Formula 1 made a guest appearance in Italy at the weekend.
The next disgrace for Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel followed in Monza, both Scuderia drivers retired early.
The live ticker for reading.
At
the Italian Grand Prix
is
Ferrari
* before another disaster.
In
Monza
*,
Mercedes is
once again a big favorite.
Sebastian Vettel
* can only laugh at his employer.
>>> UPDATE <<<
That's it from Monza!
Pierre Gasly completes
the sensation with his victory, the second place for
Carlos Sainz
is also a small surprise.
For
Lewis Hamilton
, after a bit of catching up, it was still enough for seventh place.
Ferrari drivers
Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc
were withdrawn from the race early due to problems with the car and a crash.
Round 53:
And indeed!
Pierre Gasly takes victory, the Frenchman does not let Sainz pass.
Lance Stroll remains third, followed by Lando Norris and Valtteri Bottas.
🏁 TOP TEN (LAP 53/53) 🏁
Gasly
Sainz
Stroll
Norris
Bottas
Ricciardo
Hamilton
Ocon
Kvyat
Perez # ItalianGP 🇮🇹 # F1 pic.twitter.com/VEiHCDpEth
- Formula 1 (@ F1) September 6, 2020
Lap 52:
Exciting one-on-one between Gasly and Sainz on the penultimate lap, but the Spaniard cannot overtake in the head-to-head race.
Lap 51:
Gasly still holds the lead.
The victory in Monza could be the greatest success of his Formula 1 career.
Unless Sainz gets in his way on the last two laps.
Lap 49:
After another overtaking maneuver, Hamilton has fought his way from 15th to 9th.
The last laps of the race are now on the agenda.
Will Sainz still win or Gasly secure the last few meters?
Stroll is in third place by a large margin.
Lap 46:
And Raikkonen is also overtaken by the Briton, now he is in 10th place. At the top, Sainz tries to get closer and closer to Gasly.
He is currently 1.6 seconds behind Gasly.
Bottas doesn't seem to have had a very good day today either and doesn't seem to be able to overtake fourth-placed Norris.
Round 45:
Wow!
Hamilton proves its class mightily and has fought its way up to 11th place.
Now he is behind Raikkonen, who is in tenth place.
Lap 42:
And again Hamilton overtakes an opponent, this time it's Romain Grosjean.
He is now in twelfth place.
At the front, the gap between Sainz and the leader Gasly is getting smaller.
Lap 40:
Hamilton also shows an overtaking maneuver against Albon and is now in 13th place. What can the Briton get out of the race?
Hands up who predicted this leaderboard ... # ItalianGP 🇮🇹 # F1 pic.twitter.com/shDaCWLMew
- Formula 1 (@ F1) September 6, 2020
Lap 36:
Kimi Räikkönen was in the front for a long time, now he has dropped to seventh place, Norris just passed him.
Compatriot Bottas was also able to overtake the 40-year-old.
Lap 34:
Gasly, Sainz and Stroll are currently leading the field, Lando Norris is behind the top three.
Lap 32:
Hamilton is now 15th, no one has yet been able to overtake him.
Lap 31:
The Dutchman Verstappen has to park his Red Bull, the race is also over for him.
Formula 1 in the live ticker: Unexpected tip - Hamilton far behind
Lap 31:
Gasly is currently in the lead as Hamilton pits and gets his penalty over and done with.
It falls back to the last position.
What comes from the British now?
Lap 28:
Lance Stroll was in fourth place before he braked - now Gasly and Kimi Raikkonen overtake him.
Lap 27:
Punctually at 4:20 p.m. it continues on the clean track, Hamilton takes control of what is happening again in the lap for the starting grid.
There will be a standing start for the 28th round!
Update from September 6th, 4:17 p.m .:
The drivers are ready again and are focused, the race will continue on the 27th lap shortly.
The race will continue at 4.20 p.m. Meanwhile, there is the all-clear after the crash at Leclerc.
# Charles16 was released from the medical center.
He is ok
# ItalianGP🇮🇹
- Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) September 6, 2020
Round 27:
A so-called investigation is also running against Norris, as the Briton drove too slowly when entering the pits.
Since his team-mate Carlos Sainz was ahead of him, he was able to complete a double stop.
Lap 26:
The red flags are out, the race is interrupted.
In order to ensure a safe evacuation and recovery of the Ferrari from Leclerc for the Marshells, the race is stopped.
On the previous lap, Giovinazzi received a 10-second penalty for driving into the pits without permission.
Lewis Hamilton could also be punished.
🚩 RED FLAG 🚩
The race is suspended after Leclerc's accident at the final corner
Cars will line up in the pit lane in race order # ItalianGP 🇮🇹 # F1 pic.twitter.com/uS5RLkQA44
- Formula 1 (@ F1) September 6, 2020
Lap 24:
Before half the race is over, the second Ferrari driver is also out of the race.
Charles Leclerc loses control of his car, Leclerc lands in the tire plaque on the famous Parabolica bend, but he immediately gives the all-clear over the radio.
Now the safety car has to come, the crash did not look safe.
Lap 23:
The Magnussen-Wegen has now been cleared and the drivers can return to the pit lane.
Sainz drives ahead, the other drivers also turn towards the pit.
Lap 22:
Lewis Hamilton and Antonio Giovinazzi went to the pit lane, although it was not open.
The Magnussen car should probably be pushed into the alley.
Lap 20:
And the next driver has to leave his racing car behind.
The Dane Kevin Magnussen reports over the radio that something in his car has broken - in a problematic place.
Lap 19:
Hamilton is now 13 seconds ahead of Carlos Sainz, with Lando Norris just 1.5 seconds ahead of the man in front.
Formula 1 in the live ticker: Vettel with mega disaster - "The drop is sucked"
Lap 19:
After the brake defect including a small explosion at Vettel, there are first voices from the German that
RTL
caught.
It had probably "announced early that we were having problems in the rear brake line," said Vettel.
He has "no idea why that is".
In addition, he is "not sure whether it is a material defect".
In any case, “something went wrong from the start”.
"It can always get worse - that's real, I wouldn't say frustrating, it's annoying," said the four-time champion.
The “fun factor is not at its peak.
The drop is sucked, "he said and adds:" Next year won't affect me anymore.
The team has chosen a different direction than me "
Lap 17:
The Finn Bottas seems to have more difficulties with the start of the race, as he tells his pits.
“I can't race with this engine setting,” he rumbles.
Lap 15:
Bottas has big problems with his Mercedes, which is in midfield traffic.
Now he has the Red Bull driver Verstappen on his neck.
Lap 12:
Shortly after Hamilton increased his lead to 5.6 seconds, the Briton set a new best lap time.
Another strong performance!
Lap 9:
Lando Norris faces well-known competition in the battle for third place: Perez, Ricciardo, Bottas and Verstappen lurk behind him.
Lap 7:
Vettel is back in the garage, but he will give up the race with a brake defect.
It looks as if the braking power in the car has exploded.
What a shame!
Round 6:
Sebastian Vettel seems to have massive problems, but not only because of his disastrous placement.
For the Heppenheimer it is now very bitter, because he probably has a defect in the car.
First his engineer informs him that he has a problem “on the back left”, then the 33-year-old rushes straight through the chicane and clears the styrofoam signposts.
Vettel reports and tells his box: "Brake damage".
That will be it for today.
Round 5:
Lewis Hamilton is currently living up to his role as a favorite and is also leading in Monza, today the Briton could extend his lead further.
Round 4:
As the race management announced, an investigation is to be carried out.
Immediately after the start of the race there was a scene in which the drivers Albon and Gasly blocked each other.
Gasly caught the Red Bull driver, who then had to go into the run-off zone.
Lap 3:
Mercedes driver Bottas loses ground, Norris pulls past the Finn.
Now Perez and Ricciardo are also pulling past him.
He is currently in 6th place.
Round 1:
And the pilots start the race!
Sainz moves Bottas directly on the skin, while Hamilton seems to have everything under control again.
Update from 3.10 p.m.:
Now the pilots, led by Lewis Hamilton, are driving their introductory lap.
The drivers' starting tires: Kvyat and Vettel drive on hard, Ocon and Leclerc on soft.
Raikkonen, Grosjean, Giovinazzi, Magnussen, Russell and Latifi on Medium.
Today's
53 laps
can be very intense.
Formula 1 in the live ticker: who will win the Italian GP?
Race coming soon
Update from September 6th, 3:07 pm:
The engines will start in a few minutes!
Who will win the Italian Grand Prix in Monza?
Update from September 6, 2:50 p.m.:
Ferrari team boss
Mattia Binotto
recently expressed himself slightly self-critical in view of the crisis of the racing team in this year's Formula 1 season.
Both his experienced driver
Sebastian Vettel
and the talented
Charles Leclerc fell
far short of expectations this year.
The 50-year-old asked himself “if I was the right person for this position”, but he knew from the “support of the company bosses”.
Binotto has “a lot of experience in Formula 1, more than
35 years
.
I know the team very well and have a technical background, ”he said.
In addition, the Scuderia team boss does not want to evade his responsibility.
Vettel
himself commented on his early exit in Q1 to
RTL as
usual.
“The situation in qualifying was extremely unfavorable for us.
We were in the wrong place at the wrong time, ”he said.
"We have no other choice than to make the best of it," said the Heppenheimer on Sunday.
Racing at home 🏠
The #ItalianGP 🇮🇹 race day is here. # EssereFerrari 🔴 @Kaspersky pic.twitter.com/gMjkyWd5dk
- Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) September 6, 2020
Formula 1 in the live ticker: Silver Arrows Vettel starts in 17th place
Update September 6, 14:25:
In a three-quarter hour it goes in
Monza
with the
Italian Grand Prix
going on.
While the Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas start in the first two places,
Sebastian Vettel has
to be
content
with
17th
place
after his messed up qualifying
.
In the eighth race of the current season, the Spaniard Carlos Sainz starts in third place, followed by the Mexican Sergio Perez.
STARTING GRID
How our field will start Sunday's race in Monza 👇 # ItalianGP 🇮🇹 # F1 pic.twitter.com/OqNrXX3Vn7
- Formula 1 (@ F1) September 5, 2020
Update from September 6th, 1.30 p.m.:
Formula 1
starts
today at one of its most important locations
at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza
.
The decisive race in the northern Italian city starts at
3:10 p.m.
on the high-speed track.
We report on the premier class race in the live ticker.
Who will take the top step today?
And can
Sebsatian Vettel
recover from Saturday's horror training session?
Formula 1 in the live ticker: F1 team starts the coming season under a new name
There was news in the morning from the Formula 1 works team
Renault
, which announced that it would
start
under the name
Alpine
from the coming season
.
The French announced this on Sunday as part of the
Italian Grand Prix in Monza
.
The restructuring of the company by Renault CEO
Luca de Meo
is the reason for the renaming of the team.
Alpine, a French sports car brand, has been part of Renault since the 1970s.
The current black and yellow
Formula 1 car
will also get a new coat of paint next year.
Alpine will compete in the colors of the French flag red, white and blue.
BREAKING: Renault will become Alpine F1 Team from 2021, and introduce a new color scheme featuring the French national colors of blue, red and white # F1 @ RenaultF1Team pic.twitter.com/UVlIEKtbax
- Formula 1 (@ F1) September 6, 2020
Update from September 6, 12.20 p.m.:
It
starts
in just under three hours.
How much can Sebastian Vettel do well?
The German starts from position 17 and has to hope for good luck in order to be able to collect points at all.
Formula 1 in the live ticker: qualifying disaster for Vettel and Co.!
Ferrari now at historic low
Update from September 5, 4:45 p.m.:
It was announced - and is still no less sobering.
Ferrari
experiences a disaster during qualifying at the home Grand Prix of Monza.
Sebastian Vettel
doesn't even survive Q1 and lands in
17th place
.
Team mate
Charles Leclerc
takes
13th place
.
Lewis
Hamilton
grabs the next pole with a track record.
The Ferrari result is historically bad - in
1984
no red speedster
made it
to the top ten starting positions.
Vettel not only had a slow car, but also bad luck with the traffic.
He criticized the team: “The plan was of course to get a clean lap, but it didn't work out.
There were too many cars in the same place.
I think we should have just gone out later, "says Vettel.
Eliminated in Q1, Seb watched Q3 from trackside in Monza # ItalianGP 🇮🇹 # F1 pic.twitter.com/jqDFjIeUkU
- Formula 1 (@ F1) September 5, 2020
Germans are not optimistic about the race.
"I think we are a bit faster than the cars around us, but it will be difficult to make up a lot of ground," predicts the Heppenheimer.
Valtteri Bottas
starts behind Hamilton
.
Carlos
Sainz
secured a strong third place on the grid
in the
McLaren
with the best qualifying result of his career, followed by
Sergio Perez
,
Max Verstappen
and
Lando Norris
.
The feared slipstream chaos like last year did not occur despite a lot of crowding on the track.
Formula 1: Monza with a dangerous peculiarity - "Will be a disaster"
Update from September 5, 9:01 a.m. - before qualifying:
Line up like a pearl necklace, strolling until the last second - to land as far ahead as possible with lead foot and optimal slipstream.
Before
qualifying
for
the Grand Prix
of
Monza
on Saturday afternoon (15.00 / RTL and Sky) goes into the
Formula 1
concern about facing a huge mess.
Already in free practice on Friday, the 20 pilots were rehearsing the
lee of Poker
.
“It's a good exercise, but in qualifying it will be a disaster,” Ferrari driver
Charles Leclerc
remarked
on the radio.
The problem: Without a slipstream, it is hardly possible to get a front starting position on the high-speed track from Monza, a lap in the suction of another car can bring a time advantage of up to 0.7 seconds.
Concern about Formula 1 races in Monza: "It's only a matter of time before something happens"
In the worst case, however, there is a risk of a
pile-up
with potentially devastating consequences.
"We urgently need to change something, it's just a matter of time before something happens," warned
McLaren team boss Andreas Seidl
on the Sky microphone.
The World Automobile Federation
FIA
therefore strongly recalled Article 27.4 of the regulations, which states: "At no time may a car be moved unnecessarily slowly, unevenly or in a way that could be dangerous for other drivers or people."
A
minimum
lap time should also be specified - also so that the “own goal” from the previous year is not repeated: In 2019, the remaining ten drivers strolled so hard in the last qualifying section that only the future pole-setter Leclerc and the Spaniard Carlos Sainz in the McLaren Crossed the starting line at the end of the training period and were allowed to set another fast lap.
The rest looked into the tube.
Update from September 4th, 1:32 p.m. - first free practice:
It comes as expected -
Ferrari
is
not competitive
in
Monza
.
In the first practice session of the Italian Grand Prix, only one driver was slower than
Sebastian Vettel
.
It is a tragedy - the German took 19th place. Only Williams driver
Nicholas Latifi
was left behind by the Heppenheimer.
However, Vettel was only on the road with the slower, hard tire compound.
Team-mate
Charles Leclerc
fared a little better with eleventh place.
Valtteri Bottas set
the fastest lap
ahead of
Lewis Hamilton
.
Max Verstappen
in the
Red Bull
destroyed the nose of his racing car during a ride.
Mattia Binotto spoke in an interview about Mick Schumacher and his father and defended the early announcement that Sebastian Vettel * would be eliminated.
Formula 1 in the live ticker: Ferrari humiliation at home?
Vettel can only laugh
First report from September 2nd:
Monza - The first of three Italian Grand Prix of the current Formula 1 season * is on the program this weekend.
With such low ambitions as this time,
Ferrari
* has probably not started the home race for decades - so it's almost good that there are no spectators.
Lewis Hamilton
and
Mercedes
are also
big favorites
in
Monza
*.
Formula 1 - Monza in the live ticker: Again bad cards for Vettel and Ferrari
With Monza,
the next
speed track
awaits
the teams and drivers *
after
Spa
*
- in view of the significant performance disadvantages of all teams with Ferrari engines, this means: Bad cards for the Scuderia again.
Sebastian Vettel
* has no choice but to take the situation with humor.
During the race in Belgium, the German took refuge in cynicism: “I'm about to be eaten,” he radioed to the pits when the pursuers were approaching.
Vettel was in a surprisingly good mood after the spa disaster - he can only laugh at his team himself.
Is his new team already fixed?
There are hot discussions going on *.
In addition, a legendary ex-Ferrari boss criticized the racing team for dealing with Sebastian Vettel and his removal.
Formula 1 - Monza in the live ticker: Vettel cynical - Renault could go on the podium
He
couldn't spare himself
a swipe for his team boss
Mattia Binotto
.
Faced with the red car's non-existent top speed, the Italian had referred to a "track problem" and was looking forward to the next race.
When asked about the statement, Vettel said with a grin: "I think if he says it, then he is right".
It couldn't be more ironic.
It also fits that there was a crash with team-mate Leclerc in Belgium *.
Be careful with Monza, it bites!
😳
Kimi Raikkonen knows only too well ... # ItalianGP 🇮🇹 # F1 pic.twitter.com/xf92pDuQnc
- Formula 1 (@ F1) September 2, 2020
Insider tip for the race in Monza is
Renault
*.
In Spa, the traditional French racing team achieved their best result in years with fourth and fifth place.
The Monza course should suit the cars of
Daniel Ricciardo
and
Esteban Ocon
just as well - the yellow speedsters are rightly aiming for a podium place.
Formula 1 - Monza in the live ticker: Change of regulations could weaken Mercedes
A mini regulation change offers
a small glimmer of hope
for all pursuers of
Mercedes
*.
The use of the so-called "
party mode
", which
releases more power in one lap
, especially for
qualifying
, was prohibited for the time being.
Above all, Mercedes had benefited from this.
How much the industry leader will ultimately lose, however, nobody really knows.
(epp)
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