{"id":121998,"date":"2025-09-08T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121998\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:09:09","slug":"2025-italian-grand-prix-race-report-difficult-italian-grand-prix-at-monza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/121998\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Italian Grand Prix &#8211; Race Report: Difficult Italian Grand Prix at Monza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell finished P5 and Kimi Antonelli P9 in today\u2019s Italian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers lined up on the third row of the grid on the Medium tyre, George P5 and Kimi P6.<\/p>\n<p>George maintained his position on the opening lap but Kimi unfortunately dropped to P10 having suffered from excess wheelspin off the line.<\/p>\n<p>Having threatened the Ferrari of Leclerc early, George dropped back to manage his tyres before boxing for the Hard compound on lap 27.<\/p>\n<p>Having cleared the Red Bull of Tsunoda on track for P9, Kimi then deployed his pace to overcut several cars ahead. <\/p>\n<p>He stopped on lap 28 and rejoined in a net P7, also on the Hard compound tyre.<\/p>\n<p>As others pitted, George and Kimi cycled through the field. Kimi was unable to hold off the Medium shod Williams of Alex Albon and dropped to P8. <\/p>\n<p>Kimi was adjudged to have forced Albon off track as part of the move and was handed a five-second time penalty. That dropped him to P9 behind Bortoleto in the final standings.<\/p>\n<p>For George, he ran a lonely second stint to come home in P5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Russell finished P5 and Kimi Antonelli P9 in today\u2019s Italian Grand Prix. Both drivers lined up on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-121998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}