#Antonelli cruises to fifth-consecutive victory in chaotic #MonacoGP. #F1

Antonelli Monaco GP Victory – Andrea Kimi Antonelli continued his solid run scoring his fifth-consecutive victory of the season and his first at a dramatic Monaco GP ahead of Ferrari’s Sir Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar who completed the top three. There were seven retirements including reigning world champion Lando Norris, four-time world champion Max Verstappen and home favourite Charles Leclerc.

 

 

Antonelli has extended his World Driver’s Championship lead to 66 points over Hamilton who jumps to second as the sport heads straight to Barcelona next weekend for the Formula 1 MSC Cruises Gran Premio De Espana 2026.

 

The Bologna-born native becomes the youngest-ever Monaco Grand Prix winner and the first Italian since Jarno Trulli in 2004.

 

Audi’s Gabriel Bortoleto had to start in the pit-lane after stalling on the sighting laps.

 

When the 78-lap Monaco GP began, pole-sitter Antonelli got a good start as Verstappen suffered an anti-stall on the grid.

 

Leclerc was up into third place behind Hamilton whilst Verstappen got going after his brief halt on the grid.

 

At the beginning of the second tour, Antonelli held a 1.2 second lead over Hamilton with Leclerc third, Hadjar fourth, Russell fifth, Piastri sixth, Gasly seventh, Norris eighth, Lawson ninth as Albon rounded out the top ten.

 

Verstappen was the first retiree of the Grand Prix as Haas’s Oliver Bearman went into the pits for a new front wing, Audi’s Bortoleto also stopped – medium rubber on, softs off.

 

Russell was noted for being out of his start box.

 

On the fifth tour – Race leader Antonelli increased his lead to 3.7 seconds over Hamilton with Leclerc holding third, Hadjar fourth, Russell fifth, Piastri sixth, Gasly seventh, Norris eighth, Lawson ninth whilst Albon completed the top ten runners.

 

There was no further investigation for Russell by the stewards.

 

Lap six – Cadillac’s Sergio Perez was under investigate for a false start. Antonelli up-front now has a 4 second lead over Hamilton, who in turn is 2 seconds clear of Leclerc.

 

Norris was the man on the move – he had overtake mode to use against Alpine’s Pierre Gasly, as he was within a second of the Frenchman.

 

The eighth tour – The majority who started on the C4 mediums remained on that tyre, Aston Martin pairing Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll had both pitted for some softs, Bortoleto and Bearman have been in for C3 hards and Cadillac’s Valtteri Bottas had swapped from softs to mediums.

 

Lap nine – Antonelli was now 5.2 seconds clear of Hamilton as he looked to extend his lead – if the positions remained the same, he would be 58 points clear of his team-mate Russell.

 

Further back, Perez was hit with a drive through penalty for his false start.

 

The 12^th tour – Replays showed Perez actually went into Bortoleto’s grid slot at the beginning. That would be why his penalty was a big one. The Mexican had served it and was down in 18^th.

 

Lap 13 – Antonelli was already lapping cars – and that was why he had lost some time to Hamilton who was chasing the Mercedes behind, but the Ferrari man was picking up the traffic himself.

 

The 14^th lap – Audi’s Nico Hulkenberg was the next to stop, plenty of drivers were happy to go long on the harder tyre at this stage of proceedings. That was a tidy 2.6 second stop by Audi. The German dropped to 14th, in-front of Haas’s Esteban Ocon who had also stopped.

 

No one in the top 13 had pitted yet at this stage.

 

Lap 15 – This was not just traffic, Antonelli had lost a little more time as Hamilton started to feel his quarry was not out of sight. A 5.2 second lead was down to 3.5 seconds. Was the championship leader struggling with tyres, with overheating? That was the question – the Aston Martin pairing were up next for Antonelli to lap.

 

Verstappen reported after his retirement: “The Formation Lap was not going very well. The pre-start was terrible, no consistency and then the engine dropped dead. I got a little bit of power back after the first corner, but it sounded terrible and we just brought it back.”

 

The 16^th tour – Norris had been the man on the attack in the top 10, challenging Gasly in-front. But the reigning world champion had dropped back to cool his tyres – as Hamilton ahead radioed to say the tyres were not as good as expected.

 

Lap 17 – Antonelli was leading from pole but he had lost two seconds to Hamilton recently. And with some front left graining going on, the next question was how long would everyone stay out for before needing new tyres?

 

Bottas was the second retiree of the race on lap 18 after being told to come in and cool his MAC01 entry.

 

Lap 20 – Antonelli’s lead was up to five seconds over Hamilton with Leclerc a further 6.2 seconds behind in third, Hadjar fourth, Russell fifth, Piastri sixth, Gasly seventh, Norris eighth, Lawson ninth as Albon rounded out the top ten.

 

Fourth-placed Hadjar was under pressure from Russell’s Silver Arrow, as he radioed to complain about his shifts. The Red Bull driver had also complained of late about his tyres – his fronts did not look good.

 

The 21^st tour – “The power is down,” cried Hadjar. The Frenchman also could not use first gear at this stage, and Russell was just half-a-second back. But those two were nearly 26 seconds off the lead.

 

Hadjar reported: “Something’s about to explode!”

 

Lap 22 – A puff of smoke rose, it was a lock up rather than a problem, but Hadjar still remained ahead of Russell through the Nouvelle Chicane. This was costing Russell big time in the battle for fourth place.

 

The 23^rd tour – Cadillac confirmed it was the brakes for Bottas, as he retired for the first time since the Australian Grand Prix.

 

Up-front, Antonelli had started to stretch his legs again – 6.6 seconds over second-placed Hamilton.

 

And Hadjar had been told there was “no fix.”

 

The 24^th lap – Up-front, Antonelli lead by over seven seconds to Hamilton. Leclerc was 6.5 seconds behind his Ferrari team-mate in third, and then there was a big gap to Hadjar who was still defending hard from Russell.

 

Lap 25 – Eighth-placed Norris had closed up behind Gasly again and there was just a tenth or two between those rivals in the battle for seventh place. All of which was letting Piastri have a bit of a free race ahead of them, and the Australian was starting to catch up to the back of the Hadjar – Russell fight.

 

The 26^th tour – Fifth-placed Russell had half a look out of the Nouvelle chicane, but nothing doing for the Mercedes driver with the first pit-stop window expected around laps 29-35.

 

The 27^th lap – Antonelli’s lead increased to 10.7 seconds over Hamilton. Antonelli was flying in Monaco and looked on course to extend his advantage in the standings over his team-mate Russell.

 

Lap 28 – Hadjar cut the chicane and maintained fourth place as Russell explained: “That is a lasting advantage, if he can’t keep it on the track he has to give the position up.”

 

Hamilton was the first front-runner to pit from second on lap 29 for a set of C3 white-marked harder tyres and emerged in third place behind team-mate Leclerc.

 

The 30^th tour – Antonelli and Mercedes did not react to Hamilton’s stop, the Italian did have traffic to negotiate to get past, so the Italian would lose some more time.

 

Lap 31 – Bearman was called in to retire his VF-26 entry. After he hit team-mate Ocon in the early stages.

 

The 32^nd tour – Russell opted for the undercut on Hadjar and pitted for his fresh set of C3 hards and crucially came out ahead of Lawson and with plenty of clean air.

 

Up-front Antonelli lead Leclerc by 16 seconds – neither had pitted. Hamilton in P3 had pitted.

 

Hadjar reacted to Mercedes on lap 33 for his stop for the harder compounds and Russell jumped the Frenchman to move up into seventh place and the net fourth.

 

On lap 34 – Hamilton was hit with a five-second penalty for speeding in the pitlane as Norris was reporting no power.

 

The 35^th tour – Antonelli remained out, so did Leclerc. Hamilton was leading from Piastri, the Australian also had not pitted. Further back, Norris was in all sorts of trouble with his engine, he was dropping back rapidly.

 

Leclerc stopped for his fresh set of hards on lap 36 and came back behind team-mate Hamilton in third place.

 

Russell was noted for speeding in the pit-lane.

 

Race leader Antonelli made is pit-stop on lap 38 and emerged comfortably clear from Hamilton and a solid 2.3 second stop.

 

Piastri was the highest runner to have not pitted yet, with the McLaren driver in fourth place as Mercedes’ Russell was also slapped with a five-second-penalty for speeding in the pit-lane.

 

The 39^th lap – Antonelli’s lead was sitting at 12.5 seconds with the times from the pit-stop period settled down. His team-mate was hit with the five-second-timed penalty – Russell was seventh and 12 seconds clear of Hadjar.

 

Norris’s power-unit was back up and running, and he had closed up behind Gasly again as the fight intensified.

 

Lap 40 – Both McLaren drivers have not pitted yet. Nor had Gasly in fifth at this stage of proceedings.

 

Albon, Lawson, Lindblad and Sainz were the others yet to come in and switch their tyres.

 

The 41^st tour – Antonelli out-front had some free air, and the Italian was flying, lapping nearly a second faster than second-placed Hamilton. The Mercedes drivers’ lead was 15 seconds and he could effectively cruise.

 

Colapinto had been noted for speeding in the pit-lane.

 

Lap 42 – The situation of the midfield runners – Gasly, Lawson and Albon were those on for points, with Sainz 17 seconds off his team-mate in 11^th and thus at the moment, out of the battle for points.

 

The 43^rd lap – As Colapinto was the latest to get a five-second-time penalty for speeding in the pit-lane, this one was all about Antonelli. He led by almost 18 seconds over Hamilton, who had a five-second penalty of his own.

 

Leclerc was 10.4 seconds back on his team-mate, so the home favourite needed to get a push on if he wants to grab second place.

 

The 44^th tour – Norris was briefly told to hold up Russell, to try and assist Piastri’s chances. And Russell had been noted for crossing the line at the pit-lane exit.

 

On lap 45 – Norris was the fourth retiree of the Grand Prix due to his power-unit issue – Out-front, Antonelli was 1.4 seconds faster than Hamilton on that last tour. He was not a million miles away from lapping his team-mate.

 

Lap 46 – Russell was up to sixth following Norris’s retirement, and the Mercedes driver is just 3.4s behind Gasly who was yet to pit.

 

The 47^th tour – Gasly did finally pit and emerged in seventh place behind Hadjar. That also released Russell to chase after Piastri.

 

Further back, Williams had swapped Albon and Sainz. Albon stopped, Sainz had not. So, it seemed like Williams were using Albon to back the pack up to give Sainz some time to pit himself.

 

Lap 48 – The Williams situation – The Grove-based-outfit technically had two cars in the points – but Sainz was yet to pit. So, Albon was backing everyone up, but the Thai-Briton driver locked up coming into the Nouvelle chicane. This was going to be tricky for the Thai driver to manage, to build his team-mate a pit-stop worth of time.

 

The 49^th tour – McLaren told Piastri to box – he was one of three cars yet to pit.

 

Further back, Lindblad overtook Albon. That was not too bad as Lindblad had yet to pit. Albon was already questioning his team’s tactics.

 

Lap 50 – Piastri did pit, hard tyres went on his McLaren, and the Australian had return to sixth place behind Hadjar but in-front of Gasly. Further back, Lawson was eighth, Sainz ninth and Lindblad tenth.

 

Sainz was fighting Hulkenberg for the final-points-place.

 

Albon was noted for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

 

The 51^st lap – Race leader Antonelli’s pace saw the championship leader almost a full pit-stop ahead of Hamilton. The Mercedes driver was cruising to the win, but behind it was all to play for.

 

Gasly was in trouble, he was under investigation for speeding in the pit-lane.

 

Lap 52 – Leclerc had closed up to Hamilton and he was just 4.7 seconds back on his team-mate. With Hamilton carrying that five-second-penalty, Leclerc held a net second place at this stage.

 

Gasly was the latest to be handed a five-second-penalty for pit-lane speeding – Hamilton, Russell and Colapinto the others to have received the same penalty.

 

The 53^rd tour – Antonelli was running behind his team-mate Russell, who was going to see blue flags very soon.

 

Lap 54 – Stroll had been hit with a five-second-penalty for track limits, the Canadian was running in 16^th place.

 

Further ahead, Sainz pitted for Williams. The Spaniard came back out in-front of Hulkenberg, as Piastri was investigated for speeding in the pit-lane.

 

The 55^th tour – Antonelli lead from Hamilton and Leclerc. Russell was fourth, in-front of Hadjar and Piastri. Then followed Gasly and Lawson.

 

Lindblad was in ninth place but had yet to pit. Sainz was 10^th in the order, Albon 11^th and Hulkenberg is 12^th.

 

The 56^th lap – Piastri was the next to be pinged for speeding in the pit-lane – five seconds for the Australian, but he was 12 seconds clear of Gasly.

 

But there is drama up-front, as Antonelli reported something weird from the engine up the hill.

 

Lap 57 – Russell had one penalty coming, but there was no further investigation for crossing the pit-lane-exit.

 

Antonelli meanwhile was told that he “doesn’t need” fastest laps. The team just wanted him to bring the car home in one piece.

 

The 58^th tour – Antonelli had lapped his team-mate Russell – The Italian was 28.4 seconds clear of Hamilton in what had been a spectacular performance.

 

Hamilton was just 3.1 seconds in-front of Leclerc, so those two will switch places at the end at this rate thanks to the former’s penalty.

 

And Williams had swapped their drivers.

 

The 59^th lap – Williams had swapped back and Albon was back in tenth behind Lindblad, who was yet to stop.

 

Lap 60 – The safety car was brought out after Stroll was stuck in the barriers at Antony Noghes.

 

The 61^st tour – Hamilton was told to pit, and Leclerc pitted too given Hamilton had to serve his penalty.

 

Antonelli remained out, so did Russell. Hamilton pitted, so did Leclerc. Piastri came and so lost his position to Gasly.

 

And everyone was having to come through the pit-lane – so as he did so, Antonelli pitted next time around but it was a slow stop.

 

Lap 62 – Antonelli lost a couple of seconds, but he remained in the lead. Hamilton was second on merit now in-front of Leclerc, Hadjar had jumped Russell by not stopping, and Gasly had jumped Piastri the same way.

 

Replays showed Stroll go slightly wide, locked up on the marbles and ran straight into the barriers.

 

Lap 63 – Russell did not serve his penalty on his pit-stop – when he was meant to the next time he entered the pits. The Briton was under investigation by the stewards.

 

The 64^th tour – Stroll’s AMR26 entry had been cleared away, and the lapped cars were allowed to overtake.

 

When the safety car came in on lap 66 and the race returned to green running – Race leader Antonelli got away from Hamilton as behind them home favourite Leclerc went straight into the wall at La Rascasse bringing out a second safety car.

 

Replays showed Leclerc crash in the same place as Stroll. The Monegasque driver had confirmed he was okay. The Ferrari driver hit some marbles, locked up and went straight on.

 

The 67^th lap – The situation was Antonelli leading from Hamilton and Hadjar. Russell was holding fourth in-front of Gasly – who had just been pinged again for speeding in the pit-lane. Piastri was sixth ahead of Lawson, Lindblad, Albon and Sainz.

 

Leclerc was back in the Ferrari garage and he looked very furious.

 

Russell was noted for failing to serve the time penalty at his pit-stop.

 

The red flags were brought out on lap 68 as Leclerc’s SF-26 was cleared for a potential issue with the surface of the track and to clear the marbles.

 

The situation under the red flag suspension – Antonelli leads the Monaco Grand Prix from Hamilton and Hadjar.

 

Russell was holding fourth and was yet to serve his five-second time penalty earned for speeding in the pit-lane and was being investigated for not serving that penalty when he pitted under the first Safety Car deployment.

 

Gasly in fifth place had two separate five-second time penalties to serve.

 

Piastri in sixth place was there on merit, as was Lawson in seventh place.

 

Lindblad in eighth will inherit some places as he’ll get a completely free stop for his new tyres.

 

Albon and Sainz completed the top 10.

 

The FIA stated that the “Red flag is for inspection of track break-up at Turn 19,” Where all the marbles were that caught out Stroll and Leclerc.

 

There were track cleaners out there sweeping away the marbles.

 

Hadjar was under investigation for a safety car infringement.

 

Russell was hit with a drive through penalty for failing to serve his five-second-timed penalty correctly.

 

Hamilton was also under investigation for a safety car infringement for leaving more than ten car lengths behind.

 

Leclerc stated after his crash: “I don’t have many words – I look like an idiot. We do have the solution [to the brake issue] and I will go into Lewis’ direction from the next race onwards to solve the issues I deal with. I just need consistency [with braking] and yeah, that’s it.”

 

The FIA stated the: “Field will reform in correct order under Safety Car for one or two laps followed by a standing start. Lapped cars to be released first.”

 

So, there was some swapping going on in the pit-lane.

 

Whilst the lapped cars exited the pit lane to try and get themselves back in the correct order, McLaren radioed Piastri to warn the Australian that the stewards today were taking a dim view of anyone leaving more than 10 car lengths behind the Safety Car.

 

There was no decision on Hamilton and Hadjar yet.

 

There was no further investigation for Hamilton’s safety car infringement as Hadjar was complaining about a loss of power.

 

When the race resumed with a standing start – pole-sitter Antonelli covered Hamilton comfortably into turn one as Russell held the pack behind.

 

At the hairpin Audi’s Hulkenberg clipped Sainz as the latter hit the barrier and retired peeling off at Portier.

 

On the 72^nd tour – Antonelli held a 1.4 second gap over Hamilton with Russell third and to serve his penalty, Gasly fourth, Hadjar fifth, Piastri sixth, Lawson seventh, Lindblad eighth, Albon ninth as Hulkenberg rounding out the top ten.

 

Russell came into serve his penalty on lap 73 and came out in 14^th place behind Bortoleto.

 

Hadjar was under investigation for a red flag infringement, but his safety car infringement was deemed no further investigation.

 

Replays showed Colapinto clipped Sainz with the former under investigation for the collision.

 

The 74^th lap – Gasly was third. But he was only 3.3 seconds clear of Hadjar with those two five-second penalties to come. So, was Hadjar on for a first Red Bull podium today was the question.

 

Lap 75 – Antonelli was 2.2 seconds clear of Hamilton and looked set to record a fifth consecutive win.

 

Further back, Hadjar was still complaining about no power aboard his Ford-RBPT-powered RB22 entry.

 

The 76^th tour – Antonelli had absorbed all the pressure, and he was on for a well-earned victory. He was leading Hamilton by 2.9 seconds.

 

Hadjar was clinging to the back of Gasly’s Alpine as best he can, and could be in line for a famous podium, but he had that red flag infringement currently under investigation.

 

Perez was also in a spot of bother for a starting infringement – his second of the day.

 

Antonelli crossed the line to clinch his fifth consecutive victory and his maiden Formula 1 victory on the streets of Monaco by 6.2 seconds over Hamilton as Gasly crossed the line third but dropped to seventh after his two five-second-timed-penalties applied to his race time promoting Hadjar (also under investigation for his red flag infringement).

 

Piastri came home fourth and in-front of RB’s Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad who were fifth and sixth respectively.

 

The aforementioned Gasly took seventh and in-front of Williams’ Albon who placed eighth and Haas’s Ocon who ended the Monaco GP ninth.

 

Perez rounded out the final points’ place in tenth scoring Cadillac’s first ever point in the sport following Hulkenberg’s 10-second-penalty for causing a collision with Sainz.

 

However – Perez is currently under investigation for his second race start infringement and could potentially promote Aston Martin’s Alonso into the points.

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2026 Monaco GP – The Top Three

 

 

2026 Monaco GP Winner – Andrea Kimi Antonelli, #12, Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 Team, F1 W17 – (25 Points):

“Incredible weekend, incredible race. We had such incredible pace; it was all coming so natural. The car was incredible and gave me confidence to push. It is still a long season, and we need to keep pushing and keep raising the bar, and the goal is to keep performing like this. This is a really good moment. To be fair I wasn’t super keen on restarting, but I gathered my emotions, my thoughts and just tried to refocus on restarting. And once I got away and made it to P1 in the first corner, from that moment on I just enjoyed the last few laps.”

 

2^nd Place – Sir Lewis Hamilton, #44, Scuderia Ferrari, SF-26 – +6.271s – (18 Points):

“I have to start by congratulation Kimi and my old Mercedes team; Kimi is delivering weekend in weekend out. We have been progressing over the past few months; we can’t keep up with them yet. But to get another second place in Monaco under the hardest conditions, I’ll definitely take it. The car is good, but we need more downforce ultimately and with the different scenarios we had out there, holding onto the tyres was tough. Massively challenging, but grateful to the team.”

 

3^rd Place – Isack Hadjar, #6, Oracle Red Bull Racing, Ford-RBPT, RB22 – +23.394s – (15 Points):

“Within the first 10-15 laps I started having massive driveability issues, if there is one track you don’t want that it is here. It was massively challenging, even at the end I was lacking power at the restart. At the restart I lost two places, I knew the car ahead had a penalty, but I never had to send it like I did to stay with Pierre.”

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Round seven of the 2026 FIA Formula One World Championship returns to the Circuit De Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain for the Formula 1 MSC Cruises Gran Premio De Barcelona-Catalunya 2026 from Friday June 12-Sunday June 14.