The Andrea Kimi Antonelli steamroller continued in Monaco the place he scored his fifth consecutive grand prix victory. Taking his first 4 grands prix on the bounce was already a file.
This one was extra particular for just a few causes. First, clearly, as a result of it was the Monaco Grand Prix, one of many oldest and undoubtedly probably the most well-known of races.
Nevertheless this was additionally Antonelli’s first ‘grand slam’: He gained from pole place, setting quickest lap and main each lap of the best way.
He’s the twenty eighth driver to attain this and the youngest to take action by a large margin. At 19 years and 286 days he’s nearly 4 years youthful than Max Verstappen was when he scored his first grand slam on the Austrian Grand Prix in 2021. Listed here are the 5 youngest:
Antonelli was joined on the rostrum by Lewis Hamilton, who was practically a decade older when he scored his first grand slam on the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2014.
The prolonged pink flag interruption made this the longest grand prix of the 12 months to date: Antonelli gained in 2hr 23’31.243. That made it the longest Monaco Grand Prix since 1972, when Jean-Pierre Beltoise scored his solely win and BRM’s final on a soaking moist day.
Victory for Antonelli means Mercedes have now scored factors in all the final 22 rounds, overlaying a full calendar 12 months. However for the second race in a row his staff mate failed to attain.
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George Russell ended his longest run of consecutive factors finishes by failing to attain in back-to-back rounds for the primary time as a Mercedes driver. The final time he took no factors for not less than two consecutive rounds was over his remaining seven appearances for Williams on the finish of 2021.
One other sobering thought for Russell is that this: If Antonelli wins once more this weekend, he’ll draw stage with Russell’s tally of six profession grand prix wins.
Hamilton once more gave the mislead our pre-Canadian Grand Prix ballot asking whether or not it was time for him to contemplate retirement by repeating his second place end for Ferrari. He’s now second within the championship for the primary time since he was controversially pipped to the 2021 title.
Nevertheless lengthy Hamilton continues racing for, if he stays at Ferrari he is aware of his staff mate might be Charles Leclerc, who confirmed his newest contract to drive for the staff forward of his house race. He didn’t get a end result to have a good time it with, nevertheless, crashing out and registering his first no-score of the season.
Leclerc had a dismal run of luck at house (together with in Formulation 2) earlier than his breakthrough win in 2024. He completed second final 12 months, however this seemed like a repeat of his luckless early races round Monte-Carlo.
Until Alpine succeed on each counts with their Proper of Overview request tomorrow, Isack Hadjar claimed the second podium end of his profession for Pink Bull. It’s the first time in over two years a Pink Bull not pushed by Verstappen has reached the rostrum. Sergio Perez was the final driver to take action, in Shanghai.
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Liam Lawson equalled his greatest end with fifth place whereas staff mate Arvid Lindblad adopted him house to register the most effective end of his six-round profession with sixth place. Racing Bulls due to this fact took their highest race weekend rating underneath their present id and their greatest underneath any title because the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the place Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly completed fourth and fifth respectively.
Gasly, nevertheless, might be hoping Alpine’s request for a evaluate does succeed and he can declare what could be the sixth podium end of his profession.
Perez ought to have taken the ultimate level and given Cadillac their first in F1. Nevertheless he picked up three penalties through the course of Sunday, all of which had been primarily for dangerous parking.
That handed the ultimate level of the day to the indefatigable Fernando Alonso, and the primary of the 12 months to Aston Martin. The staff should have feared they might finish the 12 months point-less after beginning it as badly as they did.
Though this was the primary weekend Lando Norris failed to attain, it was the third time he has retired from a grand prix this 12 months as a result of technical issues (he took factors in dash races on the different two rounds). His hopes of defending his world championship now look extraordinarily forlorn as he’s nearly 100 factors behind Antonelli already.
Lastly, Alexander Albon took his greatest results of the season to date in eighth. He has due to this fact tied Nigel Mansell as the motive force to have began probably the most races for Williams: each have made 95. Albon ought to beat that this weekend, although even on the age of 72 it might be unwise to rule out one other Mansell comeback…
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