During lap six the left-rear brake on Sebastian Vettel's SF1000 overheated to the point that the brake assembly caught fire before disintegrating and flying off the car at the start of lap seven. The McLaren driver went on to pull a gap to the cars behind. Carlos Sainz pulled away quickly to take Valtteri Bottas off the start claiming second. ![]() Lewis Hamilton successfully retained the lead position on the start, while his teammate Valtteri Bottas gradually dropped to sixth place over the first two laps while reporting problems with his car. The final part of Q1 was marked by numerous cars starting their final flying lap at close distance, hampering each other's performance. It beat the lap record set by Kimi Räikkönen in 2018 by two tenths of a second. Hamilton's lap time of 1:18.887 is the fastest Formula One lap in history, with an average speed of 264.362 km/h (164.267 mph). Lewis Hamilton took pole, 0.069s ahead of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas. The session was briefly red flagged after Daniel Ricciardo stopped his Renault R.S.20 due to a mechanical failure. ![]() īottas was again fastest in third practice, followed by Carlos Sainz Jr. The second practice session ran without major incidents and concluded with Hamilton fastest, followed by Bottas and Lando Norris of McLaren. The session ended with Valtteri Bottas fastest ahead of Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull driver Alexander Albon third fastest. The first practice session was interrupted briefly when Max Verstappen crashed at the Ascari chicane. The ban was initially planned for the 2020 Belgian Grand Prix but it was delayed by one race. Prior to the race, the governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, issued a technical directive banning qualifying-specific engine modes from the Italian Grand Prix onwards. ![]() Pirelli brought the C2, C3 and C4 tyres for the race weekend, the second, third, and fourth hardest tyre compounds available. This race was the last for both Claire Williams and Frank Williams, as they stepped down from their positions at Williams Racing.īackground Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic It was the first instance of there being two standing starts since the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix, following a 2018 change in the regulations to allow for standing restarts after a red flag. Lance Stroll also scored his first podium since the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. It was also the first race not to be won by a driver from Red Bull, Mercedes, or Ferrari since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix. ![]() This was the first race since the 2012 Hungarian Grand Prix to not have a Red Bull, Mercedes, or Ferrari driver on the podium, the first of those podiums to feature three different teams since the 2012 Canadian Grand Prix and the first to feature a red flag since the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Racing Point's Lance Stroll completed the podium. Lewis Hamilton, who led the race until this point, was given a penalty for entering the pit lane when it was closed, passing the lead to Gasly, who defended from McLaren's Carlos Sainz Jr. Gasly started the race in tenth, but gained positions due to a well-timed pit-stop prior to a safety car, sent to retrieve the broken car of Kevin Magnussen. The race was won by Pierre Gasly of AlphaTauri- Honda, who took his first Formula One win and became the first French Formula One driver to win a race since Olivier Panis won the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix. The race was the eighth round in the 2020 Formula One World Championship. The 2020 Italian Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2020) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 6 September 2020 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy.
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