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How about that for your Italian GP as a Ferrari driver? If the pressure of trying to provide for its most famous team and the most well-known fans in motorsport in their house event wasn’t enough to contend with, Charles Leclerc was confronted with a persistent dual Mercedes challenge as first Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas bid to take the victory away from him.
On a course where the high speeds and braking zones leave little room for error, Leclerc made a couple of mistakes but only about withstood everything – particularly after the first stops once Hamilton ratcheted up the dial to’Hammertime’ in his Mercedes. Leclerc’s drive was called »challenging but vibrant » from Mercedes’ Toto Wolff and it was the prior quality that the child took directly into the border on many events, together with the stewards offering him a one-time warning regarding his driving when he squeezed Hamilton in the Roggia chicane.
Ruthless? Yes. But totally impressive too to get a motorist maturing and improving in front of the planet’s eyes. As world champion Nico Rosberg said during Sky F1’s post-race policy: »Now is the kind of drive in which he revealed he can, and likely will, be a Ferrari world champion in the next few years »
Rating out of ten: 9.5
Valtteri Bottas came away from Monza marginally closer to Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers’ Championship, but did have a chance to do a bit more damage in those last dozen laps when he shot on Mercedes’ challenge to Leclerc?
« I tried everything I could, » reflected Bottas. « Always when I got close I began to fight more in the corners. We had to get so near overtaken them since they are so fast on the straight – there wasn’t any chance today. »
A small braking miscue overdue on at the chicane effectively finished any last hope and Bottas crossed the line that a tantalising 0.8 seconds behind the victorious Ferrari. But, Overall, Monza was a good weekend to Bottas, the Finn right behind Hamilton in the farcically jeopardized authoritarian and then ultimately ahead from the race following a very long first stint and subsequently his team-mate’s mistake.
Rating from ten: 8
Small margins cost Lewis Hamilton a Monza win here. That marginally lost momentum behind Kimi Raikkonen’s spinning Alfa Romeo in the Parabolica on the only Q3 runs that depended in qualifying, and then that moment on lap 23 of the race in the next chicane if Leclerc proceeded across to cover the Mercedes and Hamilton took to the run-off. But, as Hamilton acknowledged it was Ferrari’s and Leclerc weekend.
After a thrillingly-sustained but thwarted attack on Leclerc, Hamilton finally dropped from moment by running directly on in the chicane, but did gain one lost point back using the fastest lap late on following another stop for tyres.
Rating from ten: 8
A leading performance from Daniel Ricciardo to claim the Renault’s best effect because they bought back their older Enstone team almost four decades ago. The Australian has been a permanent presence in the timesheet’s top five from final practice onwards and took complete benefit of the RS19’s remarkable low-downforce rate because of his joint-best Monza outcome.
Although Ricciardo did fall underneath Nico Hulkenberg’s sister car at the beginning, the Australian was straight ahead by lap five and subsequently took fourth a lap later when Sebastian Vettel fell his Ferrari at Ascari. Ricciardo ended up beating Hulkenberg to complete a work.
Rating out of ten: 9
He wasn’t really about his team-mate’s pace this weekend, however Nico Hulkenberg played a full part in Renault’s double top-five finish and helped breathe drunk energy in their 2019 season.
Hulkenberg is now into his final three weeks at Enstone, naturally, but he’ll have done his hopes of labour elsewhere on the grid no harm whatsoever with a solid drive . The German’s very first lap – when he overtook Vettel and Ricciardo – established his personal race emphasize.
Rating out of ten: 8
An eventful F1 debut of Speed around the Temple for Red Bull’s new crawl. Alex Albon lost ground at the start, came through, and then dropped down when he ran wide through the gravel in the very first Lesmo, in the end of a duel with Carlos Sainz that had started with a magnificent late-braking move out of the Red Bull about the McLaren at the second chicane.
« Unfortunately, we didn’t have the speed on the straights to overtake so that I needed to do my manoeuvres on the corners, » said the youngster. « That led to a lot of side by side actions and at one point I only lost a little too much traction going that broad so it began to get messy. » A afterwards five-second punishment for the illegal pass on Kevin Magnussen added to Albon’s complex afternoon, but he came through strongly in the final stint and finished up directly on Hulkenberg’s tail
Rating out of ten: 7
A strong drive and an opportunistic plan from Racing Point saw Perez profit 11 positions on Sunday and fasten several crucial points for the group’s constructors’ combat. Power problems in qualifying had dropped the Mexican out in Q1 and, after dropping another place on the grid for a change of motor to Mercedes’ previous spec, a top-eight end would have appeared a long shot.
But Perez did exactly everything he does best: racing solidly and always to move into 11th place by lap 11 and then jumping into the pits for his halt under the Virtual Safety Car. From there on, Perez overtook Giovinazzi and then maintained a Verstappen in bay for the last 10 laps.
Rating out of ten: 8
The previous two race times in Spa and Monza have not quite been what Verstappen has become accustomed to, however he still drove well here in order to conquer initial a back-of-the-grid start and then a crisis lap-one pit-stop for fixes to maintain some helpful points in eighth.
« I have front wing hurt under breaking Turn One as everybody slowed up and I clipped Sergio’s back restructuring, » Max explained. « Then we pitted for a new front wing and the race was still on as I had really very excellent speed in fresh air » Even though the timing of his stop did not really work out nicely with the VSC, Verstappen worked his way back.
Rating from ten: 7.5
The very first race in the GP Antonio Giovinazzi, for 2 decades operate to what stands and was rightly happy with his weekend as the best finish of his career so far. Together with Kimi Raikkonen crashing from Q3 and falling to the back of the area, Giovinazzi led the charge of Alfa Romeo and coped with all the duty, pipping Lando Norris to ninth place.
« It was a difficult race, but a whole great deal of our work was rewarded, particularly after Spa, » said Giovinazzi.
Rating out of ten: 7.5
Much like Verstappen and Pierre Gasly, Lando Norris knew on his birth in Monza he was going to stand up against it because of engine shift penalties, thus there was for the Englishman a stage a reward for this efforts. « We have a bit unlucky: we boxedwe had the undercut on Perez, however then the Virtual Safety Car came out and that he got a bit lucky to stay ahead and went on to complete at P7, » clarified Norris.
« I’m not suggesting we definitely would have ended there, because I think they still had greater speed compared to individuals, but we could have finished better without the VSC. » Tenth certaintly isn’t a replacement for this cruelly-lost fifth from Spa the week but it has the Englishman running following the summer break and back up.
Rating out of ten: 7
Might it not been for the Racing Point of Lance Stroll to the exit of the Ascari chicane, Pierre Gasly asserted he would have finished in the points from some 17th, as opposed to just outside in 11th. The Frenchman has a stage that is literal being forced into the bud he had been running of Perez, who went on to finish seventh
Rating from ten: 6
« I am fairly upset with him for what occurred, » said Lance Stroll of Sebastian Vettel, whose unforced twist and unkind return to the track at Ascari unfortunately coincided with then-seventh-placed Racing Point arriving during that fast chicane. Forced into a twist, Stroll was subsequently penalised himself – so, presumed driver and team – if he rejoined the trail himself. « It’s only a disaster really. I could not view Pierre: I was just trying to eliminate the racing line and off from the dangerous position Vettel forced me , » added a frustrated Canadian. He ended up 12th.
Rating from ten: 7
A cent for Sebastian Vettel’s ideas as Leclerc took the acclaim of the Tifosi on the most atmospheric podium of F1 as a an Italian GP race victor for Ferrari. Vettel, yet to stand Monza’s very best step for the home group, had been frustrated after qualifying and seemed simply downcast in his interviews after the race, confessing he’d summoned through his own mistake and then did not find the oncoming Stroll from the clash that really wrecked his day. On a weekend that turned to the Ferrari celebration, Vettel and the role he’d have wanted could not play with.
Rating from ten: 5
George Russell could be proud of his Monza performance. Fourteenth, excluding the race at Germany, equals his best finish in F1 – and also at a track which Williams said prior to the race would be one of the most difficult of the season. Russell dropped behind Robert Kubica in the beginning however, comfortably outpaced his team-mate then, as has been the case this year and was only overtaken by Vettel in the final stages. « I think we can be quite happy, » said Russell, that has been unusually consistent this season regardless of the bad vehicle.
Rating from ten: 8
Kimi Raikkonen understood after starting from the pit-lane due to this qualifying wreck he was likely to have a day – . Raikkonen started the race to the inappropriate chemical and was given a punishment for it, and he never really recovered from this. Looking at the pace of their Alfa Romeo, along with the drivers who started from the back, Raikkonen should have finished in the points. « Well that was a s*** weekend, » he explained. « Looking forward to Singapore, as it can not get worse. »
Rating from ten: 5
Another miserable for Romain Grosjean. The Frenchman started 13th but was dead last after the chicane. He left ground after that but then went on Lap 10 for a spin in Ascari, losing ground and flat-spotting his paychecks at the process. « Certainly something went wrong with the car today, » said Grosjean later. We’ve heard that one before.
Rating from ten: 6
Robert Kubica was up in 13th on lap one – heights for its Williams this year – day because he endured another race, but that was just a large for its Pole. « I tried my best and that’s how it is, » said Kubica, that was the only driver to become lapped twice.
Rating from ten: 6
Contrary to his team-mate, Kevin Magnussen looked to have a chance of scoring points and showed a claim in Monza – he was with less than 20 laps remaining at the top-10. « I was battling to keep people behind, and this can be normal for me these days, » said Magnussen, that appreciated fighting with his midfield rivals for after. Regrettably, his day fun has been brought to a stop by means of a problem.
Rating from ten: 7
« It was shaping up to be an remarkable race now, » explained Daniil Kvyat, who was up in sixth and ahead of this Red Bull if he had to retire with the oil leak. A pity for Honda, and your Russian, whose new engine appeared to work quite well at Monza.
Rating from ten: 7.5
Of running sixth, the curse? Carlos Sainz was in this position before Kvyat but was the very first DNF of the day. He has been in clear air when McLaren pitted him and had a great likelihood of scoring points on Sunday but they could not get the tyre on correctly and he was made to pull over. Following three finishes until the summer break, Sainz has returned with retirements that were back-to-back. Ouch.
Rating out of ten: 7.5
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