Kimi Antonelli prolonged his lead on the prime of the Formulation One drivers’ championship once more on the Monaco Grand Prix. Forward of this weekend’s Barcelona GP, the statistics closely weigh in his favour, with regards to the title race.
The 19-year-old Italian is trying to change into the youngest drivers’ champion in historical past, a document that has stood since Sebastian Vettel was topped again in 2010 on the age of 23 years and 133 days.
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Not many gave him an opportunity in opposition to George Russell in the beginning of the season, after he was dominated by the skilled British driver throughout his maiden F1 marketing campaign in 2025. Nevertheless, Antonelli with the assistance of F1’s quickest automobile, has rose to the event and marked himself as the person to beat.
Antonelli holds 66 level hole over Hamilton
After his latest string of wins, Antonelli now holds a 66 level lead on the prime of the drivers’ standings. No driver in F1 historical past has held a lead that comfy and never gone on to be topped champion on the finish of the season.
The largest comeback was in 2022 when Max Verstappen overcame a 46 level hole to Charles Leclerc to win his second drivers’ crown. In the meantime, in 2012, Sebastian Vettel got here from 44 factors behind to beat Fernando Alonso to his third title.
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The excellent news for Antonelli’s competitors is that solely six of the 22 scheduled races have performed out, that means there’s loads of time to catch up. Max Verstappen, from a later level of the season, completed simply two factors behind eventual champion Lando Norris, after being 104 factors behind earlier championship chief Oscar Piastri after the Dutch Grand Prix on the finish of August.
Photograph: Race Footage
Photograph: Race Footage
Drivers with most consecutive race wins
Antonelli moved as much as joint-eighth on the checklist of drivers with probably the most consecutive race wins in F1 historical past. This weekend, the Italian may tie Michael Schumacher’s second all-time finest document of six straight wins, which the legendary German completed between the 2000 Italian Grand Prix and the 2001 Malaysian GP.
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No driver to realize no less than 5 straight wins, has didn’t win the championship within the 12 months that they completed off that sequence of victories. The one driver who failed to take action with 4 straight wins was Lewis Hamilton throughout the 2016 season in opposition to Nico Rosberg.
The one drivers standing forward of Antonelli with probably the most consecutive wins are Max Verstappen (10), Sebastian Vettel and Verstappen once more (9), Alberto Ascari, Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg (7), and Schumacher once more on (6). The closest any of these drivers got here to dropping the championship of their respective seasons was Rosberg in 2016, beating Hamilton to the crown by simply 5 factors.
Antonelli units himself other than F1 greats
Antonelli is the one driver in F1 historical past to win their first 5 victories consecutively. He matched the document of three consecutive wins set by Damon Hill in 1993 and Mika Hakkinen in 1997-98, and now stands by himself after two additional victories.
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In the meantime, his three consecutive poles in China, Japan and Miami, put him alongside Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna as the one drivers to take their first three poles consecutively.
Schumacher, Senna, Hakkinen and Hill all turned world champions throughout their careers, and it appears to be like that Antonelli is definite to hitch that checklist, no matter whether or not it takes place this season.
His teammate Russell continues to be possible his best challenger, regardless of dropping behind Hamilton to 3rd within the championship. Russell can take inspiration from Lando Norris, who got here from 34 factors behind after Spherical 15 to win the 2025 championship.
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in Barcelona this weekend, which may give Russell a small benefit going into the race on Sunday. Russell although can take some type of hope that there’s nonetheless 16 races left this season, loads of likelihood to mount a fightback, however his likelihood is getting slimmer by the race.
