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“For the love of God. I can’t believe it. It’s crazy.” Pierre Gasly was on the moon after his sensational triumph at the turbulent Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Not surprising, as it was the 24-year-old’s first Formula 1 victory, and also the first for AlphaTauri, the Italian team that, like Red Bull, belongs to billionaire Dietrich Mateschitz.
Gasly beat out future Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz Jr. (Esp / McLaren) and Lance Stroll (Can) of the Racing Point team sponsored by the Mondsee BWT water purifier. You could have made a lot of money with a tip on this podium. It was the first Grand Prix since Hungary 2012 in which neither Mercedes, Ferrari nor Red Bull were in the top three.
Leclerc was lucky in misfortune
The usual suspects ended up on the losing ground. The “Silver Arrows” turned black this time: Valtteri Bottas (Fin) qualified as the best Mercedes driver in only fifth place, world champion Lewis Hamilton had to settle for seventh after a stop-start penalty . For Ferrari, the home race – it was the 999th Grand Prix in the history of the Scuderia – ended, as feared, in disaster (“Salto nullo”).
Sebastian Vettel said goodbye early, Charles Leclerc was uninjured after a heavy crash at the Parabolica, which resulted in a 21-minute break in the race. After the reboot, the headlines belonged to others. First up, Gasly, who had been solved by Red Bull Racing the year before and who reported impressively. “Of course we benefit from the red flag, but that doesn’t diminish my joy at all,” said Gasly, the first winner of the French Grand Prix since Olivier Panis in Monaco in 1996.
Vettel, who won Toro Rosso at Monza for his predecessor AlphaTauri in 2008, this time would have liked to trade with Gasly. After a few laps, Quali-17 arrived. the brake line explodes. “I mog nimma,” Vettel tested at ORF in the Austrian dialect.
