Antonelli seals Monaco as Gasly loses podium

Kimi Antonelli won the Monaco Grand Prix to claim a fifth straight victory, become the youngest-ever winner in the principality and tighten his grip on the 2026 Formula 1 title fight in a race consumed by penalties, a red flag and two major controversies involving Alpine and Ferrari.

Lewis Hamilton finished second after Antonelli kept control through a 78-lap race shaped by safety cars, crashes and several retirements. The win was Antonelli’s fifth from the first six races of the season and further strengthened his championship lead, underlining the form that has turned him into the standout driver of 2026.

The mess behind him became the bigger talking point. Pierre Gasly crossed the line third, but dropped to seventh once 10 seconds of pit-lane speeding penalties were applied. De Telegraaf reported that Gasly did not know he lacked enough of a gap over Isack Hadjar because Alpine had not informed him over the radio, turning what looked like a Monaco podium into one of the cruelest results of the weekend.

Ferrari’s home-race nightmare was just as dramatic. Charles Leclerc had started the weekend fastest in first practice, then lost his shot at pole when he hit the wall on his final qualifying lap. His race ended at the safety-car restart when he crashed out, triggering the red flag on an afternoon already full of incidents.

Afterwards, Leclerc blamed a brake problem for the accident. La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that he said “three of his four brakes were not working properly.” Brembo answered with a notably direct response, saying it was “surprised by Leclerc’s comments” and that it was “too early to draw conclusions before Ferrari and the supplier had fully analysed the telemetry data.”

The race had already been destabilized by other incidents, including Max Verstappen failing to get off the start line in a timely manner and a stream of FIA penalties that repeatedly reshaped the order.

One driver who benefited from that churn was Fernando Alonso. Marca reported that Alonso inherited 10th place for Aston Martin’s first point of the 2026 season after Sergio Perez’s second false-start penalty denied Cadillac what would have been its first point in Formula 1, another reminder that in Monaco the fallout can matter almost as much as the finish.