2026 Monaco GP Race Review
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What happened in the chaotic start with all the penalties at Monaco?
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Hello and a very warm welcome to the Late Breaking F1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hawking. It's Monaco Grand Prix review time, and good luck to us because where on earth are we gonna start with all of that? Um, we can at least start by saying Kimmy Antonelli has won this race and therefore won five in a row. First ever Monaco Grand Prix victory for him. I I I can't even say that with 100% confidence, because whilst he He's not under investigation and wasn't all day, Sam. It feels like at any moment there could be just another ten second penalty that rolls through. Yeah, you get a penalty and you get a penalty and you get a penalty. It feels like it was just funsies in terms of the penalties.
A lot of the time we critique the FIA skewids for not giving out penalties fast enough, and here it's almost like a mummy gun. You give them more to do and they get quicker. I know. Again, another one. Another one. Um, yeah, they were just dishing them out. We had the pit lane controversy going on or whether the speaking thing was correct. We had drive-throughs for Russell because penalties weren't served properly. We've had out-of-group grid position with Perez, possibly again.
How did Kimi Antonelli dominate the race and secure his fifth straight win?
We're waiting to hear that come through. There is so many different types of penalties. Large Straw managed to get a track limits penalty at Monaco. I don't know how it happened, but he actually. Yeah, the wall is track limits, I'm afraid. Don't touch it. I I I'm joking, lads. I am joking. Um Yeah, good luck to us trying to get through all of this today. We'll do our best to cover everything that we possibly can in the next hour or so. And that's why you need to be on Patreon for power rankings because uh early plug today. I know you love those early plugs. Um we're we're gonna do our best to get through as much as we can, but every single driver is covered in that on our Patreon from tomorrow. Um we've got driver of the day coming up, worst driver of the day, everything to do with McLaren, Red Bull,
Ferrari all having very mixed days, I think you could say. Um, but let's start out front with a guy who definitely didn't have a mixed day, Kimi Antonelli. Questions about some of his poorer starts so far this year. Was that going to cost him here at Monaco? In the end, he had to do two of them. And they were absolutely fine in both instances, led this race at one point by nearly thirty seconds. The safety car will make this look a bit closer than it was, but even with that, Sam, the the six or seven laps or so after the uh after the red flag, he still managed to open up about a um a pit stop advantage over third place. I was almost stunned to silence at just how quick. Uh, Kim Ransogadie was, um, genuinely shocked at how fast he was.
We came to this weekend and we thought that Mercedes might be at a disadvantage. And in the eyes of George Russell, it was at a disadvantage. He was unable to produce any kind of competent, quick result that showed up properly throughout the whole weekend. It never looked likely that he was going to appear on the podium at any point this weekend. And yet on the other side of the garage, his 19-year-old teammate. Who has become the youngest ever Monaco GP winner, five in a row? It looked like at one point he was going to win with the biggest winning margin that we've seen in the 21st century. He was so much faster than everyone else. And the Ferraris did not have a response, even in the clean air. Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc unable to even remotely reign in Antonelli in the Mercedes.
And You're right. That moment that the uh the race restarted with about six or seven laps ago and you think, okay, sure. This is gonna be a close one. Hamilton might get alongside it to turn one. It was close for a lap or two, right? Hamilton stuck by him initially. One point one, one point two, and it stayed like that for one lap, and then suddenly he's seven seconds up the road.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in the chaotic start with all the penalties at Monaco?
0:00–1:24
2
How did Kimi Antonelli dominate the race and secure his fifth straight win?
1:24–5:05
3
Why did George Russell’s weekend collapse after qualifying and the pit‑lane penalty?
5:05–10:12
4
Was the red‑flag decision the right call for driver safety at Monaco?
10:12–15:43
5
What caused the track‑surface failure and how did the officials respond?
15:43–22:03
6
How did Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc perform despite the race’s turmoil?
22:03–31:47
7
What went wrong for McLaren and Ferrari and how did it affect the midfield battle?
31:47–51:41
8
Who were the fan‑selected ‘moments of the race’ and why did they stand out?
51:41–1:16:21