ROUND 15: 🇮🇹 Italy

FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO D’ITALIA 2026

Weekend Schedule

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  • Practice 1: Friday, 13:30 CEST | 11:30 UTC
  • Practice 2: Friday, 17:00 CEST | 15:00 UTC
  • Practice 3: Saturday, 12:30 CEST | 10:30 UTC
  • Qualifying: Saturday, 16:00 CEST | 14:00 UTC
  • Race: Sunday, 15:00 CEST | 13:00 UTC

Circuit stats & Tyres

  • First Grand Prix: 1950
  • Number of laps: 53
  • Circuit Length: 5.793 km
  • Race Distance: 306.720 km
  • Lap record: 1:21.046 Rubens Barrichello (2004)
  • 2025 Pole: Max Verstappen (1:18.834)
  • 2025 Fastest Lap: Lando Norris (1:21.350)
  • 2025 winner: Max Verstappen
  • Pirelli Tyres: C3 (Hard) ⚪, C4 (Medium) 🟡, C5 (Soft) 🔴
  • ninth_plane@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 hours ago

    If I had to find something to complain about, it would be the yo-yo overtakes with the overtake mode. At least the re-takes weren’t happening in the same lap, the drivers seemed to be a bit wiser at this track. How many overtakes was Piastri involved in?

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
      4·
      24 hours ago

      I have always liked Kimi. Decade back they asked him how he won and in his monotone accent he basically said something like “I take da toorns, I press da gas, da car go fast”. I’m paraphrasing, but his total lack of ego coming through is always funny to me.

  • ambitiousslab@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    22 hours ago

    What a good race! I wish there hadn’t been the need for a VSC, a whole race of those first ~20 laps would’ve been awesome.

  • mamg22@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    24 hours ago

    Nice race, I’m not a Mercedes fan but gotta say that’s a great drive from Kimi, and good defense from George on those wasted tires. Ferrari though, guess home race curse had to hit someone and it wasn’t gonna be the ex-teenager.

    Audi once again just out of the points aahhh. This track didn’t seem to fit them at all, no good pace through the weekend. At least good enough to almost kick Hamilton out in Q2.

    And the Aston Martin magic they had at Zandvoort seems to have already faded out, back to your regular backmarker racing.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
      5·
      23 hours ago

      And the Aston Martin magic they had at Zandvoort seems to have already faded out, back to your regular backmarker racing.

      Zandvoort is a downforce track where the chassis is the most important, almost a Monaco light. It seems their chassis is alright after the post-summer break upgrades. Monza meanwhile is a power track. Around 80% full throttle and testing mostly the engine. Unsurprisingly Aston suffers here as the Honda PU is still a train wreck. In fact, I saw some measurements that the Aston was embarrassingly close to F3 top speeds here at Monza this year, let alone F2.

      • mamg22@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        22 hours ago

        Huh, interesting. So the summer engine upgrade didn’t help much last time because the aero did the heavylifting? Damn, thought AM could become competitive in the midfield, but I’ve been fooled by Honda.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
          2·
          22 hours ago

          I too was fooled but, in fairness around the time of the engine upgrade last race Honda were talking about Next YearTM, and it seems maybe there was a reason for it. This should be Aston’s worst track of the year (although I can’t imagine Baku being happy fun times for them either), but I would not expect miracles this season. Maybe another points finish, if we’re lucky.