2022 Italian Grand Prix - Monza, Sep 09 - 11 Sportsbook Motor Sport

[Tom]

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Expecting a dominant weekend from Red Bull. They should be able to maximise the corners while still having a top speed on a level or higher than Ferrari or Mercedes.

 

[Dylan]

Mercedes has elected to fit a fourth power unit to Lewis Hamilton's car for the Monza race as a consequence of the damage that his third engine picked up in his clash with Fernando Alonso on the opening lap at Spa-Francorchamps.

A Mercedes win was never on the cards this weekend, starting from the back won't be the same as when the Red Bulls did it. Could he finish top 10?

 

[Franco Pinion]

Quite a lot of teams taking penties this weekend

5 spots for Verstappen for changing ICE.
10 spots for Perez for changing ICE and gearbox.
Bottas and Sainz change some components. They start in front of Tsunoda and Hamilton who will be at the bottom of the grid for changing PU.

 

[Tom]

5 spots for Verstappen for changing ICE.

No reason not to. Barring a disaster he has the title pretty much won and he will be able to recover easily enough at Monza in comparison to other tracks, plus its only 5 places. Worst he will be on the grid is 6/7th.

At this point in the absence of an actual challenge, I think Red Bull is inventing problems just for a laugh and a test to see how easily they/Verstappen can still win.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Leclerc is on pole for the race, here is the final qualifying positions (before penalties)

Spoiler: Qualifying (Before Grid Penalties)

Pos.	Driver	Car	Q3
1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:20.161
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing Rbpt	1:20.306
3	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:20.429
4	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing Rbpt	1:21.206
5	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:21.524
6	George Russell	Mercedes	1:21.542
7	Lando Norris	Mclaren Mercedes	1:21.584
8	Daniel Ricciardo	Mclaren Mercedes	1:21.925
9	Pierre Gasly	Alphatauri Rbpt	1:22.648
10	Fernando Alonso	Alpine Renault
11	Esteban Ocon	Alpine Renault
12	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo Ferrari
13	Nyck De Vries	Williams Mercedes
14	Zhou Guanyu	Alfa Romeo Ferrari
15	Yuki Tsunoda	Alphatauri Rbpt
16	Nicholas Latifi	Williams Mercedes
17	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes
18	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes
19	Kevin Magnussen	Haas Ferrari
20	Mick Schumacher	Haas Ferrari

Note - Tsunoda penalised 10 grid places for accumulating 5 reprimands during the current championship, and 3 grid places for failing to slow for yellow flags during practice.
Hamilton, Tsunoda and Sainz required to start from the back of the grid for use of additional power unit and/or gearbox elements.
Perez, Verstappen and Bottas penalised 10, 5 and 15 grid places respectively for use of additional power unit elements.

So the starting grid will be as follows.

1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari
2	George Russell	Mercedes
3	Lando Norris	McLaren
4	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren
5	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri
6	Fernando Alonso	Alpine
7	Max Verstappen	Red Bull
8	Nyck de Vries	Williams
9	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo
10	Nicholas Latifi	Williams
11	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin
13	Sergio Perez	Red Bull
14	Esteban Ocon	Alpine
15	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo
16	Kevin Magnussen	Haas
17	Mick Schumacher	Haas
18	Carlos Sainz Jnr	Ferrari
19	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
20	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri

 

[Son Of Jack]

Latifi starting at P10. What could possibly go wrong

 

[Bandit]

Leclerc and Russell start on new softs, going to mean an early pit for both.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Great start from Max. 4 places made up on the first lap.

Lando Norris had a terrible start

 

[Son Of Jack]

De Vries doing well so far

 

[Franco Pinion]

I knew Max would make up space quickly, but FFS he is making it look easy.

Up to 2nd now.