F1MATHS: Key numbers from the Italian Grand Prix

Final Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix noticed Max Verstappen safe his third win of the season, following on from these in Suzuka and Imola, in addition to his third on this race, so as to add to these in 2022 and 2023, all with Crimson Bull Racing. F1Technical’s senior author Balazs Szabo delivers some key numbers and information from the race on the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

Quickest race – Final Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix turned the quickest world championship Grand Prix in F1 historical past. Race winner Max Verstappen took just one:13:24.325 to cowl the race distance which led to a median velocity of 250.706 km/h or 155.791 mph.

The Dutchman thus broke Michael Schumacher’s earlier document, which was set on the 2003 Italian Grand Prix. The seven-time world champion took 1:14:19.838 to win that spherical, recording a median velocity of 247.585 km/h.

In reality, the drivers who completed second to seventh right this moment additionally received underneath the Ferrari driver’s successful time.

Third win – Though Crimson Bull struggled for tempo eventually yr’s Monza race, Max Verstappen had all the things underneath management final Sunday.

The Dutch driver has received 3 times this season, securing his first win on the Japanese Grand Prix earlier than successful the primary Italian spherical of the season at Imola.

In complete, Verstappen recoreded his 66th profession victory, which implies he’s nonetheless third on the all-time checklist behind Lewis Hamilton (105) and Michael Schumacher (91).

Inching nearer – It was Verstappen’s third Monza win within the final 4 years, which meant that he joined a reasonably large group of drivers who’ve received on the Italian Grand Prix 3 times.

This checklist contains Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Ronnie Peterson, Alain Prost, Rubens Barrichello, and Sebastian Vettel.

Repetition – Simply as they did a yr in the past, the 2 McLaren drivers had been on the rostrum, with Lando Norris ending up second and Oscar Piastri third on the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

New document – On his method to the second place at Monza, Lando Norris additionally set a brand new outright common velocity document when he set the race quickest lap on lap 53 in 1m 20.901s, at a velocity of 257.781 km/h.

Changing into the primary driver to win from pole at Monza since 2019, Verstappen has now inched nearer to Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton, who maintain the document for many wins on the Italian Grand Prix with 5.

5 – The qualifying session on the Italian Grand Prix noticed Max Verstappen safe pole place for the fifth time this season. Contemplating that he has solely transformed three pole positions right into a race victory this yr, it’s clear to see that Crimson Bull’s RB21 often presents extra efficiency on a single lap than over a race distance.

It’s a important change to the primary two seasons of the present ground-effect period the place the Milton Keynes-based squad’s tyre administration had been wonderful.

1.91 seconds – Ferrari had been the quickest staff within the pit lane at Zandvoort, however McLaren got here out on high eventually Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix.

The Woking-based accomplished Oscar Piastri’s sole tyre change in simply 1.91 seconds which is just 0.01 seconds slower than the document of the 2025 season.

Nearly the complete distance – Pirelli introduced comparatively smooth tyres (C5, C4 and C3) to Monza, however the degradation was unexpectedly low regardless of the smooth compounds and the excessive ambient and observe temperatures.

The longest stint of all got here courtesy of Esteban Ocon who did 51 laps on the Arduous which was solely two laps shorter than the complete race distance. The Haas driver began on the white-walled tyres, and pitted on Lap 51 to finish the remaining two laps on the smooth tyres.

Having completed second final Sunday, Lando Norris went furthest on the Medium finishing 46 laps. The red-walled compound was not a most well-liked alternative on Sunday, with Liam Lawson having accomplished essentially the most laps on the Comfortable with a nine-lap stint.

Fourteen – Fourteen drivers completed on the lead lap. The final driver, who was not lapped by race winner Max Verstappen, was Liam Lawson, ending up 82.251 second behind his former team-mate.

Seven – Seven completely different groups collected factors at Monza. Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren all ended up within the points-paying positions with each automobiles, whereas Williams, Sauber, Racing Bulls and Crimson Bull scored factors with just one automobile.

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