Autodromo Nazionale Monza archive
How Barrichello won and what happened to Grosjean (Italian Grand Prix analysis)
A one-stop strategy worked wonders for Rubens Barrichello in the Italian Grand Prix. That, and an excellent qualifying performance against his team mate.
Meanwhile Romain Grosjean had an off-track adventure that seemed to go unnoticed by the TV cameras. This and more in the Italian Grand Prix analysis.
Italian Grand Prix in pictures
The rain stayed away and in the Italian Grand Prix we saw Monza in all its glory: soft September sunlight and twitchy race cars with tea-tray rear wings lapping at stunning speed on a circuit steeped in history.
And best of all, the place was packed to capacity with some of the most passionate F1 fans [...]
Hamilton’s light car leaves him vulnerable (Italian GP fuel weights and strategy)
Adrian Sutil will be able to go one lap longer than Lewis Hamilton at the start of the Italian Grand Prix.
But Heikki Kovalainen could be the man to watch as he’s fuelled to make his pit stop much later than the three drivers in front of him. Here’s the fuel weights in full.
Lewis Hamilton beats Adrian Sutil to pole (Italian Grand Prix qualifying)
Lewis Hamilton and Adrian Sutil will share the front row of a grid for the Italian Grand Prix tomorrow.
It’s the first time they’ve done so since 2005 at Zandvoort – when the pair were team mates in the F3 Euroseries.
A last-gap effort from Hamilton seized pole position from the Force India driver. Sutil failed to [...]
Italian Grand Prix grid
1. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes – 1′24.066
2. Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes – 1′24.261
3. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari – 1′24.523
4. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes – 1′24.845
5. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes – 1′25.015
6. Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes – 1′25.030
7. Vitantonio Liuzzi, Force India-Mercedes – 1′25.043
8. Fernando Alonso, Renault – 1′25.072
9. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault – 1′25.180
10. Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault – 1′25.314
11. [...]
Italian GP weather update: rain again?
Earlier this week the signs pointed to a dry weekend at Monza for the Italian Grand Prix.
But now forecasts are starting to indicate a chance of wet weather this weekend.
The Metrociel precipitation map shows rainfall arriving at the circuit on Saturday afternoon – potentially during qualifying – and remaining into Sunday. (See here for [...]
Monza’s new kerbs are not likely to stop corner-cutting controversies
The Monza circuit operators have installed new kerbs in four places on the track. Significantly, the kerbs feature high raised parts to discourage drivers from using anything more than the flattest part of the corners.
Ferrari themselves have acknowledged their car is not so good over kerbs, which could lead to suspicion that the Italian Grand [...]
Hot, dry weather expected for Monza
The forecast is there should be no repeat of last year’s unusually wet weather at Monza for the Italian Grand Prix this weekend.
Three days of hot, dry weather with temperatures reaching the 30s are expected.
Only a few sites are predicting any chance of rain – AccuWeather gives a low chance of light rain on Saturday [...]
Ten ways to pick an F1 race to visit
With the 2009 F1 season almost upon us fans will be sorting out their plans to go to a Grand Prix.
So how do you go about picking which race to go to? Here are ten ways to help make up your mind.
2009 F1 tracks compared
After looking at the 2009 F1 cars from various angles many people have remarked on how different many of the designs are.
But if we take a look at the circuits alongside one another it seems F1 tracks are becoming increasingly similar.
