Formula 1 2024 Italian Grand Prix results

Max Verstappen and the two Mercedes drivers were involved in separate collisions as Formula 1’s 2024 Italian Grand Prix commenced, which explained the Red Bull driver’s call for a Lewis Hamilton penalty.Verstappen had started seventh and behind the Mercedes pair on Sunday, with George Russell in the lead W15 actually lining up third and in a position to race the early leading McLarens and ...

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Oscar Piastri has hit out at Lance Stroll after losing time behind the backmarking Aston Martin in Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix.Piastri was chasing Charles Leclerc’s leading Ferrari after making a second pitstop while the Monegasque was attempting to eke out tyre life on a one-stop strategy.After losing some two seconds when attacking and overtaking Carlos Sainz, Piastri still had an ...

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The Temple of Speed has just concluded its latest sermon, a cautionary tale of not hedging one's bets and expecting to control a race that sat on a strategic knife-edge. It all came to pass at this year's edition of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza - Formula 1's 74th visit to the circuit north-west of Milan.A McLaren 1-2 on the grid rather set expectations that the race would be a breeze for the ...

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While McLaren is odds-on favourite to claim the constructors' title, its unwillingness to shift its weight towards Norris may well cost him the drivers' title against Max Verstappen. Has McLaren left it too late or can Lando Norris still win it? Our F1 writers have their say.Jonathan Noble - Sacrificing Norris' chances on the altar of fairness may lead to regretTo twist a famous phrase, the best ...

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Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff believes McLaren needs to decide if it will throw its full backing behind Lando Norris in his fight for the title.Norris qualified on pole for Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix but was overtaken in turn four on the opening lap by team-mate Oscar Piastri as Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc ultimately went on to take an emotional victory in front of the tifosi.With reigning ...

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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says his drivers are trapped in a “vicious circle” with the balance problems of their RB20 Formula 1 car.World championship leader Max Verstappen fears that he is now going to lose this year’s title as a result of Red Bull’s difficulties with its 2024 F1 challenger.After finishing a lowly sixth in the Italian GP, Verstappen said that development ...

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McLaren has offered the firmest hint yet that it is now ready to throw its full support behind Lando Norris’s Formula 1 title bid, despite having been reluctant to introduce team orders so far.Amid a growing reality that championship rivals Red Bull and Max Verstappen are on the back foot, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella feels that the moment has come for his team to ensure opportunities to ...

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Kevin Magnussen has been awarded a one-race ban for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after reaching the maximum amount of superlicence points. The Haas driver pulled off a number of controversial moves on other drivers this season, including gaining five points at the Miami GP for an incident in the Sprint race where he was deemed to have left the track and gained a lasting advantage and a crash with ...

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McLaren wants to review Oscar Piastri's first-lap pass on Lando Norris in Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix before deciding if it complied with its 'Papaya Rules' code of conduct.While Norris made a great getaway from pole position, his race turned at the second chicane when Piastri made an aggressive move around the outside – costing his team-mate momentum, which Ferrari's Charles Leclerc ...

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Lando Norris feels his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri "got way too close for comfort" on his lap-one pass at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix.Norris started from pole ahead of Piastri but while defending his lead into the first chicane, the Briton's compromised exit out of the corner left him vulnerable to Piastri on the run towards the second chicane.The Australian pulled off an audacious move ...

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Pierre Gasly called upon the Italian Grand Prix stewards to reverse Kevin Magnussen's one-race Formula 1 ban after their incident led to the Dane reaching the maximum penalty points on his superlicence.The two made a small degree of contact after going into the Variante della Roggia side by side, which led to neither driver making the corner. Magnussen later passed Gasly on his run to ninth at the ...

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Max Verstappen warned "both championships are not realistic" now after Red Bull turned its once dominant Formula 1 car "into a monster".Verstappen struggled to qualify higher than seventh on Saturday and failed to make much progress on Sunday, moving up just one position to finish ahead of Mercedes man George Russell in sixth.The Dutchman's margin to victory was especially damning, conceding ...

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Oscar Piastri has conceded missing out on victory at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix "hurts a lot" after Ferrari's cunning strategy led Charles Leclerc to the top.The McLaren driver squeezed past team-mate Lando Norris at turn four on the opening lap and set about building a lead to seal his second win in F1.Having established an advantage in the middle stint of the 53-lap event, Piastri was asked ...

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Kevin Magnussen has been handed a Formula 1 ban for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after reaching 12 penalty points on his superlicence following his Monza clash with Pierre Gasly.The Dane was hit with a 10-second penalty for contact with Pierre Gasly at the Variante della Roggia chicane, as the stewards had deemed him wholly to blame for the incident.Read Also:


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Charles Leclerc delighted Ferrari's home crowd in a strategic triumph to beat Oscar Piastri to victory at the Italian Grand Prix, after hanging on to the tyres in a one-stop strategy.Leclerc managed to hold on from a rapidly closing Piastri, who had much fresher tyres thanks to a two-stop strategy, and crossed the line with a 2.884-second lead - the crowd becoming more audibly ecstatic in the ...

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Fernando Alonso says Aston Martin is lacking pure performance which tyre savviness cannot make up for at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix.Aston had its poorest qualifying result since the Austrian Grand Prix at Monza, with Alonso failing to reach Q3 in 11th place while Lance Stroll was out in Q1 in 17th position.As a consequence, Aston will struggle to maintain its points-scoring streak after four ...

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Audi’s Formula 1 chief operating and chief technical officer Mattia Binotto admits that the current Sauber squad’s performances are something it “cannot accept.”While German manufacturer Audi has been working on building the foundations it needs for its official arrival as a works team in 2026, it has not gone amiss that the results of the Sauber team it is taking over are far from ...

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McLaren thinks it has understood why Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri made poor getaways in Zandvoort and is hopeful it has addressed the underlying causes for the Italian Grand Prix.Starting from first and third on the Dutch Grand Prix grid respectively, Norris and Piastri made equally sluggish starts that saw each lose a position.Norris eventually had the grip and top-speed advantage to re-pass ...

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Spanish banking giant Santander and Ferrari will conclude their sponsorship agreement at the end of 2024 as the reported $60 million-a-year deal comes to an end.A three-year contract was agreed in 2021, renewing a partnership that had initially run from 2010 to 2017.As well as running its logo on the Ferrari F1 cars, caps and race suits, Santander was also on board the team's 499P Le Mans ...

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Red Bull remains baffled by the balance problems that left it struggling in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, but one thing it knows it got wrong was wing levels.While the rear wing concept that it has used at Monza looks intriguing – with its wavy top flap quite extreme – it is not actually the kind of bespoke concept needed for Monza’s demands.And perhaps nothing proves that more than ...

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McLaren locked out the front row at Monza, with Lando Norris taking pole ahead of team-mate Oscar Piastri.Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz qualified fourth and fifth on team's home turf, behind the top Mercedes of George Russell.Red Bull struggled for pace on Saturday, with world champion Max Verstappen ending up a distant seventh - 0.695s down on polesitter Norris.What time does ...

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Red Bull's Max Verstappen says he has never experienced the dramatic balance swing he suffered in Monza qualifying, which saw him go significantly slower in Q3.Verstappen could only manage seventh in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, nearly seven tenths behind McLaren's polesitter Lando Norris, as wild car balance swings made the three-time champion four tenths slower than he was in Q2 ...

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Lando Norris says McLaren can now go 20km/h faster down Monza's straights compared to its 2023 Formula 1 car after topping Italian Grand Prix qualifying.Norris claimed his fifth career F1 pole at Monza, with team-mate Oscar Piastri second ahead of Mercedes' George Russell, the Ferrari pair and Lewis Hamilton.Max Verstappen was the lead Red Bull driver in seventh, his lowest qualifying at Monza ...

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Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton says he is "absolutely furious" with himself for wasting a shot at pole during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix.The Monza Q3 shootout was one of F1's closest qualifying sessions this season, with McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari all vying for pole while Red Bull failed to qualify higher than the fourth row.McLaren's Lando Norris ultimately backed up his ...

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George Russell was pleased to qualify third for the Italian Grand Prix given his lack of track time over the weekend, in the wake of new Mercedes recruit Andrea Kimi Antonelli's FP1 shunt at Parabolica.The Briton gave up his seat for Antonelli, as per Formula 1's rookie driver FP1 rules, and the Italian rookie impressed across his lap and a half before bringing his session to an abrupt end with a ...

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Christian Horner says Red Bull "simply doesn't understand" why it qualified so poorly at the Italian Grand Prix, admitting "something clearly isn't working" on its Formula 1 cars.Verstappen and Perez had looked competitive and on the pace of fellow frontrunners McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari until Saturday afternoon's final qualifying round, in which its three rival teams diced for pole while the ...

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After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Read Also:


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Lando Norris led a McLaren 1-2 in qualifying for Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix, with points leader Max Verstappen qualifying down in seventh.George Russell took third for practice pacesetter Mercedes.Oscar Piastri and Verstappen are set to see the stewards post-qualifying due to an incident in Q1 where the McLaren was released into the Red Bull's path in the pits and Verstappen had to slam on the ...

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Former Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg believes that Andrea Kimi Antonelli has the talent to star in Formula 1, but notes his preparation in his 2024 Formula 2 season "is anything but ideal".Antonelli was announced on Saturday as a Mercedes driver for 2025 to partner George Russell at the team, a day after his brief showing in FP1 for the team - where he crashed at Parabolica after overdoing it on ...

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The 2024 F1 season is hotting up, with seven different winners in the first 16 races of the year and four in the same number of races. Max Verstappen currently leads the championship with 303 points, ahead of Lando Norris in second with 241 points.Over half of the grid’s contracts are set to expire at the end of the year and it looks likely that the summer break will be packed full of ...

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Lewis Hamilton headlined the final free practice session of the Italian Grand Prix weekend, 0.093 seconds clear of Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate George Russell.In a closely contested session, in which the top six were all within a quarter of a second, the two Mercedes cars displaced Charles Leclerc from the leaderboard's zenith in their final fresh soft-tyre runs in preparation for qualifying.Amid ...

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Andrea Kimi Antonelli has beaten Jack Doohan in taking race car number 12 next season, after both set their sights on it.Under Formula 1's current sporting regulations, drivers have to choose a permanent number that they keep for their entire F1 career.Numbers only become available if a driver's F1 career is deemed to have ended after two full seasons out of grand prix racing.The number 12 has ...

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Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff says he decided Andrea Kimi Antonelli would be Lewis Hamilton's successor "five minutes after" he learned of the Briton's Ferrari move.On Saturday, Mercedes finally announced that 18-year-old Antonelli will be promoted to a race seat next year alongside George Russell as Hamilton's replacement.The announcement brings a close to months of speculation over ...

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McLaren continues to pile the pressure on its Formula 1 rivals, as it unleashed another clutch of upgrades at the Italian Grand Prix.While some of these changes are track-specific for the high-speed characteristics at Monza, others point to longer-term efforts aimed at eking out ever more performance from the MCL38.The most obvious changes for Monza always revolve around a reduction in drag, with ...

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Mercedes is working to address a severe seat heat issue at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix after its race drivers complained about the problem in the FP2 session it led.The German manufacturer has dominated the early storylines from Monza with Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s crash and 2025 promotion announcement, but it was also affected by overheating seats on Friday.Mercedes has been working to address ...

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Finally, it's out: Andrea Kimi Antonelli will race for Mercedes as Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton's replacement in the 2025 Formula 1 season.In signing with the Silver Arrows squad, Antonelli breaks a long tradition, which stretches back 70 years to 1954 and the season Karl Kling made his world championship F1 debut for Mercedes alongside the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio and co.Their career paths ...

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Williams Formula 1 team boss James Vowles has apologised to Mick Schumacher for remarks he made about him not being “special.”In the wake of Williams electing to take rookie Franco Colapinto rather than the more experienced Schumacher as replacement for Logan Sargeant, Vowles spoke to media on Friday at Monza to explain the reasons behind the call.And in remarks that gained a lot of traction ...

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Mercedes has finally confirmed that Andrea Kimi Antonelli will be Lewis Hamilton’s replacement in Formula 1 next year.The young Italian had been widely tipped for the seat alongside George Russell for several months, despite the German manufacturer’s flirting with Max Verstappen.And while Antonelli has faced perhaps more struggles in Formula 2 this season than anticipated, Mercedes is clear ...

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Imagine cobbling a world-class race circuit together in 110 days? Back in 1922, that’s precisely how long it took to construct the Autodromo Nazionale Monza. And it wasn’t terribly long after the 3.6-mile (5.793-km) circuit arrived that the first Italian Grand Prix was held there. Since 1950, this 11-turn track has been the home of every F1 Italian Grand Prix (with a one-year gap in 1980, when ...

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The 2024 Italian Grand Prix is baking – 3°C hotter (at 34°C ambient) than in the 2023 Monza race so far, with a near 10°C accompanying rise on track temperatures. This may well combine with the major track surface change here to significantly alter race strategy.Again this term, four Formula 1 teams seem to be in the hunt – based on what we’ve seen so far in Monza practice. Their ...

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