F1 Italian GP: Verstappen romps to victory, Norris second after McLaren swaps positions

Max Verstappen produced a vintage display of dominance at the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix with a commanding win over Lando Norris, who was at the centre of a McLaren team orders kerfuffle following a slow pitstop.
Norris, who had given up his place in the McLaren pitstop queue to team-mate Oscar Piastri after the two went long into the race on medium tyres, and he then suffered with a slow …Keep reading
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Why are so few F1 Italian GP wins secured from pole?

Pierre Gasly, Daniel Ricciardo, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, winners of the past five grands prix at Monza, have something in common besides the obvious fact of being Formula 1 drivers who have won the Italian GP.
None of them started from pole position.
Indeed, races won from pole are in the minority at Monza, which has hosted a world championship grand prix every year bar one since …Keep reading
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From monster to fastest F1 lap ever: The key factors in Verstappen and Red Bull’s turnaround

Twelve months ago, the world of Formula 1 still looked very different in many ways. Max Verstappen led the championship with a sizeable margin, trying to drag an inferior car across the line for his fourth world title. Oscar Piastri had only one Grand Prix victory to his name, while Helmut Marko had called the situation at Red Bull “alarming” for the first time a week prior to the Italian GP …Keep reading
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Strategy corner: The variations giving teams hope in a constrained F1 Italian GP

When Monza was resurfaced ahead of last year’s Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, it prompted a degree of conservatism; the McLarens, for instance, opted for a two-stop strategy and stuck to it. It did not know that Ferrari was about to rock its world by pursuing a one-stopper.
Pirelli believes that a one-stop will be the best scenario this year too. The expected level of graining has not been …Keep reading
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Niki Lauda’s first F1 title 50 years ago, in his own words

Fifty years ago on this day, Niki Lauda won his first Formula 1 world title with third place in Monza. The tifosi celebrated their hero, with Clay Regazzoni giving them a home victory as the cherry on the cake.
In 1975, Lauda and Ferrari set new standards in F1. The Austrian ended an 11-year title drought for the Scuderia and laid the foundation for a new era of success, which is not dissimilar …Keep reading
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WEC: Kubica puts Ferrari on COTA pole

WEC: Kubica puts Ferrari on COTA pole

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An ultimate lap of 1:57.665s in the Hyperbole session was good enough for the 24 Hours of Le Mans winner to take pole at the track he and the #83 crew won at 12 months ago.

The earlier qualifying session to discover the top ten that went through to the Hyperpole shootout saw Proton Competition Porsche driver Nicolas Varrone lead the way on a 1:58.155s after a thrilling session in damp but drying conditions.

In LMGT3 the #88 Proton Competition Ford Mustang driven by Giammarco Levorato clinched the top spot after he peaked on a time of 2m07.645.

The #88 car only made the cut from qualifying in to Hyperpole after the #87 Akkodis ASP Lexus was excluded after Petru Umbrarescu was penalised for taking the chequered flag twice in the qualifying session

Proton Competition also made it a 1-2 for Ford Mustang on home soil as the #77 car with Ben Tuck aboard lapped just 0.018s off Levorato’s ultimate pace.

Yasser Shahin in the #31 The Bend Team WRT BMW topped the initial qualifying session with a time of 2m12.241s, a huge 1.130s ahead of the opposition.

The race is schedule to go green at 13.00 local time tomorrow.

 

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The special radio message hinting at the key to Verstappen’s Italian GP pole

To the surprise of many, Max Verstappen grabbed his fifth pole-position of the Formula 1 season at the same track he had described the Red Bull car as “a monster” just 12 months ago.
So how have Verstappen and the Milton Keynes-based team been able to tame that monster and complete the fastest lap in F1 history?
“We have obviously learned and understood quite a lot since last year,” …Keep reading
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As Piastri tows Norris, when will McLaren’s F1 title rivals stop playing nice?

“If you can help Lando, if you can tow Lando up to Turn 4, but just make sure we don’t impede – gap three,” Piastri’s race engineer Tom Stallard requested at the end of Q2.
Oscar Piastri had just finished his final lap to book a place in Q3, while Lando Norris was still under big pressure to deliver.
In what he admitted had been a messy qualifying until that point, Norris had to abort an …Keep reading
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Where Verstappen’s fastest-ever F1 lap fits in with the all-time greats

For a minute or so on Saturday afternoon at Monza, Lando Norris was not only provisional polesitter for the Italian Grand Prix, but also a record-breaker: his 1m18.869s lap meant an average speed of 264.423km/h, faster than Lewis Hamilton’s 264.362km/h, set during qualifying for the 2020 race here.
Then Max Verstappen went faster still, with a 1m18.792s lap: 264.681km/h. Another new …Keep reading
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