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

Antonelli and Hamilton in Canada — Photo: © IMAGO

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

Antonelli smashed an 18-year-old Hamilton record

Graham Shaw Consultant Editor

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Sunday 7 June 2026 17:59

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Kimi Antonelli is now the youngest ever winner of the F1 Monaco Grand Prix after smashing an 18-year-old Lewis Hamilton record.

The 19-year-old Italian roared to a sensational victory in the principality in June 2026 and fittingly it was the previous record holder Hamilton who followed him home in second place after a drama-packed afternoon.

Hamilton, like Antonelli, had been in just his second season in F1 when he claimed his very first victory at the most iconic race in the sport.

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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.

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.

Hamilton was just 23 when he won in Monaco in 2008.

Youngest Monaco Grand Prix winners

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

Year	Driver	Age
2026	Kimi Antonelli	19y 9m 13d
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