Circuit: Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Length: 5.793km
Laps: 53
Race distance: 307.029km
Corners: 8
Races: 69
Wins from pole: 27/39.13%
Number of winners: 37
Most successful team: Ferrari, 19 wins
Most successful driver: Michael Schumacher/Lewis Hamilton, 5 wins
Lap record: 1:21.046, set by Rubens Barrichello’s Ferrari in 2004
Lap record average speed: 257kph, 160mph
2019 Stats
Pole: 1:19.307 Charles Leclerc
Fastest Lap: 1:21.779 Lewis Hamilton
Podium: Charles Leclerc, Valtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton
Start time: 1310 GMT (1510 local)
Sunday’s race will be the 91th edition of the Italian Grand Prix, with the first staged at Monza in 1922.
The Italian race has been staged at Monza every year except 1980 when it was at Imola.
Kimi Raikkonen’s 2018 pole lap was at an average speed of 263.587 kph, the fastest in Formula One history.
The race has been won from pole position 11 times in the last 15 years.
Ferrari have won 19 times at Monza since the championship started, more than anyone else.
2019 stats
Charles Leclerc defeated the Mercedes duo en-route to securing Ferrari’s first win on home soil since 2010. The Scuderia also took their 19th Monza win, extending the record for the most victories by any constructor at a single F1 circuit. Here are some other notable facts and statistics from a competitive Italian Grand Prix.
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel can become only the second driver, and first since Britain’s Stirling Moss in the 1950s, to win at Monza with three different teams.
Moss won with Maserati, Vanwall and Cooper. Vettel has done so previously with Toro Rosso (2008) and Red Bull (2011 and 2013).
The Italian and British Grands Prix are the only ones to have been on the calendar in every year since the world championship started in 1950.
Leclerc saw off the fast-charging Valtteri Bottas to grab his second victory just a week after his maiden win in Belgium. He joins greats such as Bruce McLaren, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Mika Hakkinen and rival Lewis Hamilton to win their first races in the series at back-to-back Grands Prix.
With Hamilton and Leclerc battling for the lead, Bottas was able to close in on a fresh set of the medium compound tyres. As Hamilton dropped away, Bottas was best placed but was unable to capitalise. The Finn has now finished on the Monza podium for a third year in a row but has yet to grace the top step.
The tifosi may be bonkers for the scarlet red Ferraris, but there was also plenty of support for home talent Antonio Giovanazzi who secured his best career finish in ninth for Alfa Romeo to take two championship points.
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