Race Report & Results 2026 Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix
Event: Monaco F1 Grand Prix
Track: Monaco Circuit
The beautiful Monte Carlo harbor view
Weather: dry 23°C / 74°F Sunny
Tarmac: dry 31°C / 89°F
Humidity : 66%
Wind : 0.8 km/h
Pressure: 1018 mbar
Kimi Antonelli scored his 5th F1 race win in a row today. The Italian driver won the Monaco Grand Prix for the very first time. It was also his fifth race win of the 2026 season. The Mercedes driver started from pole , led all laps and drove to victory even after a restart due to a red flag. It was the 137th race win for the German Mercedes F1 team.
Antonelli Conquers Chaotic Monaco for Fifth Straight Win
Kimi Antonelli delivered another startling statement of intent in Monte Carlo, winning a chaotic 2026 Monaco Grand Prix from pole to claim his fifth consecutive Formula 1 victory and stretch his championship lead to 66 points over Lewis Hamilton.
Antonelli Turns Pole Into Control
The Mercedes teenager made the clean start he needed and was never seriously headed, despite Safety Car interruptions, a red flag, tyre worries and the usual Monaco traffic lottery.
Hamilton kept in the hunt early on, but Antonelli’s pace was ruthless once the race settled. By mid-distance he had built a gap big enough to take the sting out of Ferrari’s strategy threat, and even a late standing restart failed to rattle him.
Once he held the lead into Sainte Devote after the restart, the result looked inevitable. He eventually crossed the line comfortably clear of Hamilton.
Hamilton Takes Another Monaco Podium
Hamilton finished second for Ferrari, securing a record-equalling eighth Monaco podium on a day when Ferrari had pace, but not quite enough to trouble Mercedes.
Charles Leclerc’s home race unravelled badly. After struggling with braking consistency, the Monegasque crashed at the same corner as Lance Stroll late in the race, sliding off on marbles at Anthony Noghes.
Hadjar Grabs Red Bull Podium Amid Chaos
Isack Hadjar completed the podium for after Pierre Gasly’s penalties dropped him from third on the road to seventh. It was a hard-earned result for Hadjar, who battled driveability issues and power loss for much of the race.
Oscar Piastri finished fourth for McLaren, ahead of Liam Lawson and , while Alex Albon, Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Ocon were listed among the points finishers after a messy late shuffle of penalties and retirements.
Verstappen, Norris And Leclerc All Out
The race was brutal for several big names. Max Verstappen’s afternoon was effectively over almost immediately after a poor getaway and power unit trouble, forcing him into retirement after just a few laps.
Valtteri Bottas retired with brake issues, Oliver Bearman was called in after early damage, and Lando Norris was forced out with a power unit problem during McLaren’s 1000th Grand Prix.
Stroll’s crash brought out the Safety Car, Leclerc’s near-identical accident triggered further disruption, and Carlos Sainz was later eliminated after contact with Hulkenberg at the restart.
Mercedes Momentum Keeps Building
For Mercedes, this was another emphatic Antonelli-led statement. George Russell’s race, by contrast, collapsed through penalties and poor fortune, including a drive-through for failing to serve an earlier time penalty correctly.
That contrast will not go unnoticed. Antonelli now looks less like F1’s next big thing and more like the driver everyone else is already chasing.
Monaco rarely gives much away. This time, it gave Antonelli another trophy, Mercedes another major result, and the rest of the field another headache.
After the race Perez lost his 10th position and first point for the team, due to a penalty he received for a false start.
On Friday after the race the FIA reviewed the camera footage of Pierre Gasly and reinstated his 3rd place finish. Unfortunately for Isack Hadjar, because he now lost his first podium for Red Bull.
Update: Gasly Penalties Reinstated After FIA Appeal
On 4 September 2026, the FIA confirmed that its International Court of Appeal had reinstated the two five-second penalties given to Pierre Gasly for pit-lane speeding during the Monaco Grand Prix. Alpine had successfully challenged the penalties after the race, which initially restored Gasly to third place, but McLaren and Red Bull appealed that decision.
Following a hearing on 25 August, the Court ruled in their favour and reinstated both penalties. As a result, Gasly loses his restored podium finish and Isack Hadjar moves back into third place, with the Monaco race classification and championship points to be amended accordingly.
Classification 2026 Monaco GP
Penalties:
- Franco Colapinto, Alpine A526 #43 - 5 second time penalty, due to speeding in the pit lane.
- Lance Stroll, Aston Martin AMR26 #18 - 5 second time penalty applied, exceeding track limits.
- Nico Hulkenberg, Audi RS26 #27 - 10 second time penalty, due to causing a collision.
- Sergio Perez, Cadillac #11 - 10 second time penalty - due to false start.
- Reinstated: Pierre Gasly, Alpine A526 #10 - 2 x 5 second time penalty, due to speeding in the pit lane.
Fastest lap: 1:13.481 min by Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes W17 #12 on lap 76 @163.487 km/h
Quickest Sector Times
The quickest sector times during the 2026 Monaco F1 Grand Prix were:
- Sector 1: 19.379 sec. by Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes W17).
- Sector 2: 34.566 sec. by Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes W17).
- Sector 3: 19.536 sec. by Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes W17).
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The race had been relatively exciting already before the first SC interruption, despite the usual scarcity of overtaking, as close following & variable strategies brought some excitement.
The red-flagging seemed excessive.
The amount of penalties with pit lane speeding, though, & Gasly’s additional five-second addition seems excessive as he kept the pit limiter on beyond the fast lane end line.
Amid all these, Alonso will likely get Aston Martin’s first point this season.
Simply put, what a mess, including Russell's slowing tactics that caused the Hulkenberg-Sainz contact.
Biggest dissapointment was , now what will i say, ???? Reliability is everything and today denied all fans of a thrilling 1st and 2nd battle but heh thats f1
Mrs plastic tits+lips ignoring Brundle was embarrassing goes without saying
Great to see Kimi winning at Monaco, but it was a shame we couldn't see the showdown between Antonelli, Verstappen and Hamilton. Congratulations to Antonelli and Mercedes for the win, but the way Ferrari treaded Leclerc's pitstop during safety car period and Mercedes treaded Russell's penalty will be a nice to a "nice" debrief...
Yes, Leclerc was understandably annoyed as he had second place in the bag until Ferrari had him double stack, waiting for Lewis to serve his penalty. He should have stayed out. Red Bull had the stones to do it with Hadjar, which allowed him to retake third place.
Second place in the bin you say, he put the car in the barrier there's no second or third place from there. Might as well say Max had 2nd place in bag.
Ah, but had he been in second at this point he would have been elsewhere on the track. It's unknown. His mood would also have been better. I think he let his frustration get to him. Maybe that isn't right, but again, being in second means the outcome of his race may have been different.
Even if he crashed out, he must have felt he had second place at this point before Ferrari gave it back to Lewis without reason.
They didn't 'give' anything away, they both stopped for tyres during a SC, like so many other cars did. Just get over the fact LH had a better weekend than Leclerc.
The pinnacle of motorsports! HaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!
Chaotic... reminded my of 1996, but without the rain.
Great from Antonelli. I expect that Max might have spent the race struggling to stay ahead of the Ferraris and not changed the result for Andrea. The phrase "real deal" was in my head after qualifying. Brundle said it after the race. The Sky team was terrible and had no idea what was happening a lot of the time, with poor understanding of the rules - even more than usual. After almost falling out of his chair several times thinking George was going to pass someone on track... in Monaco... "Crofty" seemed unaware that Lando had slowed and George had gotten past him for several minutes. Brundle had given up on Croft's enthusiasm for George somehow driving through cars, but even he missed some obvious things. Were they having a few drinks on one of the yachts while trying to get the attention of some jolies filles?
I expected the pressure to show on the restart, but Andrea didn't falter. This was quite the weekend for him. Yes, he has the car, but he still had to drive it and he made no mistakes. George, on the other hand, was all over the place. He might be the only driver I thoroughly dislike, possessing pantomime villain levels of plonker.
Ferrari messed Charles around, asking him in so he could wait while Lewis served his penalty. Why did he sign for them again?!?
If what Stroll and Alonso have said about their car is true, it doesn't sound raceworthy. You can't have cars arbitrarily either engine braking or propelling themselves forward. If the issue continues, the team should be stopped from participating in races as they will ruin them with safety cars. Well done to Alonso for getting that point, anyhow. It seems that Lewis is fast in the right car, but Alonso can drive any car!
One good outcome was that Williams may have suffered from playing silly buggers. One comment from Brundle was that it was always possible to back people up at Monaco, but they just didn't do it to get free pit stops back in the day. Well, back in the day, you were free to pick your own tyre strategy, so doing this would have little benefit. The law of unintended consequences...
Bernie collins explaining the pit lane speed penalty , yeah its like being on the motorway, you know the average speed cameras,she probably thought how can i make it easy for the dumb buggas on the sky team to understand---priceless lol
She's only there for comedy value - competence seems out of place while the rest of the team act like the three stooges mixed with the Marx brothers!
instead of overlapping teams, we should select between all kind of tweak per race.
Great results for Kimi at 19yrs old and Izak22yrs old,must be huge thrill for both of them sharing the podium with the goat. Must be awhile since we’ve seen a different driver on the podium driving a Red Bull.
The only alive or able-bodied driver with a claim to be the greatest is Alain Prost.
What utter tosh , everyone knows my wife is the best driver out there, i get to hear it everytime shes in the passenger seat...!
On the subject of race coverage... I see Peter Windsor was covering the race for members. I'm sure we'll all miss some things and feel like wallies about them, but has anyone come across coverage worth listening to? I can turn off the sound and listen to someone else covering the race instead. Sky and F1TV have the advantage of having a large team and a lot of data in front of them, so it might be difficult to match the amount of information they have to hand. F1TV is far less annoying, but I stopped paying for that.