Kimi Antonelli has already made history in 2026, with the 19-year-old becoming the sport\u2019s youngest-ever championship leader when he climbed to the top spot after his second victory of the campaign in Japan.<\/p>\n
The Italian then sealed another record with his latest triumph in Miami, which marked the first time that a driver has converted their first three pole positions into three consecutive wins.<\/p>\n
With 100 points to his name, Antonelli<\/a> has also enjoyed the strongest points-scoring start to an F1 season in 10 years \u2013 and, incidentally, the last time such a feat occurred was via another Mercedes<\/a> driver\u2026<\/p>\n Antonelli matches Rosberg\u2019s achievement<\/p>\n Antonelli is the first name to record this tally of points after the fourth round of the championship since Nico Rosberg<\/a>\u2019s succession of victories at the start of 2016.<\/p>\n Having missed out on the title to team mate Lewis Hamilton for two years prior, Rosberg appeared in determined form when the 2016 campaign got underway, earning 100 points by claiming back-to-back wins in Australia, Bahrain, China and Russia.<\/p>\n While Antonelli has taken one fewer Grand Prix victory on a total of three, the youngster\u2019s P2 in Australia coupled with a P5 and P6 in the China and Miami Sprints respectively, brings his total score up to the same number.<\/p>\n Rosberg\u2019s run was disrupted one round later in 2016 after an infamous first-lap collision with Hamilton in Barcelona put both out of the race \u2013 and opened the door for a certain Max Verstappen<\/a> to claim his maiden F1 victory \u2013 the Dutchman becoming the youngest-ever race winner at 18 years old.<\/p>\n Fast-forward 10 years and Antonelli just missed out on snatching that particular accolade himself, having to settle for being the second-youngest Grand Prix victor instead when he took his debut win in Shanghai.<\/p>\n But if the statistics in 2026 were to continue to match the rest of Rosberg\u2019s campaign \u2013 in which the German went on to clinch the title \u2013 the teenager would make history by becoming the sport\u2019s youngest-ever World Champion.<\/p>\n Mirroring Hamilton\u2019s scoring pattern<\/p>\n