2019 Italian Grand Prix
2019 Italian Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 14 of 21 in the 2019 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1] | |||||
Date | 8 September 2019 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2019 | ||||
Location | |||||
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 | 200,000[2] | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Ferrari | ||||
Time | 1:19.307 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |||
Time | 1:21.779 on lap 51 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Ferrari | ||||
Second | Mercedes | ||||
Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2019 Italian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2019) was a
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 Constructors' World Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by 145 points.[3]
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.[4]
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 interrupted 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.[5][6]
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.[7] 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.[8]
Qualifying
Qualifying report
Q1 and Q2
The first 18-minute qualifying session, Q1, was temporarily red-flagged with 4:34 remaining, when
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;
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.[9] 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.[10] 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 in the final minutes of Q3. Red Bull's team principal Christian Horner's interpretation of Hülkenberg's move was that it was "obviously done on purpose", and beyond stating that the result was "all just a bit silly", interpreted the scenario with a widely reported expletive.[11] 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."[12]
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".[10][13] 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".[14] 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".[10]
Qualifying classification
Pos. | Car no. |
Driver | Constructor | Qualifying times | Final grid | ||
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Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||||
1 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:20.126 | 1:19.553 | 1:19.307 | 1 |
2 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:20.272 | 1:19.464 | 1:19.346 | 2 |
3 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:20.156 | 1:20.018 | 1:19.354 | 3 |
4 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:20.378 | 1:19.715 | 1:19.457 | 4 |
5 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Renault | 1:20.374 | 1:19.833 | 1:19.839 | 5 |
6 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:20.155 | 1:20.275 | 1:20.049 | 6 |
7 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | McLaren-Renault | 1:20.413 | 1:20.202 | 1:20.455 | 7 |
8 | 23 | Alexander Albon
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Red Bull Racing-Honda | 1:20.382 | 1:20.021 | No time | 8 |
9 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Racing Point-BWT Mercedes | 1:20.643 | 1:20.498 | No time | 9 |
10 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari | 1:20.634 | 1:20.515 | No time | PL1 |
11 | 99 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari | 1:20.657 | 1:20.517 | N/A | 10 |
12 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 1:20.616 | 1:20.615 | N/A | 11 |
13 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 1:20.723 | 1:20.630 | N/A | 12 |
14 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren-Renault | 1:20.646 | 1:21.068 | N/A | 162 |
15 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 1:20.508 | 1:21.125 | N/A | 172 |
16 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 1:20.784 | N/A | N/A | 13 |
17 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Racing Point-BWT Mercedes | 1:21.291 | N/A | N/A | 182 |
18 | 63 | George Russell | Williams-Mercedes | 1:21.800 | N/A | N/A | 14 |
19 | 88 | Robert Kubica | Williams-Mercedes | 1:22.356 | N/A | N/A | 15 |
107% time: 1:25.734 | |||||||
— | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-Honda | No time | N/A | N/A | 193 |
Source:[15][16] |
- Notes
- ^1 – Kimi Räikkönen was required to start from the pit lane for changing power unit components under parc fermé conditions.[17]
- ^2 – Lando Norris, Pierre Gasly and Sergio Pérez were all demoted to the back of the grid for exceeding their quota for power unit components.[18][19]
- ^3 – Max Verstappen was initially required to start from the back of the grid for exceeding his quota for power unit components,[18] but failed to set a lap time during qualifying. He was allowed to race at the stewards' discretion.[20]
Race
Race report
The top four drivers on the grid maintained their positions through turn 1 as the race began, with Charles Leclerc turning pole position into an early race lead. Max Verstappen, who started 19th on the grid, made contact with Sergio Pérez, damaging his front wing and requiring an early pit stop to replace it.
On lap 6, Sebastian Vettel, running a strong 4th, lost control and spun to a stop at turn 9, his car halfway onto the grass. In an attempt to rejoin as quickly as possible, Vettel veered into the path of Lance Stroll, who was in 7th. Vettel struck Stroll, damaging his own front wing, and further causing Stroll to spin out. When Stroll tried to rejoin the track, he in turn forced Pierre Gasly to drive through the gravel run off to in an attempt to avoid Stroll. Vettel was forced to replace his front wing at the end of lap 6, leaving him in last place. Stroll was pushed down to 13th. Race stewards investigated the double-incident. They penalised Vettel with a ten-second stop-go penalty, and Stroll with a drive-through penalty. Neither driver would recover to finish in the top ten. Vettel also received three penalty points on his FIA Super Licence for the incident.[21]
Pit stops
By lap 19, the top three drivers (Leclerc,
In the meantime, Leclerc's lead would be challenged for the remainder of the race by the
Race finish
The Grand Prix ended with Leclerc claiming his second consecutive race win and Ferrari's first win in Italy since
Race classification
- Notes
- ^1 – Includes one point for fastest lap.
Championship standings after the race
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- Note
- Only the top five positions for each set of standings are shown
See also
References
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- ^ "FP1: Leclerc fastest at Monza in rain-hit first session". Formula1.com. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
- ^ Benson, Andrew (6 September 2019). "Italian GP: Charles Leclerc fastest in first practice". BBC Sport. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
- ^ "FP2: Leclerc edges Hamilton by just 0.068s in Italy". Formula1.com. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
- ^ "FP3: Vettel leads Verstappen by 0.032s in shortened final practice". Formula1.com. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
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- ^ a b "Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2019 – Starting Grid". formula1. 7 September 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
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