Formula 1: Italian Grand Prix 2017
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Qualifying – Saturday 2 September 2017
Race – Sunday 3 September 2017
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Some Stats About the Italian Grand Prix
- CIRCUIT LENGTH – 5.793 km (3.599 mi)
- NUMBER OF LAPS – 53
- RACE DISTANCE – 306.72 km (190.59 mi)
- LAP RECORD – 1:21.046 (Rubens Barrichello 2004)
- FIRST GRAND PRIX – 1950
- MOST WINS – 5 (Michael Schumacher)
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Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken D'Italia 2017, Autodromo Nazionale Monza - Welcome to race 13 of the season. Home of Ferrari on the Monza circuit.
Monza has hosted all of the F1 Grand Prix races, except in 1980, when it was held at Imola.
But this circuit is an old boy, like the British Grand Prix. It has seen many famous Drivers, with the history reverberating through the trees surrounding it.
Filled with an incredible list of races, victories, historic moments and unfortunately some horrific crashes as well. Monza has hosted the most F1 GP races. With fast straights and chicanes, will this be an interesting race.
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But what can we expect this weekend?
With this being Ferrari's home race would you expect them to have the upper hand. Sebastian Vettel is 7 points ahead of rival Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, but Free Practice 1 and 2 showed the prancing horse to be slightly off pace.
Free Practice 1 had the previous race winner, Hamilton leading the pack in front of team mate Valtteri Bottas. Mercedes took the early lead, with Ferrari off with half a second, but filling up the second row.
As expected, Red Bull Racing filling up the third row, both Force India's in the forth row. No contact between the two, yet!
Free Practice two had a swop at the front, with Bottas recording the fastest lap time, Hamilton second. Vettel closed the half a second gap to 1/10th of a second. Kimi filled 4th, keeping the prancing horse on the Merc boys heels.
Red Bull remained in the third row, with McLaren's Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorn taking the 4th row!
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Ferrari
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel is currently leading the Drivers Championship and it is said that he is in a very happy mood this weekend, despite some expecting him to feel the pressure.
Celebrating their 70th anniversary here this weekend would I say that the man will have to perform, as a driver has to trust his car a lot. They run with low down force and the cars are heavy on the brakes.
With the weather forecast changing every hour, will it be a very challenging Qualifying and Race.
It's been seven years since the prancing horse has seen the checkered flag first, let's see how hungry they are for the win.
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Penalties
Going in to qualifying, will the following drivers receive penalties, due to them having to replace some parts on their cars.
The penalties will be given in the order the drivers first left the pit lane and applied after Qualifying.
- Daniel Ricciardo - 20 place penalty
- Carlos Sainz - 10 place penalty
- Fernando Alonso - 35 place penalty
- Max Verstappen - 15 place penalty
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DON'T MISS THE ACTION!
- Qualifying Sat 2 Sept 14:00 – 15:00 (UCT +2)
- Race Sun 3 Sept 14:00 – 16:00 (UCT +2)
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