{"id":603090,"date":"2026-05-25T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603090\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:27:10","slug":"mercedes-teen-antonelli-wins-canadian-gp-for-fourth-straight-f1-victory-motorsports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603090\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes teen Antonelli wins Canadian GP for fourth straight F1 victory | Motorsports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antonelli finished more than 10 seconds ahead of Ferrari\u2019s Hamilton, who secured his second podium finish in 2026.<\/p>\n

Published On 25 May 202625 May 2026<\/p>\n

Kimi Antonelli went from furious to victorious as the 19-year-old Italian star won a wild Canadian Grand Prix for his fourth straight victory, a day after clashing with Mercedes teammate George Russell in a heated sprint race.<\/p>\n

Russell dropped out with an engine failure after the title-chasing Mercedes duo put on a show in a thrilling fight through 30 laps, trading the lead several times and coming dangerously close to making contact in the race on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Then trouble struck for Russell, giving Antonelli a clear path to the finish \u2013 and a commanding championship lead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a really fun battle, to be fair, with George. We were pretty much on the limit,\u201d Antonelli said. \u201cIt was very close, and it was a shame for him to have the failure because it would have been a very cool battle. But we\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ferrari'sHamilton celebrates his podium finish [Geoff Robins\/AFP]<\/p>\n

Antonelli finished more than 10 seconds ahead of Ferrari\u2019s Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n

Antonelli opened a 43-point lead over Russell through five of 22 races. After Russell won the season-opening race in Australia<\/a>, Antonelli won in China<\/a>, Japan<\/a> and Miami<\/a>, and now Montreal.<\/p>\n

Russell\u2019s exit marked a nightmare end to an otherwise stellar weekend for the Montreal winner last year. He took the sprint race from pole on Saturday and started first on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Once his power unit died, the 28-year-old English driver threw his headrest across the track and slammed his fists into the front of the car before leaving the circuit, whipping his gloves to the ground in rage.<\/p>\n

Russell said he wished he had had \u201c40 more of those laps\u201d to battle Antonelli.<\/p>\n

\u201cI loved it. I thought it was great, and I\u2019ve not had a battle like this in years,\u201d he said. \u201cRight now [the championship] is his to lose, so many points ahead. It feels like the gods don\u2019t want me to be in this fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cPressure\u2019s off. Go out, enjoy every single race, try and win every single race, and I\u2019ve got nothing to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spotlight shifted to two longtime rivals once Russell\u2019s day ended, with Hamilton chasing down Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen in a throwback to 2021.<\/p>\n

The seven-time world champion finally overtook Verstappen for second with six laps to go in cold and windy conditions at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve for his best result since joining Ferrari last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty tough for the past year and a bit, so to finally find our sweet spot and have a good weekend, it\u2019s an amazing feeling,\u201d the 41-year-old Hamilton said.<\/p>\n

Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc was fourth, followed by Red Bull\u2019s Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n

Formula One standings 2026<\/p>\n

Mercedes (219) lead Ferrari (147) by \u200c72 \u200cpoints in the constructors\u2019 standings. McLaren, who did not have a driver score on Sunday, are third with 106 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antonelli finished more than 10 seconds ahead of Ferrari\u2019s Hamilton, who secured his second podium finish in 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[626,59,18733,217,101,56,54,55,3544],"class_list":["post-603090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-canada","tag-gb","tag-motorsports","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}