Lawson<\/a> equalled his best ever F1 result while team-mate Arvid Lindblad finished just behind him after starting 15th on the grid.<\/p>\n“For us it’s a good result, it feels really good especially where we started the weekend and obviously where we started the race as well,” Lawson told Sky.<\/p>\n
Lawson and Lindblad were lucky to get to the grid as the Racing Bulls team were still working on both cars in the pit lane just before the start.<\/p>\n
Both drivers made their way through the field as the chaos went on around them with seven drivers failing to finish while others are still under investigation for a variety of infringements.<\/p>\n
Lawson is now ninth in the Drivers Championship with 26 points.<\/p>\n
However he admitted he had doubts about his race today.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t think I was going to race, I turned up to the garage and we had issues and I saw the car in pieces and so to put it together and just go and have a car that was very competitive was great.<\/p>\n
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\nMercedes F1 driver Kimi Antonelli celebrates.
\nPhoto: Eric Alonso \/ PHOTOSPORT\n<\/p>\n
Antonelli built a commanding lead after starting from pole in his Mercedes but that evaporated after a late red flag to inspect a crumbling surface at the final corner following a crash that took out Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.<\/p>\n
After a delay of around 40 minutes while repairs were carried out, the race resumed with a standing start but 19-year-old Antonelli remained unfazed as he became the youngest ever winner of the iconic race.<\/p>\n
Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton was runner-up for the second successive Grand Prix with Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar provisionally third, although he was one of a number of drivers under investigation for a variety of infringements.<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen, who lined up second on the grid, stalled at the start and retired after one lap. McLaren driver Lando Norris also retired with mechanical issues.<\/p>\n
Hamilton, who equalled the late Ayrton Senna’s eight Monaco podiums, moved above Antonelli’s team mate George Russell into second place in the standings, 66 points behind Antonelli.<\/p>\n
The next round is in Spain.<\/p>\n
-Reuters with additional reporting from RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson at Monaco GP, 2026 Photo: www.photosport.nz Liam Lawson survived a chaotic Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-465816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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