Everything went wrong for Kimi Antonelli at Silverstone! | Formula 1 British Grand Prix 2026

...exceeding track limits five times. He's done it six times now. Ah, nothing broken in the car. Here we go. Kimi Antonelli slowing down as Lance Stroll passes him. And this is looking bad for the championship leader. Everything was looking good up until this moment. He's coming into the pits. OK, any more info? Ah, nothing broken. Copy, any more info? Ah, the car is like this, I don't know. Ah, no. Could this be another Barcelona with a mechanical failure for Kimi Antonelli? Costing him dear. Ted Kravitz is down there. They've got a new front wing. I'm having a look at the suspension. Is there anything in the way? No, the tyres are being changed. Oh, as time ebbs away from Kimi Antonelli, I think that maybe there was a broken brake duct on the front, but he rejoins and that's going to be a loss of, what, 20 seconds? That might even put him off the podium. Unbelievable. Yeah, he might come out behind his teammate, George Russell, here. I think he's got some... I think I noticed his steering wheel wasn't straight as he was... Suspension is broken. Yeah. OK, copy, copy. I noticed when he came into the pits, his steering wheel wasn't straight at one point when he was heading in a straight line, so it seemed inconceivable he'd have to pit immediately and a wing and a set of boots would fix it, frankly, unless it was a penalty, but they would have known that anyway. And all of a sudden, it has just swung around knots in Kimi Antonelli's favour and it is looking like a second failure to reach the chequered flag. We think it is just the wheel shield, left-hand side. It sounds like it's catching that. OK, standby. Sounds like something's catching, isn't it, with his steering, but... It looked like a brake duct might be ski-whiff. Oh, you can see it on the left-hand side. Yeah. Now... OK, copy. So we'll box the car. So we'll retire the car. Yeah, you can see his left. Oh, he's pleading with the team to carry on here, but it looks like it will all be to no avail and they don't want to be running that car when it's not safe to run and he's already gone off the track two or three times. OK, copy, NOS. OK, we're going to try... Let's box. So box the car. We'll try and remove the wheel shield and go again. Confirmation from Mercedes, it is a front-left wheel shield failure for Kimi Antonelli. You can see it now. You can see now. If they can rip that off, then he's got a chance. Ah, there it is. On the kerb. It was on the serrated kerb on the outside of Copse has broken it and what that will also be doing is trashing the aerodynamics down that side of the car. Antonelli pits. He's going to be passed in the pit lane by Lawson and Lindblad, potentially Bortoletto as well, who's finished 11th in the last three races and is already in the points here. As they rip that off, it's still going to affect the aero, but at least the offending part has been removed now. He's been shown a black and white flag to aid to his troubles for track limits. One more and he's got a five-second penalty. He will come out onto the racetrack in 10th place. If every point is precious, Kimi Antonelli is going to scrap away for every point and there's the Alpine in the background.