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2019 Italian Grand Prix
Race 14 of 21 in the 2019 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Monza circuit
Layout of the Monza circuit
Race details[1]
Date 8 September 2019
Official name Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2019
Location Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Monza, Italy
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 5.793 km (3.600 miles)
Distance 53 laps, 306.720 km (190.587 miles)
Weather Partly cloudy
Pole position
Driver
Ferrari
Time 1:19.307
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
Time 1:21.779 on lap 51
Podium
First
Ferrari
Second
Mercedes
Third
Mercedes

The 2019 Italian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2019) was a Formula One motor race held on 8 September 2019 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy. The race was the 14th round of the 2019 Formula One World Championship and marked the 89th running of the Italian Grand Prix and the 84th time the race had been held at Monza.

Background

Championship standings before the race

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 65-point lead over teammate Valtteri Bottas in the Drivers' Championship. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by 145 points.[2]

Entries

Further information: 2019 Formula One World Championship § Entries

The drivers and teams entered were the same as those for the previous race with no additional stand-in drivers for the race or practice.[3]

Practice

The first practice session was affected by rain and saw Charles Leclerc finish the session fastest followed by Carlos Sainz Jr. and Lando Norris. The session was inturputed three times, firstly when Kimi Räikkönen spun and got stuck in the gravel trap at turn 11. Sergio Pérez also crashed his car on the exit of turn 10 and finally when Pierre Gasly beached his car on the kerbs at turn 2. The session was also filled with spins from a number of other drivers.[4][5]

The second practice session was dry for the first hour before it started raining and the session once again saw Leclerc set the fastest time but this time it was Lewis Hamilton who was second fastest and Sebastian Vettel was third.[6] The third practice session was delayed and shortened by 10 minutes following an accident during the support Formula 3 race and finished with Vettel fastest followed by Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas.[7]

Qualifying

Qualifying report

The first 18 minute qualifying session, Q1, was temporarily red-flagged with 4:34 remaining, when Sergio Pérez's car lost power on the inside of turn 3. Max Verstappen, already facing grid penalties for replacing power unit components, did not set a time in the session. Verstappen and Pérez were eliminated in Q1, as were both Williams drivers, Robert Kubica and George Russell, and the Haas of Romain Grosjean. The session finished with Charles Leclerc fastest for Scuderia Ferrari. In the second qualifying (Q2) session, the other Haas of Kevin Magnussen was eliminated, as were both Toro Rosso drivers, Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat. Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi was the final driver eliminated in Q2, beaten by his teammate Kimi Räikkönen for the last spot for the third qualifying session (Q3) by 0.002 seconds. Racing Point driver Lance Stroll made it into Q3 for the first time in 2019. Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of Q2 which meant that Mercedes led a session for the first time in the weekend.

Q3

Q3, only 12 minutes long, was red-flagged at 6:35 left when Räikkönen lost control of his car and spun out wide into the tyre barriers at turn 11. After Räikkönen's car was cleared and the session resumed, two of the remaining nine drivers had still not set a time; Red Bull's Alexander Albon, and Stroll. When the session restarted, no team wanted to be the first to send their driver out as Monza is a track where slipstreaming is a significant advantage. As time began to wind down, speculation grew as to who would leave pit lane first. The Q3 drivers did not make their way out of their garages until there were two minutes left in the session, with Renault driver Nico Hülkenberg leading the pack.

When he got to turn 1, Hülkenberg missed the turn and instead navigated through the run-off slip road past Turn 1. This action led to him being accused of deliberately taking the run-off in an effort to let other drivers past.[8] Stroll and Carlos Sainz Jr, the next two drivers back, slowed their traversal of Turn 1, allowing enough time for Hülkenberg to again enter the track ahead of them.[9] By the time the tight pack of drivers, led by Sainz and Hülkenberg, reached turn 3 on their out-laps, the margin of error allowing for drivers to reach the start line by the end of the Q3 session time was virtually gone. Ultimately, only Sainz and Leclerc successfully completed their out laps. All seven drivers behind them were caught out and thus crossed the line too late to have an opportunity to set a time in the second half of Q3. Sainz, the only driver who made a meaningful attempt, was unable to improve his first Q3 time enough to move out of seventh. The result meant that neither Albon or Stroll set a lap time.

There was strong criticism of what had happened during Q3 with Red Bull's team principal Christian Horner describing Hülkenberg's actions as having caused "a complete clusterf**k scenario."[10] Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff described Hülkenberg's chicane cut and the collective drivers' out-lap slowdowns as "junior class", and "not worthy of Formula 1."[11]

Hülkenberg, Sainz, and Stroll were called in by the race stewards to be investigated for "driving unnecessarily slowly" on their Q3 out laps. The stewards further investigated Hülkenberg for potentially "leaving the track without a justifiable reason".[9][12] Hülkenberg was cleared of wrongdoing with respect to leaving the track. The stewards stated, "In this case we are unable to determine that the driver deliberately left the track." All three of the drivers were reprimanded for driving too slowly, which they admitted they did do, and which the stewards concluded "played a significant role in the backing up of cars at a critical stage of the final out lap for Q3".[13] The race stewards concluded the investigation of the three drivers with the remark, "The Stewards strongly recommend that the FIA expedite a solution to this type of situation".[9]

Qualifying classification

Pos. Car
no. 		Driver Constructor Qualifying times Final
grid
Q1 Q2 Q3
1 16 Monaco Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:20.126 1:19.553 1:19.307 1
2 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:20.272 1:19.464 1:19.346 2
3 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 1:20.156 1:20.018 1:19.354 3
4 5 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 1:20.378 1:19.715 1:19.457 4
5 3 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Renault 1:20.374 1:19.833 1:19.839 5
6 27 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Renault 1:20.155 1:20.275 1:20.049 6
7 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren-Renault 1:20.413 1:20.202 1:20.455 7
8 23 Thailand Alexander Albon Red Bull Racing-Honda 1:20.382 1:20.021 No time 8
9 18 Canada Lance Stroll Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 1:20.643 1:20.498 No time 9
10 7 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 1:20.634 1:20.515 No time PL1
11 99 Italy Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 1:20.657 1:20.517 N/A 10
12 20 Denmark Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 1:20.616 1:20.615 N/A 11
13 26 Russia Daniil Kvyat Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 1:20.723 1:20.630 N/A 12
14 4 United Kingdom Lando Norris McLaren-Renault 1:20.646 1:21.068 N/A 162
15 10 France Pierre Gasly Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 1:20.508 1:21.125 N/A 172
16 8 France Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 1:20.784 N/A N/A 13
17 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 1:21.291 N/A N/A 182
18 63 United Kingdom George Russell Williams-Mercedes 1:21.800 N/A N/A 14
19 88 Poland Robert Kubica Williams-Mercedes 1:22.356 N/A N/A 15
107% time: 1:25.734
DNQ 33 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda No time N/A N/A 193
Source:[14][15]
Notes
  • ^1 – Kimi Räikkönen was required to start from the pit lane for changing power unit components under parc fermé conditions.[16] He also received a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.[17]
  • ^2 – Lando Norris, Pierre Gasly and Sergio Pérez were required to start from the back of the grid for exceeding their quota for power unit components.[18][19][20]
  • ^3 – Max Verstappen failed to set a qualifying time within the 107% requirement and was allowed to race at the stewards' discretion.[21]

Race

Race classification

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 16 Monaco Charles Leclerc Ferrari 53 1:15:26.665 1 25
2 77 Finland Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 53 +0.835 3 18
3 44 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 53 +35.199 2 161
4 3 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Renault 53 +45.515 5 12
5 27 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Renault 53 +58.165 6 10
6 23 Thailand Alexander Albon Red Bull Racing-Honda 53 +59.315 8 8
7 11 Mexico Sergio Pérez Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 53 +1:13.802 18 6
8 33 Netherlands Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda 53 +1:14.492 19 4
9 99 Italy Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 52 +1 lap 10 2
10 4 United Kingdom Lando Norris McLaren-Renault 52 +1 lap 16 1
11 10 France Pierre Gasly Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 52 +1 lap 17
12 18 Canada Lance Stroll Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 52 +1 lap 9
13 5 Germany Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 52 +1 lap 4
14 63 United Kingdom George Russell Williams-Mercedes 52 +1 lap 14
15 7 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 52 +1 lap PL
16 8 France Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 52 +1 lap 13
17 88 Poland Robert Kubica Williams-Mercedes 51 +2 laps 15
Ret 20 Denmark Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 43 Hydraulics 11
Ret 26 Russia Daniil Kvyat Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 29 Engine 12
Ret 55 Spain Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren-Renault 27 Wheel 7
Fastest lap: United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – 1:21.779 (lap 51)
Source:[15][22]
Notes
  • ^1 – Includes one point for fastest lap.

Championship standings after the race

Note
  • Only the top five positions for each set of standings are shown

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Belgium 2019 - Championship". StatsF1. Retrieved 3 September 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ "2019 Italian Grand Prix – Entry List". FIA. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 5 September 2019. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  4. ^ "FP1: Leclerc fastest at Monza in rain-hit first session". Formula1.com. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Benson, Andrew (6 September 2019). "Italian GP: Charles Leclerc fastest in first practice". BBC sport. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  6. ^ "FP2: Leclerc edges Hamilton by just 0.068s in Italy". Formula1.com. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "FP3: Vettel leads Verstappen by 0.032s in shortened final practice". Formula1.com. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ "Nico Hulkenberg, Lance Stroll, Carlos Sainz reprimanded after Italian GP qualifying". Sky Sports. Sky. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  9. ^ a b c GPfans.com. "FIA rules on Hulkenberg, Sainz, Stroll actions in Monza qualifying". GPfans. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  10. ^ Wood, Ryan. "Formula 1: Christian Horner: Monza qualifying a 'complete clusterf**k'". Motorsport Week. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  11. ^ "Christian Horner: Monza qualy a 'complete clusterf**k'". PlanetF1. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
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  13. ^ "Reprimands for Lance Stroll, Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz". PlanetF1. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  14. ^ "Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2019 – Qualifying". formula1. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  15. ^ a b "Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2019 – Starting Grid". formula1. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  16. ^ "Offence Doc49 - K.Raikkonen (PU Elements)". FIA. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  17. ^ "Offence Doc50 - K.Raikkonen (Gearbox)". FIA. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  18. ^ "Offence Doc9 - L.Norris (PU Elements)". FIA. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  19. ^ "Offence Doc10 - P.Gasly (PU Elements)". FIA. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  20. ^ "Offence Doc48 - S.Perez (PU Elements)". FIA. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  21. ^ "Stewards Decision Doc44 - M.Verstappen (failure to set a time in qualifying)". FIA. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
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