Charles Leclerc sent the Italian fans wild with a popular home win for Ferrari is a masterful display of driving, holding on with old tyres to keep the McLarens at bay. Talking of popular, here is our 2024 Italian F1 Grand Prix Result Summary.
This 2024 Italian Grand Prix Result, Laps that Matter summary, Review & Ratings which gives you just enough to catch up with. With just a hint of cynicism, bias, opinion and colour. The perfect bite sized review for those who couldn’t be bothered, or don’t have enough time.
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Didn’t see the race live? Don’t have time to watch the whole race? Here’s where we capture the laps where stuff happened. We write these live as we go, sort of like a minute by minute for the football, but marginally more interesting.
Setting the scene – It’s a McLaren 1-2 in qualifying with the Championship chasing Lando Norris on top. The stage is set for taking a huge chunk out of that Championship deficit too with the Red Bull of Max Verstappen starting from 7th on the grid. In between is another McLaren, two Mercedes and Two Ferraris. None of those cars will happily give up a position to Verstappen. Max, who is not used to losing could get impatient and double down on the disadvantage to McLaren with a clash. The season’s quickest race is ready to be blinked and missed. It’s hot, and a small chance of rain.
GRID (Starting Order) – NOR PIA RUS LEC SAI HAM VER PER ALB HUL
Lap 1 – A mediocre start from Lando Norris sees him chop across his team mate but Piastri does the right thing and jinks left which gives Norris a clean line into the first chicane. George Russell smokes up his tyres by outbraking himself and heading down the escape lane. But Piastri isn’t quite as nice into the second chicane as he dives past Norris who was not expecting it. This then allowed Charles Leclerc to steal second place too. Hard to think McLaren wanted this scenario. Further back Max Verstappen is complaining about something with Lewis Hamilton. Only noticeable thing further back in the field is the Hulk dropping from 10th to 16th.
ORDER – PIA LEC NOR SAI HAM VER PER RUS ALB ALO
Lap 3 – Sergio Perez is complaining about George Russell’s car which appears to be missing parts. He continues for now. So does Perez, behind him.
Lap 4 – Lando Norris sets fastest lap as he closes on Charles Leclerc. The gaps between most of the top ten drivers are around the one second mark at this stage.
Lap 6 – Nico Hulkenberg comes in for new tyres and a new front wing. He was given very little room by Daniel Ricciardo on lap one as they approached the Ascari chicane side by side.
Lap 8 – Yuki Tsunoda retires from the race. Not a great weekend after being eliminated in Q1. He ain’t getting a Red Bull drive on current form. Nico Hulkenberg gets a 10 second penalty that relates to Tsunioda’s DNF.
Lap 10 – Piastri is still just over a second in front of Leclerc, who is similarly in front of Norris for the top three. Only Perez is threatening George Russell for front half action.
Lap 11 – Sergio Perez does overtake George Russell for 7th. Russell pits at the end of the lap for a tyre change and a nose job. Meanwhile, the Red Bull’s are off the pace a little thus far, but are on the hard tyre like not many.
ORDER – PIA LEC NOR SAI HAM VER PER RUS ALB ALO
Lap 14 – Oscar Piastri has skipped out to three seconds in front now, while his team mate closes in on Charles Leclerc, and then dives into the pitlane. Norris getting the undercut may be part of McLaren’s plans all along. Coming out behind Esteban Ocon probably wasn’t but Norris makes light work of getting past. He’s behind Alex Albon for now.
Lap 16 – Leclerc and Hamilton pit. Lando Norris has jumped ahead of Leclerc, which works nicely for the Brit. Less so for Hamilton who ends up joining behind Ocon and Stroll. That could be trouble. Piastri has been given the Box call too.
Lap 17 – Oscar Piastri pits from the lead and rejoins just in front of Alex Albon, who is just in front of Lando Norris. But at least McLaren have cleared out other main teams in between their drivers. And Albon pits a lap later anyway. Stand by for team orders. Charles Leclerc meanwhile is questioning his team’s tactics. He probably has to do that a lot.
ORDER – SAI VER PER PIA NOR LEC OCO STR HAM BOT
Lap 19 – The Red Bulls are currently second and third and on the hard tyres. Given it seems everyone has to pit one more time, have Red Bull played a blinder here. The other main runner yet to pit was leader Carlos Sainz, but he pits at the end of the lap and emerges 6th.
Lap 22 – Valtteri Bottas is threatening to score his team’s first point of the season, harassing Fernando Alonso for 10th. Max Verstappen pits and the pit stop is a slower one with a delay putting the right rear on. That will certainly make Max happy. He rejoins 8th.
Lap 23 – Radio message from McLaren. “You are allowed to race, Papaya rules”. Hopefully some interesting gear coming.
Lap 26 – Not sure if Piastri is listening, he sets fastest lap and extends his lead to 1.8 seconds. Followed by another on Lap 27. And Lap 28. The lead over Norris is 2.5 seconds.
Lap 29 – Lando Norris sets a fastest lap now.
Lap 31 – Sergio Perez and George Russell are racing for 7th and Russell ran wide at the first chicane again. Further ahead Lando Norris has made a mistake and the gap evaporates between him and Leclerc. Norris’ mistake was running wide at the second chicane.
Lap 33 – Lando Norris pits for new tyres, looking for an undercut again. He comes out in front of Max Verstappen which will be easy for Verstappen to take. A slow pit stop didn’t help.
Lap 37 – Oscar Piastri is nearly six seconds up the road from Charles Leclerc and is easily a full pit stop ahead of Lando Norris, who is spending his time chasing Max Verstappen for 5th.
Lap 38 – Lewis Hamilton pits for new tyres, and McLaren check on Piastri to see if he can make the end of the race on the tyres. Piastri and probably his computer say no. Further back George Russell and Sergio Perez are giving each other heaps
Lap 39 – Oscar Piastri pits from the lead and rejoins third just in front of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris. The Ferraris remain. Can they make the distance? Probably not.
ORDER – LEC SAI PIA VER NOR HAM MAG RUS PER ALB
Lap 41 – Lando Norris overtakes Max Verstappen for fourth, which means his team mate is the next car ahead. But ahead of Piastri are the two Ferraris who may not have to stop now. There’s 16 seconds between Piastri and leader Charles Leclerc with 11 laps to go. Are the McLaren’s fast enough to close that gap for victory. Will Piastri let Norris past for Championship glory. Lots of questions. Answers coming.
Lap 43 – Oscar Piastri is two laps away from catching Carlos Sainz according to the screen stats, but there’s another 10 second to Leclerc ahead of Sainz. 8 laps to go, it doesn’t look likely. Sainz and Piastri have form for clashing too this season.
Lap 45 – That prediction was pretty good as Piastri catches Sainz on the pit straight but is not quite close enough for the time being. He needs to get past quickly and does so half a lap later in the Ascari chicane. Charles Leclerc is 12 seconds ahead after Piastri gets past. Lando Norris is over two seconds behind Sainz, so his chance for first is probably over.
ORDER – LEC PIA SAI NOR HAM VER RUS PER MAG ALB
Lap 48 – Lando Norris passes Carlos Sainz for third. Ahead Oscar Piastri has reduced the gap to Charles Leclerc to just over five seconds.
Lap 49 – Piastri is now over seven seconds behind Leclerc and it looks like he may be preparing to give Norris his second place for Championship gains. Unless Piastri has made a mistake.
Lap 51 – Piastri is making not much of an impression on Leclerc who is finding something on much older tyres. Lando Norris isn’t making much up on Piastri either. Leclerc looks safe with two laps to go.
Lap 52 – Oscar Piastri is gaining but not quick enough. It’s under four seconds as they cross the line to start the last lap. Piastri may not want to win now, he may not get out of Italy in one piece.
FINAL LAP – Charles Leclerc holds onto first position after nursing his tyres around one final lap. The crowd are pretty happy with it too. It was a great drive from Leclerc. Oscar Piastri gets within three seconds but it’s not enough. Lando Norris adds one point to his Championship gains with a fastest lap on the last tour.
FINAL ORDER (Across the line) – LEC PIA NOR SAI HAM VER RUS PER ALB MAG
Here we go through the field and highlight the very best (Great) of the race, and the plodders, the over-ambitious, the out of luck, and simply hopeless (Grape).
These points get added to our Driver of the Season scores. points for a great nomination, and -5 for the worst or grapest driver in the pack. Then it is +2 /-2 for honourable or dishonourable mentions.
THE GREAT-EST – CHARLES LECLERC
A sensational win for Charles Leclerc. Does it get any better than a win for Ferrari at Monza. He’d know, he’s done it before. But Leclerc did a super job on his one stopper, holding on well at the end as the McLaren of Piastri close in.
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
OSCAR PIASTRI – A solid job in qualifying sees him line up second and stay there after the start as he behaved himself. But then at the second chicane he steals the lead from Lando Norris and doesn’t look back. Pity looking forward he saw a Ferrari that had only pitted once, but second is still a good result.
ALEX ALBON – Fast and in the top ten mix all weekend through practice and qualifying. 9th in the race is a decent collect.
KEVIN MAGNUSSEN – Good run to 10th place with some smart overtaking during the race.
FRANCO COLAPINTO – Outqualified a few cars at his first attempt of F1 proper, and ran ahead of some very experienced drivers in the race. Didn’t spin or crash, so instantly better than Logan Sargeant. TV picks up his move on Pierre Gasly for 15th. A final placing of 12th is a fantastic result.
THE GRAPE-EST – MAX VERSTAPPEN
Qualified on the fourth row is a genuine lack of pace. Put on hard tyres as an alternative strategy which didn’t really work. Losing more point in the Championship, although it could have been worse with a better race from Lando Norris. The Constructors Championship lead is almost gone, and the driver Championship is getting nervous for him.
DISHONOURABLE MENTIONS
YUKI TSUNODA – Dropped out of qualifying in Q1 again, and was beaten in Qualifying by his team mate. An early retirement was after a clash with Nicop Hulkenberg.
DANIEL RICCIARDO – Made a decent start for a change, beat his team mate in qualifying, then came the race. Ran Nico Hulkenberg off the track on lap one, which gave him a ten second penalty. Then got a ten second penalty for not doing the ten second penalty correctly before.
LANDO NORRIS – Harsh maybe but qualifying first and finishing third must be a bit disappointing. Especially when the Red Bull of his nearest championship was having a shocker. A low ranking based on what could have been, not what did happen.
Was it a good race, loads of action, a tense ending, a surprise result or DNF, or just a big, fat, snooze-fest?
We rate the big race itself, so we know which races to go back and watch in the off season or one to simply remember the winner for the post season quiz nights.
ON TRACK ACTION – 5 / 10
An exciting opening lap with the McLaren swapping positions, and there was some good overtakes in the midfield and beyond. The front cars are too compeditive for too much racing, so it is done via the pit stops.
ANY SURPRISES? – 5 / 5
The Red Bull’s better so far off the pace in qualifying certainly was. Piastri move on Norris on lap one was also a surprise. For Lando. Then Ferrari win the race on a one stopper, when it looked it was a coin flip between the McLaren drivers.
SEASON IMPORTANCE – 5 / 5
If a new order wasn’t officially declared before this weekend it should be now. McLaren are bossing the championship at the moment, and with the Red Bull looking a genuine fourth quickest at Monza, are the gloriest of glory days over?
ENDING 6 / 10
Tension at the end as the McLarens chased the Ferraris for the win. And would Piastri move over for Norris for the Championship. Sadly Piastri was able to make it close enough for too much tension.
OVERALL RATING 21 / 30
Interesting enough race, with a surprise win for Ferrari at their home track. The race doubles as an important one for the rest of the season as the Red Bull form is diving.
2024 F1 Race Rankings
R15 – Dutch Grand Prix…15/30
R14 – Belgian Grand Prix…23/30
R13 – Hungarian Grand Prix…19/30
R12 – British Grand Prix…25/30
R11 – Austrian Grand Prix…27/30
R10 – Spanish Grand Prix…19/30
R09 – Canadian Grand Prix…22/30
R08 – Monaco Grand Prix…17/30
R07 – Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix…23/30
R06 – Miami Grand Prix…23/30
R05 – Chinese Grand Prix…15/30
R04 – Japanese Grand Prix…18/30
R03 – Australian Grand Prix…23/30
R02 – Saudi Arabia Grand Prix…9/30
R01 – Bahrain Grand Prix…13/30
2024 F1 Season Power Rankings
Stay tuned for our Power Rankings from the race soon as it is currently being calculated and will be ready on Monday.
Why not check the latest race ratings – 2024 Belgian Grand Prix Ratings
Or our 2024 F1 Half Season Report.
Or check out our 2023 Season Driver Rankings and Stats
