Antonelli becomes the first driver in F1 history to take his first four wins at successive events, Hamilton takes an 11th podium finish in Montreal and the polesitter fails to score in Canada for the first time in 18 years. Here are the facts and statistics from the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix!
ANTONELLI WINS THE 2026 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX
Kimi Antonelli took his fourth Formula 1 win at the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix. He became the first driver in the sport’s history to take all of his first four victories at successive weekends.
Antonelli became the 16th driver to record as many as four wins in a row. The other 15 drivers who recorded four or more wins in a row have all been crowned World Champions.
This was the first time in 2026 that Antonelli has finished in a better position than where he started. It was the first time he won a Grand Prix having not started from pole position. In the last 15 race weekends, the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix and the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix are the only times that he has gained places from where he started.
Antonelli secured the fastest lap for the third time in the last four race weekends.
Mercedes continued their record of finishing on the podium at every Canadian Grand Prix since 2013.
ON THE PODIUM
Lewis Hamilton recorded his 11th podium finish at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve – but this was the first time he finished second in the Canadian Grand Prix.
Hamilton is now one top three finish away from equalling Michael Schumacher’s record of 12 podium finishes in Montreal.
This was Hamilton’s best Grand Prix result to date with Ferrari – and the first time he has finished in the top two since the 2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Hamilton was voted Driver Of The Day, winning the award for the 20th time in his career. It was the first time he won the vote since the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix.
Finishing third, Max Verstappen became the eighth driver to record a podium finish in as many as 11 consecutive Formula 1 seasons.
This was the first podium secured by a car powered by Red Bull Ford Powertrains.
This was the fifth year in a row that Verstappen has finished in the top three at the Canadian Grand Prix.
IN THE POINTS
Charles Leclerc finished fourth in the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix. With both Ferraris scoring and George Russell retiring, Ferrari are now the only team to see both cars score in every Grand Prix to date this season.
This was the first time since 2019 that both Ferraris finished in the top four at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Only four drivers completed every lap of the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix – the fewest since three drivers completed every lap in the 2021 Dutch Grand Prix.
Isack Hadjar finished fifth, recording the second-best result of his career to date. It is bettered only by his podium finish at the 2025 Dutch Grand Prix.
This was the first top five finish for a Red Bull driver other than Max Verstappen since Sergio Perez finished fourth in the 2024 Miami Grand Prix.
For the second race weekend in a row, Franco Colapinto recorded a career-best Grand Prix result, finishing sixth.
With Pierre Gasly also finishing in the points, this was Alpine’s second double-points-scoring weekend of the season, after the Chinese Grand Prix.
The Miami Grand Prix, in which he retired, is the only Grand Prix of the year so far at which Gasly has failed to score a point.
Gasly equalled his best-ever Canadian Grand Prix result, having last finished eighth here in 2019.
With seventh place in the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix, Liam Lawson equalled his best result of the season so far. He also finished seventh at the Chinese Grand Prix.
Lawson recorded the best Canadian Grand Prix result for the Red Bull junior team since Jean-Eric Vergne finished sixth in 2013.
Carlos Sainz finished ninth for the third time in the last four races.
Sainz is the only driver who has finished every Grand Prix to date in 2026 in a better position than where he started it.
Ollie Bearman finished tenth, recording his third top ten finish of the season – his first since the Chinese Grand Prix.
This was only the third time – after 2017 and 2025 – that a Haas driver scored a point at the Canadian Grand Prix.
THE OTHER FINISHERS
Finishing in 11th place on his third start of the season, the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix was the first time this year that Oscar Piastri did not finish on the podium in a race which he completed.
As Piastri finished 11th and Lando Norris retired, this was the eighth time in the last ten Canadian Grand Prix weekends that neither McLaren driver scored a point.
Esteban Ocon finished 14th in the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix. It was the first time he failed to finish within the points-paying positions in his seven visits to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
With Lance Stroll finishing 15th and Fernando Alonso retiring, this was the first Canadian Grand Prix in which the Silverstone-based team failed to score a point since 2012.
THE RETIREES
On the weekend that he equalled Ralf Schumacher for the second-most starts with Williams, Alex Albon was taken out of the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix in an incident with Oscar Piastri. This was his second non-finish of the year, following his DNS at the Chinese Grand Prix.
This was Albon’s third consecutive retirement in the Canadian Grand Prix.
Fernando Alonso retired from the race, recording his third DNF of the 2026 season. The Miami Grand Prix remains the only race this season which both Aston Martin drivers have finished.
George Russell failed to finish the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix, recording his first retirement since the 2024 British Grand Prix. It was also the first time that the polesitter failed to finish a race since then.
This was the first time that the Canadian Grand Prix polesitter failed to finish the race since 2008.
Russell led 21 laps of the race before his retirement. During that stint, Britain became the first nation to have led as many as 20,000 Grand Prix laps in Formula 1’s history.
As well as ending the fourth-longest finishing streak in F1 history, Russell’s retirement also ended a 20-race streak of points-scoring races for the Mercedes driver.
Lando Norris retired from the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix, recording his second non-finish of the season after his non-start in China.
This was the second year in a row that Norris failed to finish in Montreal. His second place here in 2024 remains the only time that he has scored points in his six appearances at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
Sergio Perez recorded his first retirement since his final appearance with Red Bull at the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Arvid Lindblad failed to start the 2026 Canadian Grand Prix due to a clutch issue, recording the first DNS of his career. It’s the first time he’s failed to finish in his five Grand Prix starts to date.
Lindblad became the first driver to record a DNS in the Canadian Grand Prix since Patrick Tambay in 1986.