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Monaco Grand Prix

2026-06-07·78 laps

Kimi Antonelli became the youngest-ever winner of the Monaco Grand Prix, taking his fifth consecutive victory of the season in a dramatic race turned upside down in its closing stages. A late Lance Stroll crash brought out a Safety Car, during which George Russell failed to serve a five-second penalty and was hit with a drive-through, dropping him out of the points entirely. The race was thrown into further chaos when Charles Leclerc crashed on the Safety Car restart, triggering a red flag while the FIA repaired breaking tarmac at the final corner — a stoppage that lasted 37 minutes before the final 10 laps got underway. Lewis Hamilton pressured Antonelli hard in the run to the flag but could not find a way past, finishing second, with Isack Hadjar completing the podium in third after a post-race appeal saga that briefly stripped and then restored his result. The race also produced five separate time penalties, for pit lane speeding, track limits, causing a collision and a false start, reshuffling several places in the points.

Race Winner

Kimi Antonelli

Mercedes

Fastest Lap

1:13.481

Kimi Antonelli

Conditions

☀ Dry

Circuit Profile

Circuit de Monaco

Lap length

3.337 km

Race distance

78 laps · 260.3 km

Tyre allocation

H C3 · M C4 · S C5

Pit-lane loss (model)

≈ 22 s

Tyre degradation

Low

Overtaking

Difficult

Pit-lane loss, degradation and overtaking are PITWALL simulator inputs for this circuit, not official figures.

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Qualifying

POS	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	Kimi Antonelli	1:13.599	1:12.704	1:12.051	1
2	Max Verstappen	1:13.490	1:12.499	1:12.094	2
3	Lewis Hamilton	1:13.777	1:12.934	1:12.279	3
4	Charles Leclerc	1:13.293	1:12.774	1:12.351	4
5	Isack Hadjar	1:14.408	1:12.722	1:12.434	5
6	George Russell	1:14.214	1:13.238	1:12.445	6
7	Oscar Piastri	1:14.159	1:12.983	1:12.624	7
8	Lando Norris	1:13.630	1:12.919	1:12.765	8
9	Pierre Gasly	1:14.469	1:13.762	1:13.226	9
10	Liam Lawson	1:14.498	1:13.471	1:13.412	10
11	Alexander Albon	1:14.321	1:13.787	—	11
12	Carlos Sainz	1:14.348	1:13.815	—	12
13	Nico Hulkenberg	1:13.923	1:13.902	—	13
14	Franco Colapinto	1:14.573	1:13.995	—	14
15	Arvid Lindblad	1:14.685	1:14.248	—	15
16	Gabriel Bortoleto	1:14.683	—	—	16
17	Esteban Ocon	1:14.722	—	—	17
18	Sergio Perez	1:14.747	—	—	18
19	Oliver Bearman	1:14.814	—	—	19
20	Valtteri Bottas	1:15.283	—	—	20
21	Fernando Alonso	1:15.349	—	—	21
22	Lance Stroll	1:16.061	—	—	22

Grid to Finish

Places gained or lost between the starting grid (after penalties) and the flag, for 15 of 15 classified drivers.

Biggest gains

Fernando AlonsoP21 → P10+11

Arvid LindbladP15 → P6+9

Esteban OconP17 → P9+8

Biggest losses

George RussellP6 → P12-6

Race Timeline

🚦LAP 1Lights out — 78 laps scheduled

🔧LAP 3First pit stop of the race: Fernando Alonso switches to Soft

🏆LAP 37Race winner Kimi Antonelli makes stop 1, fitting Hard

🚗LAP 60Lance Stroll crashes late in the race, bringing out the Safety Car.

LAP 61George Russell fails to serve a five-second penalty under the Safety Car and is hit with a drive-through, dropping him out of the points entirely.

🏆LAP 61Race winner Kimi Antonelli makes stop 2, fitting Soft

🚩LAP 62Charles Leclerc crashes on the Safety Car restart, triggering a red flag while the FIA repairs breaking tarmac at the final corner — the race is stopped for 37 minutes.

🔧LAP 66Last pit stop of the race: Pierre Gasly switches to Hard

🏎LAP 78After a 37-minute stoppage, the final 10 laps run with Hamilton pressuring Antonelli hard but unable to complete a pass — Antonelli takes the win, his fifth in a row, and becomes the youngest-ever Monaco winner.

🏁LAP 78Chequered flag — Kimi Antonelli wins

Tyre Strategy

Every stint for the 11 classified drivers with recorded pit data (15 classified in total). Bar lengths are to scale with the 78-lap race distance.

🚩 marks a tyre change made while the race was red-flagged — a free change, not a pit stop. Stop counts below include pit stops only.

P1Kimi Antonelli

M 37

H 24

S

S 10

P2Lewis Hamilton

M 28

H 32

S

S 10

P3Isack Hadjar

M 32

H 36

S 10

P4Oscar Piastri

M 48

H 11

S

S 10

P5Liam Lawson

M 44

S 24

S 10

P7Pierre Gasly

M 45

H 21

H

S 10

P8Alexander Albon

M 43

S 22

S 13

P9Esteban Ocon

M

H 56

S 13

P10Fernando Alonso

M

S 55

S 10

S 10

P12George Russell

M 31

H 29

S

S 10

P15Sergio Perez

S

M 55

S

S

S 10

LAP 1LAP 39LAP 78

One-stop

2

Two-stop

8

Three+ stops

1

🚩 9 driver(s) changed tyres under the red flag

Winner's strategy: Medium → Hard → Soft → Soft

Longest stint: Esteban Ocon, 56 laps on Hard

Compound sequences used

Medium → Hard → Soft → Soft

4 driver(s) · best result P1

Medium → Hard → Soft

2 driver(s) · best result P3

Medium → Soft → Soft

2 driver(s) · best result P5

Medium → Hard → Hard → Soft

1 driver(s) · best result P7

Medium → Soft → Soft → Soft

1 driver(s) · best result P10

Soft → Medium → Soft → Soft → Soft

1 driver(s) · best result P15

Pit Stops & Neutralisations

First stops came between lap 3 and lap 48, with a median of lap 32.

Stops made within 2 laps of a Safety Car or VSC being called. The race data records when a neutralisation started, not when it ended.

🚗 Safety Car · lap 60

Kimi Antonelli — lap 61, stop 2, onto Soft
Lewis Hamilton — lap 60, stop 2, onto Soft
George Russell — lap 60, stop 2, onto Soft
Charles Leclerc — lap 60, stop 2, onto Soft

Why They Lost

Strategy and race factors that shaped the result for drivers who finished behind Kimi Antonelli.

P15Sergio PerezCadillac

▸Made 3 stops to the winner's 2, conceding track position on the extra in-lap and out-lap.
▸Pitted 33 laps earlier than Kimi Antonelli (lap 4 vs 37), exposing the next stint to more wear.

P2Lewis HamiltonFerrari

▸Pitted 9 laps earlier than Kimi Antonelli (lap 28 vs 37), exposing the next stint to more wear.

P3Isack HadjarRed Bull Racing

▸Pitted 5 laps earlier than Kimi Antonelli (lap 32 vs 37), exposing the next stint to more wear.

P4Oscar PiastriMcLaren

▸Pitted 11 laps later than Kimi Antonelli (lap 48 vs 37), losing time on worn tyres before the stop.

P5Liam LawsonRacing Bulls

▸Pitted 7 laps later than Kimi Antonelli (lap 44 vs 37), losing time on worn tyres before the stop.

P7Pierre GaslyAlpine

▸Pitted 8 laps later than Kimi Antonelli (lap 45 vs 37), losing time on worn tyres before the stop.

Strategy Breakdown

Simulator replay is unavailable for this race: the simulator can't yet reproduce free tyre changes under a red flag, so a replay would charge pit-lane time the drivers never lost.

POS	Driver	Strategy	Time	Gap
1	Kimi Antonelli Mercedes	M→HL37→SL61→S🚩L68	2:23:31.243	+0.000	—
2	Lewis Hamilton Ferrari	M→HL28→SL60→S🚩L68	2:23:37.514	+6.271	—
3	Isack Hadjar Red Bull Racing	M→HL32→S🚩L68	2:23:54.637	+23.394	—
4	Oscar Piastri McLaren	M→HL48→SL59→S🚩L68	2:23:55.504	+24.261	—
5	Liam Lawson Racing Bulls	M→SL44→S🚩L68	2:23:57.796	+26.553	—
6	Arvid Lindblad Racing Bulls	?	2:24:00.253	+29.010	—
7	Pierre Gasly Alpine	M→HL45→HL66→S🚩L68	2:24:01.612	+30.369 (incl. 2x5s penalty)	—
8	Alexander Albon Williams	M→SL43→SL65	2:24:04.656	+33.413	—
9	Esteban Ocon Haas	M→HL9→SL65	2:24:08.383	+37.140	—
10	Fernando Alonso Aston Martin	M→SL3→SL58→S🚩L68	2:24:13.142	+41.899	—
11	Gabriel Bortoleto Audi	?	2:24:13.991	+42.748	—
12	George Russell Mercedes	M→HL31→SL60→S🚩L68	2:24:14.596	+43.353 (incl. drive-through)	—
13	Nico Hulkenberg Audi	?	2:24:15.345	+44.102 (incl. 10s penalty)	—
14	Franco Colapinto Alpine	?	2:24:20.207	+48.964 (incl. 5s penalty)	—
15	Sergio Perez Cadillac	S→ML4→SL59→SL65→S🚩L68	2:24:20.396	+49.153 (incl. 10s penalty)	—
16	Carlos Sainz Williams	M→SL52→SL65→S🚩L68	—	DNF	—
17	Charles Leclerc Ferrari	M→HL35→SL60	—	DNF	—
18	Lance Stroll Aston Martin	M→SL4	—	DNF	—
19	Lando Norris McLaren	M	—	DNF	—
20	Oliver Bearman Haas	H	—	DNF	—
21	Valtteri Bottas Cadillac	M	—	DNF	—
22	Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing	M	—	DNF	—