Youngest Monaco Grand Prix winners: All-time list as Antonelli threatens Lewis Hamilton record

Lewis Hamilton and Ron Dennis at McLaren in 2008 — Photo: © IMAGO

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Youngest Monaco Grand Prix winners: All-time list as Antonelli threatens Lewis Hamilton record

Antonelli could break Hamilton's record today

Graham Shaw Consultant Editor

Digital sports specialist running global brands for 30 years

Sunday 7 June 2026 09:21

Lewis Hamilton remains the youngest ever winner of the Monaco Grand Prix, but his long-standing record will come under major threat later today (Sunday June 7).

The British superstar was in just his second season in F1 when he claimed his very first victory at the most iconic race in the sport.

Hamilton was en route to a 2008 world championship with McLaren when he recovered from an early puncture to claim an incredible victory in the principality.

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Lewis was aged just 23 years, four months and 18 days when took the chequered flag on that memorable afternoon on the Cote d'Azur, but as F1 drivers get younger and younger his record is under threat on an annual basis.

The threat this year comes from the brilliant Italian teenager Kimi Antonelli, who currently leads the world championship after reeling off four race wins in succession.

On Saturday Antonelli produced a blistering lap around the tight streets of Monte Carlo to claim pole position for Mercedes, giving him a huge chance of victory a race where overtakes are unusual.

Antonelli will start from pole in Monaco.

Youngest Monaco Grand Prix winners

The current list of the youngest winners looks like this, with Hamilton just ahead of a pair of four-time Red Bull world champions in the shape of Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel:

Year	Driver	Age
2008	Lewis Hamilton	23y 4m 18d
2021	Max Verstappen	23y 7m 23d
2011	Sebastian Vettel	23y 10m 26d
1962	Bruce McLaren	24y 9m 4d
2006	Fernando Alonso	24y 9m 29d
1994	Michael Schumacher	25y 4m 12d
2005	Kimi Raikkonen	25y 7m 5d
1975	Niki Lauda	26y 2m 19d
2024	Charles Leclerc	26y 7m 10d
1966	Jackie Stewart	26y 11m 11d

Monaco Grand Prix start time and TV

Today's race gets under way at 3pm local time (2pm UK, 9am Eastern, 6am Pacific) and it will be broadcast live in the UK by Sky Sports F1.

If you are watching in the US, Apple TV now has the rights for F1 and there is a free trial for new viewers.

Written by

Graham Shaw - Consultant Editor

Digital sports leader with 30 years of senior level experience running global brands. Built sportinglife.com to be a behemoth in the UK as well as being in charge of the Planet Sport network of sites including planetf1.com, football365.com, teamtalk.com and planetrugby.com. Then grew goal.com to be the world's biggest soccer website in 18 languages and 37 territories. Was GM of Portals for Perform Group (now DAZN) with overall responsibility for sportingnews.com, spox.de and voetbalzone.nl.

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