.
Leclerc has had mixed fortunes at Monaco in recent years — a difficult run until his breakthrough win in 2024 followed by a solid result last year — and this race felt like a return to the frustrating early Monte-Carlo weekends that plagued him.
Unless Alpine’s Right of Review succeeds, Isack Hadjar secured the second podium of his career for Red Bull. It marked the first time in over two years that a Red Bull driver other than Verstappen stood on the podium; Sergio Perez was the last to do so, in Shanghai.
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Liam Lawson matched his best finish with fifth place, while team mate Arvid Lindblad recorded the best result of his six-race career in sixth. Racing Bulls achieved their highest single-race points haul since the team’s current identity and their best weekend under any name since the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, when Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly finished fourth and fifth.
Pierre Gasly will be hoping Alpine’s request for a review succeeds so he can be reinstated to the podium and claim what would be the sixth top-three finish of his career.
Sergio Perez had looked set to take the final point and secure Cadillac’s first F1 point, but three separate penalties on Sunday — effectively for positioning infringements — dropped him out of contention.
That promoted the final point to the ever-resilient Fernando Alonso, giving Aston Martin their first point of the year. After a difficult start to the season the team will welcome any return to scoring form.
For Lando Norris, this was his first race of the year without points, though it was his third retirement of the season due to technical trouble (he had scored in sprint events at the other two). His hopes of defending the title look increasingly slim as he trails Antonelli by nearly 100 points.
Finally, Alexander Albon recorded his best result of the season with eighth place. That result ties him with Nigel Mansell for the most starts for Williams at 95; Albon is likely to surpass that mark this weekend.
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