. F1 Extended Highlights: Monaco Grand Prix

A theatre where legends have been forged and yesterday a special lap by a special driver, Kimi Antonelli with his fourth pole of 2026. He's taken the championship by the scruff of the neck and he's looking to make it five in a row. How about this for an entourage? This is just a couple of moments ago, the Kardashians are in and every man and his dog are following them. That is Sint Elvaro, Olympic snowboarding champion Aileen Gu. That's Max Hummels with the World Cup getting underway. 2014 winner for Germany is here. Two Formula One fans because they are themselves Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. 78 laps to come. Who's going to lead the opening lap? Who's going to win? It's lights out and away we go. Antonelli gets away brilliantly. Max has stalled on the grid. It's Antonelli who leads from Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc and Isaac Hauser and George Russell and Piastri and Norris going wheel to wheel. Piastri ahead of Norris who got compromised and Pierre Gasly is now trying to make the overtake going up through Beau Rivage and I think he manages to do it on Norris. Just bring it home please Max. Verstappen is into the pits. Bortoletto has made a pit stop at the end of the first lap too to get rid of his soft tyres. Max Verstappen we can see now they are not ready to change the tyres. They are not looking to change the tyres and I think Max Verstappen is out of the Monaco Grand Prix. George Russell did look like he was a little bit too far forward. Yeah that's a problem. So into Sainte-Devote we go and Max Verstappen is already out of the picture and Antonelli just streaking away there and there we can see the move Gasly on Norris. Yeah Norris is around the outside of Piastri but had to get out of it because he was too close to the barrier. George was angling his car as well. Max just getting bogged bogged down. I tell you what they did incredibly well not to smash into the back of him. Oh that must be the worst worst feeling. No further investigation. George Russell for a false start and being out of position. He didn't look a little bit far forward. He was certainly angled a bit but the stewards have said that's absolutely fine so no penalty coming his way. They've obviously seen there was some kind of contact patch of his front tyre. This is going to be scary for Norris. He's outside his grid box. Oh Lando certainly thought there was a problem and then oh there's Max not going. So Lando very good on the brakes around the outside but now he's going to get pinched up against the barrier by Oscar Piastri team mate and this is where Gasly steams past on the right hand side. Oh my god the engine breaking is a joke. What's happening? We're investigating. So there's something wrong. Something wrong. First gear man is not usable. Mode six. Mode six. We're looking into it mate. We're looking into it. Also the power is down. Yeah but look faster. I think I'll come to you as soon as I have a solution. I'll come to you. Something is going to explode. The engine is not healthy right now. Okay we can see the issue. We're working on a fix. We can see it. We're working on a fix. Currently there's no fix. We are all still working on a solution. Currently there's no fix. Head down. Let's see if they can help him with his problems. Hajar's gone straight over onto the runoff area. Now George Russell is going to close up. George Russell looking for a way through on the inside. And what will follow I'm sure in a couple of moments is a radio message from George Russell saying he cut the chicane. He gained an advantage. That's a last ten advantage. The car keeping on the track. He needs to get the position up. Copy. He's outbraking himself. He's got no tyres. Undercut. So get out on fresh tyres and finally get him past Isaac Hajar. But where will he feed out into the traffic? Well he will feed out behind Lando Norris. Isaac Hajar is in to make his pit stop. George Russell here he comes making his way down the straight. George Russell gets ahead of Isaac Hajar. The undercut on the Red Bull has been completed and finally Russell is free. He's got no power now. No power. No battery. Got nothing. Do the default again please. White default. 7-0 again. We're seeing a lot of power unit issues George Russell is given a five second time penalty for speeding. No further investigation. George Russell for crossing the line at the pit exit. Good. He was on the line wasn't he? And not they've decided they've microscopically looked at it. Good. Lando we want to do the holding strategy on Russell. We want to build up the seconds over the next couple of laps please. How long he holds him up for. Here comes George Russell. Sorry Martin. Just for one moment I thought that he was going to try and get alongside. He almost did get alongside but Norris had just enough. Oh as Lando Norris cuts the chicane. We're going to box this lap and retire the car. We're going to box the lap and retire the car. Oh and that power unit issue that Zac Brown was telling us about is going to cause Lando Norris, last year's winner, last year's world champion, to retire from the Monaco Grand Prix. George Russell I think got past Lando Norris there. He was already slowing down through the tunnel. Something's wrong. I got nothing. No battery. That's why they retired the car when they did because the battery and it's the battery again for Lando Norris. As there goes for it Arvid Lindblad. Brilliant from Arvid Lindblad. Opportunist move from him. Hülkenberg can't quite get past but Alex Albon putting on the handbrake and the anchor for his teammate has been passed. His position was at risk and it's been replaced. Lance Stroll on the final corner has stopped and Anthony Noges has gone into the barriers. That's why we've got a yellow flag and Kimi Antonelli is just coming up to the swimming pool chicane. I wonder if we're going to need at least a safety car here. We are getting a safety car. Let's have a look. Final corner. Anthony Noges. Oh got the marbles didn't Just off the racing line. Got off the marbles. Crashed at about 47 miles an hour. Front wishbone's broken as well. So you need to serve the penalty the next time you come into the pit stop. So he has not served that five second penalty for me and therefore that is another penalty for not serving the five second penalty. Because Martin you're gaining a sporting advantage on the replay. Just watch this. So he cruises in and the jack touches everything. Yeah they just go for it. So he has not. Bernie's absolutely spot on but he has not served his penalty. Staying out. Staying out. Get the tyres ready to swap. What am I doing? Safety car has gone. No one can overtake until the start finish line. But the car's alive isn't it? Yeah those tyres are cold on both cars I think there. Hamilton down the straight we go with Antonelli. The car in front to try and chase into Sainte Devote looks all a little bit cautious. Charles Leclerc is out. Charles Leclerc has gone into the barriers and that happened at the final corner. Said the tyres were cold. Did he get on the marbles? Did that cost Charles Leclerc there? But he's definitely out of his home race. We're another safety car and it's all gone wrong for Charles Leclerc. Lewis Hamilton locked up ahead of him. Where's that left front tyre? There's a bit of resurfaced tarmac on the left-hand side Martin. I'd like to see that on board again. Honestly I'm not going to take the blame. Look at the tarmac he gets on which looks like it's breaking up a little bit to be fair. Very similar to Stroll. Almost a carbon copy of Stroll. So have we got something going on on that piece of tarmac if you're a little bit wider? Oh we're going to red flag this race. They're going to red flag this race and I wonder if this is to do with the final corner. What's going on in the last corner? Looks like the track's breaking up. Yeah it is. The track is starting to break up into the last corner. I mean that's very, this circuit is pretty dangerous. Safety car exit of turn one. Look at this area now. The track all broken up. There's a hole there. Look at the amount again that the tyre picks up. So he's probably thinking and cursing the brakes. I think it might actually be more the marbles and what's caught Stroll out has caught Leclerc out in exactly the same way. I thought it was too much of a coincidence and it absolutely was. So hence the red flag. They've got to repair. They've got to do something before they get this race going again. George Russell has some very bad news. He does. A drive-through penalty for George Russell for failing to serve his initial five-second penalty correctly. They didn't wait long enough Bernie. It's a drive-through penalty. Agile's still an investigation for a safety car infringement that can soon be a drive-through as well. Now this is potentially what happened. Is that backing up too far? Yeah he's trying to make himself some space. You can't do that. Keep pushing, keep pushing. You're a lot of power. It's coming back. Our second start of the afternoon. We're racing to lap 78. It's lights out and away we go. Hamilton reacts quicker. Antonelli is away well though. And there goes Kimi Antonelli into the lead. Lewis Hamilton second. George Russell third. Pierre Gasly's ahead of Isaac Hajar. Slow start from him. He's lost two places. He's now got Oskar Piastri swarming all over him. They've really stacked up behind Russell who's trying to buy himself a little bit of space. He knows he's got a 20-second loss coming. And look at this side by side by side. Brilliant move from Hülkenberg but he tags Carlos Sainz and the Williams is out. And his 100 point scoring record here comes to an end of the restart. Hülkenberg down the inside was making up places and then Sainz was in his way just when he didn't need it. Another retirement here as Antonelli leads by a second and a half. And well, are we going to get that Williams out of the way? Yes, I think we are. But what happened at the hairpin? And watch it down the inside. Hülkenberg spies a gap. Yeah, and then Sainz is then right in his way. Contact on Sainz happens later on down at 48. Here's down the inside here. That's original contact for Carlos Sainz. Yeah, so Hülkenberg was avoiding an accident initially. Here we go again. Watch Colopinto. And there's two taps. That's why Carlos Sainz was facing the other way. He has been the fastest man on the track. He's built his way up slowly but surely. But there's been nothing slow about him. When the lights went out today, Kimi Antonelli got his foot to the floor. He survived the restarts. He survived the safety cars. He comes home to win in Monaco. Kimi Antonelli makes it five Grand Prix victories in a row. Lewis Hamilton second place for Ferrari for the second successive race. Antonelli head and shoulders above the rest in Monaco. Pierre Gasly on the road now crosses the line to take third place in the race with penalties to serve. Isaac Hajar moves ahead of him to take that third place with a steward's investigation to come. Nice work there, pal. That was a masterclass, mate. First Monaco win. Oh my god. Yeah, a bit tense at the end there, mate. A bit tense at the end but yeah, what a great job. Thank you so much, guys. The car was a beast today. My goodness, thank you so much. What a Monaco Grand Prix full of incident from start to finish. It's been won from pole by Kimi Antonelli who marches on and on at the top of the championship.