Kimi Antonelli’s Four-Peat Rewrites F1 History at the Canadian GP, Live on Netflix

If you tuned into the Canadian Grand Prix, you got a double feature: Kimi Antonelli stretched his win streak to four, and U.S. Netflix subscribers watched a full F1 weekend live for the first time. Not bad for a Sunday.

Mercedes vs. Mercedes, and the moment it broke

Montreal was already set up for spice as one of six Sprint weekends on the 2026 calendar. That usually means more wheel-to-wheel chances, more risk, and, yes, more team headaches. Mercedes delivered all of the above.

Antonelli spent most of the race in a nasty, elbows-out fight with his own teammate, George Russell. They traded spots, argued over the same pieces of asphalt, and generally picked up right where their Saturday Sprint tensions left off. It was great theater until it wasn’t.

The race flipped on lap 30. Russell was leading, looking strong, and then he was out. Mercedes called it a suspected power-unit problem. Brutal for Russell, massive for the title picture, and it cracked the race wide open for Antonelli, who did exactly what frontrunners do: kept it clean, controlled the pace, and banked a fourth consecutive Grand Prix win. Four in a row. That is a statement.

Podium movers and the rough afternoons

Behind Antonelli, Lewis Hamilton put in a quietly sharp drive to second for Ferrari, his second podium of the year. He nabbed it late with a pass on Max Verstappen, who still took third. Worth flagging: that’s Verstappen’s first podium of the season, which says a lot about how weird this year has been.

Elsewhere, it was pain in papaya. McLaren had a rough go of it, and Lando Norris joined Russell on the DNF list. Costly exits for both, and a reminder that Montreal punishes even small mistakes.

"Definitely the result we deserve"

That was Hamilton after the checkered flag. Hard to argue with it.

Netflix did it live in the U.S., just this once

Antonelli’s history-making run happened during a milestone weekend off the track, too. For the first time, Netflix streamed an entire F1 race weekend live in the United States: all of it, across all plans. That meant Free Practice, Sprint Qualifying, the Sprint, regular Qualifying, and Sunday’s Grand Prix were all there in real time.

Before you rearrange your subscriptions, a reality check: Apple TV is still the exclusive U.S. home for F1 coverage for the rest of the season. Netflix’s Montreal experiment was a rare one-off window, but a fascinating one if you mostly know the sport from its behind-the-scenes docuseries. Dropping in for a weekend that had teammate fireworks, McLaren headaches, and a win streak stretching to four was about as good a trial run as you could ask for.

• Kimi Antonelli wins the Canadian Grand Prix for his fourth straight F1 victory, extending his title charge.
• Mercedes infighting set the tone until lap 30, when race leader George Russell retired with a suspected power-unit issue.
• Lewis Hamilton finished P2 for Ferrari, his second podium of 2026, after a late pass on Max Verstappen.
• Max Verstappen grabbed P3, his first podium of the season.
• McLaren had a tough day; Lando Norris retired, as did Russell, in two costly DNFs.
• Montreal was one of six Sprint weekends on the 2026 calendar, amplifying the chaos across three days.
• Netflix streamed the entire Canadian GP weekend live in the U.S. for the first time, across all subscription tiers.
• Apple TV remains the exclusive U.S. home for F1 coverage throughout the season; the Netflix stream was a rare exception.

So, four on the bounce for Antonelli. Can he keep it rolling into the next round, or did Montreal just burn through his luck quota for the month? Drop your call below.