| 2024 Italian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 16 of 24 in the2024 Formula One World Championship
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 Layout of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | |||||
| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 1 September 2024 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 PirelliGran Premio d'Italia 2024 | ||||
| Location | Monza Circuit 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 | ||||
| Attendance | 335,000[2] | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:19.327 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Lando Norris | McLaren-Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:21.432 on lap 53 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Ferrari | ||||
| Second | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
| Third | McLaren-Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2024 Italian Grand Prix (officially known as theFormula 1 Pirelli Gran Premio d'Italia 2024) was aFormula One motor race held on 1 September 2024 at theMonza Circuit inMonza, Italy. It was the sixteenth round of the2024 Formula One World Championship.
The race featured the Grand Prix debut ofFranco Colapinto, who drove forWilliams until the end of the season.Lando Norris andOscar Piastri locked out the front row forMcLaren, their first at Monza since2012. The 53-lap race was won byCharles Leclerc ofFerrari, who utilised a one-stop strategy to take the team’s first win at Monza since2019. Piastri and Norris rounded out the podium, the latter scoring the fastest lap.
The event was held at theMonza Circuit inMonza for the 74th time in the circuit's history, across the weekend of 30 August – 1 September.[3] The Grand Prix was the sixteenth round of the2024 Formula One World Championship and the 75th running of theItalian Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship.[4] On 29 August, thesafety car crashed off the track at turn 11. DriverBernd Mayländer and passengerRichard Darker were not injured in the incident.[5][6]
Going into the weekend,Max Verstappen led theDrivers' Championship with 295 points, 70 points ahead ofLando Norris in second, and 103 ahead ofCharles Leclerc in third.Red Bull Racing, with 434 points, led theConstructors' Championship fromMcLaren andFerrari, who are second and third with 404 and 370 points, respectively.[7]
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The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with the exception ofFranco Colapinto, who replacedLogan Sargeant atWilliams from this Grand Prix onwards.[8] Colapinto made his Formula One debut.[9][10]Kimi Antonelli drove forMercedes in place ofGeorge Russell during the first practice session, making his Formula One practice debut.[11]Aston Martin were planning to haveFelipe Drugovich drive in first practice in place ofFernando Alonso, before cancelling this plan in response to the track changes.[12]
Tyre supplierPirelli brought the C3, C4, and C5 tyre compounds (the three softest in their range) designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively, for teams to use at this event.[13]
Ahead of the event, Monza Circuit underwent significant changes. In addition to facility improvements, the entire track was resurfaced.[14][15] TheDRS zone leading in to turn 1 was extended by 103 metres (338 ft).[16]
Threefree practice sessions were held for the event. The first free practice session was held on 30 August 2024, at 13:30 local time (UTC+2), and was topped byMax Verstappen ofRed Bull Racing ahead ofCharles Leclerc ofFerrari andLando Norris ofMcLaren. DebutantKimi Antonelli spun at turn 11, crashing into the wall and causing the session to bestopped temporarily.[17] The second free practice session was held on the same day, at 17:00 local time, and was topped byLewis Hamilton ofMercedes ahead of Norris andCarlos Sainz Jr. of Ferrari. The third practice session was held on 31 August 2024, at 12:30 local time, and was topped by Hamilton ahead of his teammateGeorge Russell and Leclerc.[1]
Qualifying was held on 31 August 2024, at 16:00 local time (UTC+2).[1]
The race started at 15:00 local time (UTC+2) on 1 September 2024 and ran for 53 laps.[1] Fourteen drivers started on medium tyres, with the remaining six choosing the hard compound.[20] The track temperature was hot, at 52.2 °C, and there was a greater chance of rain than initially forecast.[21]
Lando Norris held the lead off of the starting line.George Russell locked up on the opening straight and was forced to take the run-off area of turn one, suffering damage to his front wing. He lost four positions and rejoined the race in seventh.[22] At the second chicane,Oscar Piastri performed an unexpected overtake on Norris, forcing Norris to lose momentum and allowingCharles Leclerc to overtake him, moving Norris down to third.[23]Nico Hülkenberg was forced off the track and into a gravel trap byDaniel Ricciardo. Both cars were able to continue, but Ricciardo was issued a 5-second time penalty and 1 penalty point.[24][25]
Four laps later, Hülkenberg locked up his tyres on turn 1 and collided with the otherRB ofYuki Tsunoda, causing both cars damage. Hülkenberg pitted on lap 6, switching to hard tires and changing his front wing. Tsunoda retired a lap later due to floor damage sustained from the collision; Hulkenberg was later given a 10-second time penalty and 2 penalty points for his role in the incident.[26][27] Leclerc's teammateCarlos Sainz Jr. initially overtook the McLarens during their first stops but ended up losing the positions to them.[25]
Leclerc stopped early to run the hard tyres, a decision he initially criticised on team radio. However, he was shifted into first place following stops for other drivers and ended up running the tyres to the end, winning the race ahead of Piastri and Norris. Leclerc's victory marked his seventh career win and Ferrari's first win at their home race since2019, which was also won by Leclerc.[25][28] This race marked the debut ofFranco Colapinto, who finished in twelfth having qualified in eighteenth. AWilliams junior, Colapinto was brought in from Formula 2 early to replaceLogan Sargeant, who was dropped due to underperforming. Following the race,Kevin Magnussen ofHaas received penalty points on his licence for a collision withPierre Gasly. This took Magnussen over the limit of 12 points for a rolling year, and earning him a one-race ban from the following2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.[29]
Notes
Despite not winning the race, Norris outscoredMax Verstappen by eight points in order to close the gap in the World Drivers' Championship to 62 points. Leclerc, who won the Grand Prix, moved to 217 points, being 86 points behind Verstappen in third. McLaren capitalised on yet another disappointing weekend for Red Bull, as both teams were only separated by eight points at the lead of the Constructors' Championship, with Red Bull and McLaren moving 446 and 438 points, respectively. Ferrari remained in third, just 39 points behind Red Bull, meaning that the Constructors' Championship were contested by three teams heading into the final stages of the season.
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