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History at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza! French driver Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) won a Formula 1 race for the first time this Sunday, in the eighth race of the world championship.
Carlos Sainz (McLaren) was second and Lance Stroll (Racing-Point) was third, in an afternoon with an unprecedented podium, marked by safe car followed by a race red flag following the Leclerc crash, a ten-second penalty for Lewis Hamilton and Antonio Giovinazzi and Ferrari for failing to finish with any cars in the top 10, for the second time in a row, after Spa, in Belgium, two weeks ago. . The current world champion finished in seventh place.
Gasly is the 109th driver in history to win a Grand Prix, in what is the first victory in 24 years for a French driver in Formula 1, after Olivier Panis in 1996. Charles Leclerc, Sebastian Vettel, Max Verstappen and Kevin Magnussen abandoned.
Vettel departure, Leclerc accident, Hamilton punishment
The emotional start was marked by bad starts from Vallteri Bottas and Max Verstappen. The Finn from Mercedes started second and fell to sixth, while the Dutch from RedBull fell from fifth to seventh. Sainz moved up to second, followed by Lando Norris, Sergio Pérez and Daniel Ricciardo. Albon also started badly and was penalized in five seconds for cutting the starting chicane.
The negative afternoon – one more – for Ferrari began when Sebastian Vettel had problems with the brakes, he went ahead in the first chicane of the sixth of the 53 laps and gave up causing the first abandonment of the race.
After 20 laps, Kevin Magnussen struggled with the car, stopping at a time when Hamilton was more than ten seconds ahead of Sainz. HE safe car entered the track due to the problems of Haas -which he abandoned- and Hamilton, like Giovinazzi, entered the pits pitlane closed.
On lap 24, Charles Leclerc ended another bad afternoon for Ferrari, which did not end with any cars competing at home. The Monegasque suffered a spectacular accident on the Parabolica curve (video below), he left and the direction of the race, after new safe car, stopped the race on lap 26 with a red flag, something that had not happened since Baku 2017, to remove the car and correct the protective barrier. Meanwhile the infringement of Hamilton and Magnussen was confirmed, both were sanctioned with a Stop going ten seconds, to complete in the first three following laps.
After the red flag, with a stop of about half an hour and all the cars guarded in the box, Gasly won the second place of Stroll and took the lead, safe until the end, when Hamilton went to serve his sentence.
On lap 31, Max Verstappen was fourth and last to drop out of the race.
The champion still reached the points, frantic end
Sainz did not give Gasly a break, but the Frenchman confirmed victory after 53 laps, at the same time as Hamilton, who had fallen to 17th and last position after completing the lap. Stop going, recovered ten places to finish seventh and delve deeper into Verstappen’s world championship gap, even though Bottas is closer now.
Lando Norris (McLaren) was fourth, Bottas (Mercedes) fifth, Ricciardo (Renault) sixth, with Esteban Ocon’s Renault scoring eighth. Kvyat (AlphaTauri) was ninth and Sergio Pérez’s Racing Point closed in the scoring zone, in tenth place. Latifi, Grosjean, Raikkonen, Russell, Albon and Giovinazzi all ran out of points.
At the head of the world championship, Hamilton has 164 points, Bottas has surpassed Verstappen and is second, with 110. The Dutchman is third, with 107. Then, Norris and Stroll, who each rose two places and add the same 57 points. Albon is sixth (48 points), Leclerc seventh with 45. Also note Gasly’s big jump from 12th to eighth place (43 points). Sainz and Ricciardo, with 41 points each, close the top 10.
