Stats: Antonelli smashes record for youngest-ever ‘grand slam’

The Andrea Kimi Antonelli steamroller continued in Monaco where he scored his fifth consecutive grand prix victory. Taking his first four grands prix on the bounce was already a record.

This one was more special for a few reasons. First, obviously, because it was the Monaco Grand Prix, one of the oldest and undoubtedly the most famous of races.

However this was also Antonelli’s first ‘grand slam’: He won from pole position, setting fastest lap and leading every lap of the way.

He is the 28th driver to achieve this and the youngest to do so by a wide margin. At 19 years and 286 days he is almost four years younger than Max Verstappen was when he scored his first grand slam at the Austrian Grand Prix in 2021. Here are the five youngest:

Antonelli was joined on the podium by Lewis Hamilton, who was nearly a decade older when he scored his first grand slam at the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2014.

The lengthy red flag interruption made this the longest grand prix of the year so far: Antonelli won in 2hr 23’31.243. That made it the longest Monaco Grand Prix since 1972, when Jean-Pierre Beltoise scored his only win and BRM’s last on a soaking wet day.

Victory for Antonelli means Mercedes have now scored points in all of the last 22 rounds, covering a full calendar year. But for the second race in a row his team mate failed to score.

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George Russell ended his longest run 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 took no points for at least two consecutive rounds was over his final seven appearances for Williams at the end of 2021.

Another sobering thought for Russell is this: If Antonelli wins again this weekend, he will draw level with Russell’s tally of six career grand prix wins.

Hamilton again gave the lie to our pre-Canadian Grand Prix poll asking whether it was time for him to consider retirement by repeating his second place finish for Ferrari. He is now second in the championship for the first time since he was controversially pipped to the 2021 title.

However long Hamilton continues racing for, if he stays at Ferrari he knows his team mate will be Charles Leclerc, who confirmed his latest contract to drive for the team ahead of his home race. He did not get a result to celebrate it with, however, crashing out and registering his first no-score of the season.

Leclerc had a dismal run of luck at home (including in Formula 2) before his breakthrough win in 2024. He finished second last year, but this looked like a repeat of his luckless early races around Monte-Carlo.

Unless Alpine succeed on both counts with their Right of Review request tomorrow, Isack Hadjar claimed the second podium finish of his career for Red Bull. It is the first time in over two years a Red Bull not driven by Verstappen has reached the podium. Sergio Perez was the last driver to do so, in Shanghai.

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Liam Lawson equalled his best finish with fifth place while team mate Arvid Lindblad followed him home to register the best finish of his six-round career with sixth place. Racing Bulls therefore took their highest race weekend score under their current identity and their best under any name since the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, where Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly finished fourth and fifth respectively.

Gasly, however, will be hoping Alpine’s request for a review does succeed and he can claim what would be the sixth podium finish of his career.

Perez should have taken the final point and given Cadillac their first in F1. However he picked up three penalties during the course of Sunday, all of which were essentially for bad parking.

That handed the final point of the day to the indefatigable Fernando Alonso, and the first of the year to Aston Martin. The team must have feared they would end the year point-less after starting it as badly as they did.

Although this was the first weekend Lando Norris failed to score, it was the third time he has retired from a grand prix this year due to technical problems (he took points in sprint races at the other two rounds). His hopes of defending his world championship now look extremely forlorn as he is almost 100 points behind Antonelli already.

Finally, Alexander Albon took his best result of the season so far in eighth. He has therefore tied Nigel Mansell as the driver to have started the most races for Williams: both have made 95. Albon should beat that this weekend, though even at the age of 72 it would be unwise to rule out another Mansell comeback…

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