Max Verstappen has been backed by Formula 1 fans to deal McLaren a blow at Monza, by winning the Italian Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four-time world champion starts the Italian GP from pole position after setting a new Monza lap record, which also broke the record for the highest average speed across a lap.<\/p>\n
It was another stunning Verstappen pole lap, with McLaren having no choice but to settle for second and third on the grid \u2013 Lando Norris will start ahead of Oscar Piastri.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following his remarkable pole lap, in a RacingNews365 poll, the Dutchman has been backed by 37.44% of voters to claim grand prix victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Interestingly, championship leader Piastri received the second-most votes at 26.42%, ahead of the 18.88% who back Norris to bounce back from his Zandvoort retirement with a win.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joining Piastri on the second row is last year’s Monza winner Charles Leclerc, who claimed victory 12 months ago from fourth on the grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, just 8.36% expect the Ferrari driver to replicate what he did last year, while 6.29% believe Lewis Hamilton will perform the impossible from 10th on the grid.<\/p>\n
Check out the full poll results below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has been backed by Formula 1 fans to deal McLaren a blow at Monza, by winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-126147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}