Verstappen’s Italian GP victory has broken the all-time record for most consecutive F1 wins, while Red Bull also set a new record for most team wins in a row with 15, and while delighted to make further grand prix racing history, the Dutch driver hadn’t been focused on the feat. Mercedes boss Wolff has also […]
Hamilton was coming through the field on an alternate tyre strategy, attacking McLaren’s Piastri for eighth on his fresher mediums on lap 41. Hamilton passed Piastri on the inside of the second chicane, but squeezed the Australian towards the grass, his right rear tyre making contact with Piastri’s front wing. After both drivers took to […]
On lap 24 of 51, the McLaren pair came to blows at the first chicane as rookie racer Piastri re-joined the Monza track alongside earlier-stopping Norris in a dice for what was then 10th position. With Piastri on the inside at the tight first apex, the front-right of the Australian’s MCL60 glanced his team-mate’s sidepod. […]
Early in Q1, Ocon passed Norris before the Ascari chicane, and Norris then re-passed heading in Parabolica just before he started a hot lap, with the Alpine driver appearing to jink towards the McLaren as the pair turned in. After completing the lap, as he was heading back to the pits, Norris told his team […]
The Italian GP has been the scene of many chaotic qualifying sessions in F1’s recent past, with drivers playing a game of chicken trying to position themselves for a strong slipstream on Monza’s long straights. The situation got completely out of hand in 2019, when drivers were very reluctant to be the first across the […]
The Mexican got through Q1 in fifth place and was fourth in Q2 before earning fifth spot in the final session, having struggled throughout to match the pace of team-mate Max Verstappen. As the second occurrence of Pirelli’s alternative tyre allocation, with fewer sets and compulsory use of hard, medium and softs across the three […]
Sainz beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to claim the top spot on the grid for Ferrari’s home race by just 0.013s, with his team-mate Charles Leclerc only 0.054s further back in third. The Spaniard explained afterwards that although he had led FP2 and FP3 this weekend, and taken second behind Verstappen in FP1, at no […]
Gasly could not better 17th place in Saturday’s session, while his team-mate Esteban Ocon was one place and just 0.003s behind. Gasly, who finished third in the rain-affected Dutch GP last weekend, admitted that the A523 simply wasn’t fast enough on Monza’s straights. “Unfortunately, all weekend I was quite happy with the car balance, but […]
Sainz converted his practice pace into pole position at Ferrari’s home race, beating Max Verstappen by just 0.013s in a thrilling qualifying. Charles Leclerc also narrowly missed out in third, just 0.067s off pole, which sets up a Ferrari fight against Verstappen who is aiming for a record-breaking 10th consecutive F1 win. Ferrari was made to […]
While there are other high-speed tracks on the F1 calendar, the ‘Temple of Speed’ remains an outlier because so much of it is straights, and this necessitates a standalone downforce package. But the approach of teams is not uniform, as some have gone the extra mile in delivering a new package while others, perhaps limited […]