BARCELONA – Lewis Hamilton celebrated an emotional and historic first grand prix victory for Ferrari on Sunday to end Kimi Antonelli’s five-race sequence of success and become, at 41, Formula One’s oldest winner since Australian Jack Brabham in 1970.
The Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix triumph was the Briton’s first win since Belgium in 2024 -- 41 races ago when he was at Mercedes — his record seventh in Spain at the Circuit de Catalunya and 106th of the seven-time world champion’s extraordinary ?career.
Italian Antonelli, the 19-year-old championship leader for Mercedes, retired five laps from the end with an electrical shutdown while in second place and saw his lead over ?Hamilton slashed ?to 41 points.
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