| 2018 Italian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 14 of 21 in the2018 Formula One World Championship
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 Layout of the Monza circuit | |||||
| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 2 September 2018 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 Gran PremioHeineken d'Italia 2018 | ||||
| Location | Autodromo Nazionale di 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 | Sunny | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Ferrari | ||||
| Time | 1:19.119 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:22.497 on lap 30 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Ferrari | ||||
| Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2018 Italian Grand Prix (formally theFormula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2018) was aFormula One motor race held on 2 September 2018 at theAutodromo Nazionale di Monza inMonza, Italy. The race was the fourteenth round of the2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 88th running of theItalian Grand Prix and the 83rd time the race was held at Monza.
Mercedes driverLewis Hamilton entered the round with a 17-point lead overSebastian Vettel in the Drivers' Championship. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes ledFerrari by 15 points.Kimi Räikkönen took the fastest pole position in Formula 1 history with an average speed of 263.588 km/h (163.786 mph), breaking the record set byRubens Barrichello in2004. Räikkönen's previous pole was at the2017 Monaco Grand Prix.
The race was won by Lewis Hamilton after a battle with Kimi Räikkönen, Hamilton caught and passed Räikkönen with 9 laps remaining. On the opening lap Hamilton and Vettel collided causing Vettel to spin off. Despite Vettel's complaints, the stewards deemed it just a racing incident. Vettel would later fight back to 4th place, behind Valtteri Bottas in third. Max Verstappen was penalised 5 seconds after forcing Bottas off the track after a pit stop and was classified 5th. Sergey Sirotkin, driving for Williams, scored his only Formula 1 championship point, after Romain Grosjean was disqualified from 6th place after Renault successfully lodged a protest due to his Haas carrying an illegal floor,[3] thus ensuring that for the first time ever in Formula One, all drivers who entered and finished every race in the season scored at least a point.[4]
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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| 1 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 53 | 1:16:54.484 | 3 | 25 |
| 2 | 7 |  Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 53 | +8.705 | 1 | 18 |
| 3 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 53 | +14.066 | 4 | 15 |
| 4 | 5 |  Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 53 | +16.151 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | 33 |  Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 53 | +18.2081 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | 31 |  Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 53 | +57.761 | 8 | 8 |
| 7 | 11 |  Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 53 | +58.678 | 14 | 6 |
| 8 | 55 |  Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 53 | +1:18.140 | 7 | 4 |
| 9 | 18 |  Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 52 | +1 lap | 10 | 2 |
| 10 | 35 |  Sergey Sirotkin | Williams-Mercedes | 52 | +1 lap | 12 | 1 |
| 11 | 16 |  Charles Leclerc | Sauber-Ferrari | 52 | +1 lap | 15 | |
| 12 | 2 |  Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren-Renault | 52 | +1 lap | 17 | |
| 13 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 52 | +1 lap | 20 | |
| 14 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 52 | +1 lap | 9 | |
| 15 | 9 |  Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 52 | +1 lap | 18 | |
| 16 | 20 |  Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 52 | +1 lap | 11 | |
| Ret | 3 |  Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 23 | Clutch | 19 | |
| Ret | 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Renault | 9 | Electrics | 13 | |
| Ret | 28 |  Brendon Hartley | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 0 | Collision | 16 | |
| DSQ | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 53 | Illegal floor2 | 6 | |
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