Max Verstappen has won the Italian Grand Prix, taking his third grand prix victory of the season.<\/p>\n
Verstappen controlled the race for much of the 53 laps as he converted his pole position into a win ahead of the two McLarens.<\/p>\n
Lando Norris claimed second place on the road as he managed to take three points out of Oscar Piastri’s championship lead, with the latter crossing the line in third.<\/p>\n
However, it came after a controversial team order call late in the race, with McLaren opting to restore the positions after Norris dropped behind due to a slow pit stop.<\/p>\n
There was to be no home podium success for Ferrari, with Charles Leclerc sitting as the leading Italian car in fourth.<\/p>\n
A manic opening portion of laps commenced with Norris getting the jump on Verstappen off the line, which saw him briefly run onto the grass en route to Turn 1.<\/p>\n
Verstappen skipped the first corner as he claimed he was forced wide by his McLaren rival, before he was instructed to hand the place back to Norris.<\/p>\n
Verstappen obliged and followed Norris for another lap before launching an attack at Turn 1 at the start of lap four, successfully reclaiming the lead.<\/p>\n
A little further back, Piastri was having a battle with Leclerc as they swapped positions several times before Piastri consolidated third on lap six.<\/p>\n
As the pit stops approached, Verstappen continued to stretch out his lead over the McLaren pair as he went in hunt of his third win of the season.<\/p>\n
The first retirement of the race occurred on lap 25 of the race, with Fernando Alonso being the victim. He returned to the pit lane while reporting a suspension failure.<\/p>\n
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George Russell became the first of the front-runners to make a pit stop on lap 28, before he was followed in one lap later by team-mate Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n
Mercedes\u2019 rivals took their time responding to the stop, with Ferrari\u2019s Leclerc becoming the next to change his tyres on lap 34 on the hard tyres.<\/p>\n
A handful of laps later, race-leader Verstappen opted he had enough of the medium compound and switched to the hard tyre, briefly giving the race lead back to Norris.<\/p>\n
Hamilton became the second Ferrari to pit on the following lap, while further back in the pack, Carlos Sainz and Oliver Bearman collided at Turn 4 as they battled outside the points.<\/p>\n
Having run first and second for some time, McLaren initiated their pit stops with Piastri peeling in first while Norris continued on for one more lap.<\/p>\n
While Piastri\u2019s stop was a slick 1.9 seconds, Norris was held for several seconds longer due to a wheel gun issue, which saw him drop behind Piastri when he emerged back onto the track.<\/p>\n
McLaren ordered the cars to swap back around, with Norris reinstated in second place all the way to the chequered flag.<\/p>\n
With Verstappen, Norris and Piastri completing the top three, Ferrari were fourth and sixth with Leclerc and Hamilton respectively.<\/p>\n
Lodged between the two red cars was Mercedes\u2019 Russell.<\/p>\n
Alex Albon continued his strong season with a run to eighth, while Antonelli took the chequered flag in eighth before being demoted due to a five-second time penalty, gifting eighth to Bortoleto.<\/p>\n
Taking the final point on offer was Isack Hadjar, who rose to the top 10 after starting from the pit lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen has won the Italian Grand Prix, taking his third grand prix victory of the season. Verstappen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126396,"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-126395","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\/126395","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=126395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}