2024 Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix Highlights

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Introduction

Charles Leclerc has taken a shocking victory on the 2024 Method 1 Italian Grand Prix after utilising a daring one-stop technique to carry onto the lead, the Monegasque thrilling the Tifosi as he clinched P1 forward of the McLarens.

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After making an honest begin off the road from pole place, Lando Norris initially stayed in P1 earlier than Oscar Piastri swept previous into the second chicane later within the lap. From there, the Australian stayed out in entrance for a lot of the race.

Nonetheless, with a lot of the sphere choosing a two-stop technique, Ferrari determined to attempt a one-stop for Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, ensuing within the pair working on the entrance of the sphere within the latter levels of the race.

Birthday boy Sainz couldn’t maintain on, given his ageing tyres, with each Piastri and Norris overtaking him to maneuver into second and third. However Leclerc held out to seize an emotional win on Ferrari’s residence soil, crossing the road 2.6s forward of Piastri.

Norris claimed an additional level for setting the quickest lap as he took third, including considerably to a day the place the Briton could have hoped for extra to assist his championship bid. Sainz needed to accept fourth, whereas Lewis Hamilton – driving his final Monza race earlier than switching to Ferrari subsequent 12 months – was fifth for Mercedes.

Max Verstappen positioned sixth, and the Dutchman gained one place from his unique grid slot. The Crimson Bull managed to remain forward of Mercedes’ George Russell in seventh, whereas Sergio Perez added three factors to Crimson Bull’s tally in eighth.

It was a joyous day for Williams as Alex Albon clinched two invaluable factors in P9, and Kevin Magnussen was tenth within the Haas on what was an eventful day for the staff, with each of their drivers having acquired time penalties for separate incidents.

Fernando Alonso simply missed out on the highest 10 in P11 for Aston Martin, and Franco Colapinto crossed the road on his F1 debut in P12 for Williams. It was P13 for Daniel Ricciardo, the RB driver, having acquired two penalties within the race’s early levels.

Esteban Ocon led Alpine in 14th, placing him forward of teammate Pierre Gasly in fifteenth, and Valtteri Bottas adopted for Kick Sauber in sixteenth place.

Nico Hulkenberg ended the day down in P17 for Haas, Zhou Guanyu was 18th for Kick Sauber, and Lance Stroll was the final labeled runner for Aston Martin in P19.

Yuki Tsunoda was the only retiree from the race, having retired his RB following a collision with Hulkenberg.

Mario Isola, Motorsport Director, Pirelli:

It was a very thrilling race adopted by a implausible present from the followers. The passion of the Monza crowd is unimaginable and contagious and offers one goosebumps. Congratulations to Charles Leclerc and Ferrari, as successful this Grand Prix have to be an unimaginable feeling for them.

On the technical entrance, this was a Grand Prix that had all of it: battles on monitor between the drivers with some spectacular overtaking strikes, resembling Piastri’s on Norris and a strategic confrontation between those that had opted to cease twice and people on a one-stop.

We stated earlier than the occasion that the one-stop can be the quickest, which proved appropriate. The truth that almost all of the groups had saved two units of Hards for the race gave them the flexibleness to go together with totally different situations if mandatory. One ought to keep in mind that nobody had ample knowledge to totally consider the C3 efficiency on the totally new monitor floor.

Administration of graining was essential and doubtless affected by the monitor evolution. Preliminary evaluation of the information and the visible checks of the tyres on the finish of every stint confirmed that graining was very important within the first a part of the race, particularly on the entrance left, however much less so on the left rear, with each the Onerous and Medium, whereas within the following stints, the phenomenon was much less current. An important issue, due to this fact, was the drivers’ feeling through the race and their means to handle the tyres, particularly for many who caught with the technique that they had opted for at first, particularly the one-stop.

The day on the monitor:

At first, the bulk (14) of the drivers went with the Medium. The Hards had been chosen by the 2 Crimson Bulls, Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Esteban Ocon (Alpine), Yuki Tsunoda (Racing Bulls) and Valtteri Bottas (Sauber). Yuki Tsunoda was the one driver to not make it to the chequered flag. Of the remaining 19, 9 pitted as soon as, ten did two or extra (Stroll, three).

Daniel Ricciardo (Racing Bulls) ran the longest stint, finishing 42 laps on the Onerous. Esteban Ocon led the way in which on the Medium, working a 21-lap second stint on the C4.