Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli was forced to retire his car just after he was able to beat teammate Russell in the fight for P2, behind Lewis Hamilton, in the F1 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya GP. It was a weekend to forget for Antonelli. After missing FP1 and struggling in FP2 and FP3, the Mercedes driver was just able…
From the get-go, the 2026 F1 Barcelona-Catalunya GP promised to be an interesting one, with pole sitter George Russell starting one compound harder than Lewis Hamilton in P2. Add to that a two-stop strategy and lots of tyre degradation, and multiple scenarios could unfold. At the back, hometown hero Fernando Alonso opted to start from…
Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli finished P3 in the F1 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya GP Qualifying. He will start from behind the first row for the first time this season on Sunday. Current championship leader, Antonelli, set a time of 1:14.998 in Q3, which qualified him behind teammate George Russell and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton. During the weekend, the Italian…
2026 F1 Constructors’ Championship leaders Mercedes had a solid day of running on Friday ahead of the Barcelona-Catalunya GP. George Russell lead the field in FP1, which also saw development driver Frederik Vesti on track. In the afternoon Kimi Antonelli took back his spot in a session that saw Russell narrowly miss out on P1….
Round 6 of the F1 2026 season has been completed around the historic Circuit of Monaco. View the full Monaco GP race results here. The starting grid was led by the current championship leader, Kimi Antonelli. Next to him, Verstappen, who was out of the race on the first lap after staying still as the…
Kimi Antonelli headed into the F1 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya GP with Mercedes looking for clearer answers on its latest upgrade package and its position in the competitive order. After unusual weekends in Canada and Monaco because of the track layouts, Barcelona offers a more representative test for the team. Antonelli also arrived in Spain with growing…
Toto Wolff reflected on a stunning F1 Monaco GP weekend for Mercedes after Kimi Antonelli claimed pole position and went on to win the race, extending his championship lead. Speaking to media after the F1 Monaco GP, the Mercedes Team Principal and CEO praised the 19-year-old’s dominant weekend. Antonelli has now won five consecutive races…
Lewis Hamilton has opened up about how his race unfolded, what his recent performance signifies, the areas where Ferrari are still lagging behind, the factors that have enabled him to take a step forward in the 2026 F1 season, and his opinion of Kimi Antonelli’s campaign so far following his second-place finish at the Monaco…
In a race where many of his fellow F1 drivers tripped up, Kimi Antonelli put in a flawless drive to win the 2026 Monaco GP, and extend his championship lead to a whopping 66 points over his nearest rival, which is now Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton. The 19-year-old Italian managed to thread his way through the…
Kimi Antonelli secured his fourth pole position of the 2026 F1 season with a great lap in qualifying for the Monaco GP, and secured what surely is Mercedes’ best chance of winning around the principality since the 2019 edition, as the young Italian managed to just pip four-time world champion Max Verstappen by 43 thousandths…
