At 19, the Italian sensation has shattered history by becoming the youngest driver to secure a Grand Slam, capping an unprecedented five-race winning streak in Monaco.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli won the 2026 Monaco Grand Prix, securing his fifth consecutive Formula 1 victory at just 19 years old and in only his second season in the top tier of motorsport. The Italian driver continues to break records in a season where he is aiming for the championship.
The Italian driver secured pole position in qualifying, then went on to win the race after leading every lap and also setting the fastest lap. These achievements represent a Grand Slam in Formula 1.
Therefore, Andrea Kimi Antonelli is now the youngest driver in Formula 1 history to achieve a Grand Slam in a single weekend.
What other achievements has Andrea Kimi Antonelli accomplished in F1?
With his win in the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix, Andrea Kimi Antonelli became the first driver in Formula 1 history to win his first four races consecutively. In other words, the Italian driver is the first to have achieved his first four victories in a row.
Antonelli's victory at the 2026 Miami Grand Prix arrived, as has now become his signature, directly from pole position. The win marked the first time in the entire history of Formula 1 that a driver had converted each of his first three pole positions into race victories.
In doing so, he also matched Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher as the only drivers ever to take pole position consecutively in each of their first three starts. On the race side, he drew level with Damon Hill and Mika Häkkinen as the only drivers to win each of their first three Formula 1 victories in succession.
Following his victory at the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix — which gave him back-to-back wins — Antonelli became the youngest Drivers' Championship leader in the history of Formula 1. The record-breaking had already begun in earnest at the Chinese Grand Prix, where Antonelli claimed pole position to become the youngest polesitter in the entire history of the sport.
He then converted that pole into victory, making him simultaneously the youngest driver ever to achieve that conversion — and the second-youngest race winner of all time, behind only Max Verstappen. That win carried additional historical significance: it ended a 20-year drought for Italian drivers in Formula 1, with the previous Italian race victory dating all the way back to 2006.
What records did Andrea Kimi Antonelli break in F1 in 2025?
The records from his debut season in 2025 are equally striking in their own right. Antonelli finished seventh in the Drivers' Championship with 150 points — a tally that included a pole position and a Sprint Race podium. In doing so, he surpassed Lewis Hamilton's previous benchmark for the most points scored in a complete season by a Formula 1 rookie.
Beyond the points table, he also became the youngest driver in history to take pole position in any session format, the youngest ever to lead a race lap, and the youngest ever to set the fastest lap of a Grand Prix.
