Kimi Antonelli won a spectacular race at Monza, going from 19th to first over the course of the grand prix.
Championship rival and teammate George Russell finished second after leading most of the race, while Max Verstappen rounded out the podium.
Rounding out the points were Lando Norris in fourth, Oscar Piastri in fifth, Lewis Hamilton in sixth, Pierre Gasly in seventh, Arvid Lindblad in eighth, Franco Colapinto in ninth and Yuki Tsunoda in 10th.
Antonelli, who originally qualified seventh, started 19th due to exceeding the season allocation of power unit components after he fit his fifth internal combustion engine, fourth control electronics and fourth energy storage.
He would make his way up to 12th on the very first lap before Charles Leclerc crashed at turn 11 and brought out the red flag.
Leclerc’s incident resulted in a 60g crash — which is 9,000 pounds of force at the peak. He made it out unscathed and walked away from the wreck under his own power.
After seven laps, Antonelli made it up to sixth and nine laps after that, on lap 16, he found himself in second behind his teammate, Russell.
Antonelli took the lead on lap 18 and would flip-flop with Russell until lap 28 when a virtual safety car came out to allow Antonelli and Verstappen in third to pit for fresh tires.
Antonelli would come out in sixth, but with much fresher tires than everyone around him, he would make quick work of the field and would comfortably take second place back on lap 37.
With 16 laps to go Antonelli was nine seconds behind Russell and once again he showed the pace that has him with a comfortable lead in the championship standings.
Three laps later, Antonelli shaved one-and-a-half seconds off Russell’s lead, and by lap 43 he was only five seconds behind the Brit.
With five laps to go, Antonelli was under a second to Russell who was on 25 lap older tires than his Italian counterpart.
On lap 50, Antonelli finally made his move, overtaking Russell into turn eight for the lead and he wouldn’t look back, putting up an almost four second lead on his teammate in just three laps.
The win at his home track would mark Antonelli’s seventh win this season and his 11th podium of the year.
The win would also boost his championship lead to 66 points from Russell and 76 points away from Hamilton in third.
Also, with a sixth-place finish on the lead lap, Hamilton has still completed every lap this season and is the only driver to do so after 13 rounds. If Hamilton keeps up his streak, it will mark just the fifth time in F1 history a driver has completed every lap in a season. It would also be his second time completing the feat.
The first driver to do so was Michael Schumacher in 2002, when he won 11 races, finished on the podium in the remaining six races and won his third of five consecutive championships to start the new millennium.
The second time was Hamilton in 2019, when he won 11 races and scored points in the remainder of the Grand Prix’s while winning his sixth World Drivers Championship.
The penultimate time this was achieved was in 2023 when Max Verstappen won a record 19 races including 10 in a row in just 22 races enroute to his third consecutive championship.
The final time was achieved in 2024 when Oscar Piastri won two races on route to fourth in the standings that year. Piastri is the only driver on the list to not win the drivers’ title when they achieved the feat.
This weekend, Formula One is back once again for round 14 at the Madring. The Madring is making its debut on the F1 calendar as it is set to fully replace Barcelona’s Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya next season.
You can tune in to Apple TV or F1 TV in the US for the race at 9:00 a.m. EST on Sunday, Sept. 13.