Jules Bianchi was the fastest driver once again on Day Two of the Young Driver Test. Continuing from where he left off yesterday, albeit in a Force India rather than a Ferrari today, the Frenchman completed 117 laps of the Magny-Cours circuit.
Jules Bianchi was the fastest driver on Day One of the three-day Young Driver test at Magny-Cours.
Lewis Hamilton desribed winning at Monza as “one of the greatest experiences of my Formula 1 career”. The Britain took victory in a dominant fashion in the Italian Grand Prix to record his 20th F1 victory and the 180th of his McLaren team.
The need to run two stop strategy in this afternoon’s grand prix ensured that Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg were kept entertained as the were forced to overtake in the closing stages of the race.
Red Bull had a grand prix to forget today in Monza after Sebastian Vettel suffered the same alternator failure that denied him a win back in Valencia in June, and Mark Webber was also forced to retire with badly flat-spotted tyres in the closing laps.
Sergio Perez and Sauber surprised everybody, not least themselves, by taking second place today in Monza through a perfectly executed one-stop strategy.
Lewis Hamilton of McLaren took victory in the Italian Grand Prix, winning by 4.3 seconds from Sergio Perez. Fernando Alonso extended his lead in the drivers’ championship to 37 points.
Lewis Hamilton took an easy win at the Italian Grand Prix in another race where some key championship contenders suffered retirements.
Lewis Hamilton of McLaren took pole position for tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton said a ‘huge thanks’ to his McLaren team after he secured pole position for the Italian Grand Prix in Monza.
Daniel Ricciardo described his qualifying session at Monza today as ‘so-so’, after finishing fifteenth in the Toro Rosso. Team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne qualified seventeenth.
Sebastian Vettel was happy with sixth place in qualifying today at Monza after his Red Bull has failed to match the pace of its rivals so far in this Italian Grand Prix weekend.
Sauber CEO Monisha Kalternborn said that the team were ‘quite happy’ with their performance in qualifying today as Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez finished the session ninth and thirteenth.
Paul di Resta declared himself ‘very happy’ with his flying lap in Q3 at Monza today, which was good enough for fourth place on the Italian Grand Prix grid.
Michael Schumacher is targetting ‘solid’ points in tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix after qualifying fifth in Monza today.
HRT’s Pedro de la Rosa described his qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix as average after he was out-qualified by team-mate Narain Karthikeyan for the first time.
Lewis Hamilton will start tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix from pole position thanks to a lap full of fastest sectors giving him a time of 1:24.010 early in Q3.
