Starting nineteenth on the grid, Mercedes’ teenage sensation carved through the chaos to become the first home winner at the Temple of Speed since 1966.
Monza does not usually indulge sentimentality; it demands cold mechanical compromise, slipstream maths, and an appetite for late braking at two hundred miles per hour.
The afternoon began amid high drama when an early crash from Charles Leclerc brought out a Lap 5 red flag, scattering the grandstands into stunned silence.
By Lap 18, the unthinkable had materialised. Antonelli had arrived on the gearbox of his Mercedes teammate, lunging down the inside of the Rettifilo chicane to wrest the race lead…
Starting nineteenth on the grid, Mercedes’ teenage sensation carved through the chaos to become the first home winner at the Temple of Speed since 1966.