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Pierre Gasly surprisingly wins the Italian GP. The dominator of the Lewis Hamilton World Championship is 7. Ferrari falls.
The podium
- Pierre Gasly (FRA, AlphaTauri)
- 2. Carlos Sainz (ESP, McLaren)
- 3. Lance Stroll (CAN, Racing-Point)
- Out: Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Kevin Magnussen, Sebastian Vettel.
Big applause
Pierre Gasly celebrates with his team.
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The course of the race
The 70th Monza GP was not short of entertainment. Two misses between lap 18 and 24 turned the race completely upside down. The chronic:
- Lap 18: Haas driver Kevin Magnussen has to leave the race shortly before entering the pits.
- Lap 20: Due to the Haas failure, the safety car is used. Mercedes faces leader Lewis Hamilton.
- Lap 22: Hamilton’s pit stop turns out to be a Mercedes-Bock, because the pit lane was closed. Alfa Romeo driver Antonio Giovinazzi was also illegally changing tires.
- Round 24: There is a restart.
- Lap 24: As soon as the race gets back on track, Charles Leclerc hits a bunch of tires. A nasty accident in which Monegasse survived unscathed.
- Lap 27: Red flag: the race is interrupted because the tire wall destroyed by Leclerc needs to be repaired.
- During the interruption: Lewis Hamilton and Antonio Giovinazzi receive a 10-second stop-start penalty. The GP restarts after a 27 minute outage. The lineup: Hamilton before Stroll and Gasly. Behind the two Alfa Romeo drivers, Kimi Räikkönen and Giovinazzi.
After the restart and his penalty served, Hamilton was more than 20 seconds behind leader Gasly. From 15th place, he worked his way up to 7th place. Meanwhile, Gasly kept his nerve and achieved the first big win of his career. Carlos Sainz and Lance Stroll completed the unusual podium. Notable: For the first time since 2013 and 146 races, a team other than Mercedes, Red Bull or Ferrari triumphed.
GP 90 victory was lost
Lewis Hamilton.
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Hamilton has to wait for his victory in GP 90. Michael Schumacher, who won 91 races in his career, still holds the record.
The Ferrari debacle
The race was less than 15 minutes long when Sebastian Vettel crashed into the protective polystyrene walls. “The brakes failed,” he radioed to the pits. An inglorious end to an already disastrous racing weekend for the four-time world champion and three-time Monza champion. Even in qualifying (starting position 17), the Swiss by choice had no trick.
Leclerc then completed Ferrari’s total disgrace with his crash on lap 24. As a reminder: a year ago, Monegasse celebrated victory here, with thousands of Tifosi on the road.
Vettel struggled to find the words after his departure and finally said: “It’s incredibly frustrating. I don’t know what to say. We’re just weak. It was probably a blessing that there were no spectators. “
Das Alfa-Romeo-Team
Despite the great starting position after the restart, the Hinwilers were again without points. Raikkonen was overtaken in 13th place. Giovinazzi rolled over the finish line in last place (16th).
So it goes
The Formula 1 circus travels about 300 kilometers to the south. The Tuscany GP will take place in Mugello next weekend. It will be Ferrari’s 1000th Formula 1 race.
