The 2022 F1 Italian Grand Prix, which became Ferrari’s home race, did not go as expected, and Charles Leclerc finished second behind Max Verstappen (Red Bull). But Scuderia Ferrari produced impressive numbers.
Max Verstappen, who started from 7th on the grid in the race that ended under the guidance of the safety car, won 5 consecutive wins with overwhelming speed, his 11th win of the season and 31st win in total.
● There have been 12 races finished behind the safety car. The latest is Belgium in 2021 and before that Bahrain in 2020.
● Max Verstappen wins from seven different grid positions in one season. He extended the record he had already broken at Spa-Francorchamps.
• There are still six races left in 2022, but Max Verstappen’s 11th victory of the year surpassed his wins from 2021.
• Max Verstappen’s five-game winning streak is the longest of his career.
• Max Verstappen has a mathematical chance of winning the title at the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix.
● Until this tournament, Red Bull Racing had never achieved a podium at Monza in the hybrid era.
• Monza was the only circuit where Max Verstappen never finished on the podium.
● Charles Leclerc took back-to-back podium finishes in the first three races of the year.
● George Russell’s 3rd place finish was his 7th podium of the year.
● This means that Mercedes has completed 13 podiums without winning this year. This is an F1 record.
● George Russell is just seven points behind third-placed Sergio Perez in the Drivers’ Championship.
● George Russell has 15 top-five finishes in 16 races this year.
• Carlos Sainz started 18th on the grid and finished 4th.
● Ferrari became the first team in the history of constructors to surpass 10,000 points.
● Lewis Hamilton finished 5th from 19th on the grid. This is his best finish at Monza since 2019.
• Sergio Pérez scored points at Monza for the ninth year in a row, with sixth place and the extra points for the fastest lap.
● Lando Norris finished 7th again this year, finishing 7th in 5 of the last 6 races. She finished 7th in the championship.
● Pierre Gasly in 8th place had only scored 2 points in the last 8 races.
• Ninth-placed Nick de Vries becomes the 67th driver to score on his F1 race debut and the first to do so for Williams since Nico Rosberg in 2006 in Bahrain.
• Nick de Vries scored points for Williams after driving for Aston Martin in Friday’s FP1.
● 10th-placed Zhou Guanyu put an end to Alfa Romeo’s 6-race no-go record.
● Fernando Alonso failed to finish and Esteban Ocon finished in 11th, giving Alpine his second no points of the year. Coincidentally, both races were held in Italy (Imola and Monza).
• DNF’s Fernando Alonso lined up with Kimi Raikkonen for his 349th F1 start. It put an end to 10 consecutive race point acquisition.
– Retired Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll was the only driver to have completed every race so far in 2022.
Category: F1 / F1 Italian Grand Prix