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Team-by-team analysis of Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix (teams listed in current championship order)
MERCEDES (Valtteri Bottas 3, Lewis Hamilton retired)
Bottas won Saturday’s sprint but started 19th and final after engine penalties. He finished fourth on track but progressed due to a time penalty from Perez. Hamilton and Verstappen collided on lap 26 of 53, both giving up in place.
It was Hamilton’s first absence of the season and his first retirement since July 2018. Verstappen’s car landed on the Mercedes but the halo took impact, saving Hamilton from a serious injury. The accident triggered a safety car period.
Mercedes increased the lead of its manufacturers to 18 points. Hamilton is five behind Verstappen.
RED BULL (Sergio Perez 5, Retired Max Verstappen)
Verstappen was fined three grid places for the next race in Russia for causing the collision with Hamilton. Perez was third on the track but fell after a five-second penalty for gaining the advantage by going over the limits of the track.
MCLAREN (Daniel Ricciardo 1, Lando Norris 2)
McLaren’s first win since 2012 and Ricciardo’s first since joining Red Bull in 2018. He started second and took the lead in the first corner. They are the only team to have completed one-two this season. Their last previous double was in Canada in 2010. The second was a career best for Norris.
FERRARI (Charles Leclerc 4, Carlos Sainz 6)
Leclerc, winner in 2019 at Monza, gained a place after Perez’s penalty but the car lacked speed on the straights. Sainz, second last year for McLaren, appeared for the first time at Monza in the colors of Ferrari. The Spaniard struggled to slide the rear of the car.
ALPIN (Fernando Alonso 8, Esteban Ocon 10)
Alpine remains fifth but has now scored in 13 races in a row. Ocon had to give way to Latifi early on and was fined five seconds for colliding with Vettel on lap 15, purging him during his pit stop. Alonso had a lonely race.
ALPHATAURI (Pierre Gasly retired, Yuki Tsunoda no departure)
Gasly, last year’s surprise winner, retired early with an unspecified system issue while Tsunoda was taken off the grid and did not start due to a brake issue. AlphaTauri’s record as the only team to score in every race this year has come to an end.
ASTON MARTIN (Lance Stroll 7, Sebastian Vettel 12)
Stroll started ninth, Vettel 11th. The Canadian considered seventh place the best he could have done. Vettel lost places when he was pushed wide on the first lap, damaging the car. He also stopped just before the safety car was deployed and made contact with Ocon and Schumacher.
WILLIAMS (George Russell 9, Nicholas Latifi 11)
Russell, starting 14th, scored points for the third time in four races, with Williams now 19 points ahead of Alfa. Russell gained positions in the pit lane thanks to the safety car. Latifi had no luck with the timing of the safety car.
ALFA ROMEO (Antonio Giovinazzi 13 years old, Robert Kubica 14 years old)
Giovinazzi started seventh, but a collision and spin on the first lap sent him to the back of the field.
HAAS (Mick Schumacher 15, Nikita Mazepin retired)
Schumacher started 18th, Mazepin 16th. The pair collided on the restart after the safety car period and Mazepin was fined five seconds. The Russian made three stops and then pulled out towards the end with a powertrain problem.
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