Overview

• Max Verstappen dominated the Italian Grand Prix by 19.2 seconds, adding the fastest race in Formula 1 history to a weekend that also featured the fastest-ever qualifying lap.
• After cutting the first chicane at the start and being told to cede position, Verstappen handed the lead to Lando Norris, then repassed him on lap four and controlled the race from there.
• McLaren pitted Oscar Piastri before Norris to cover Charles Leclerc, but a 5.9-second front-left wheel-gun issue on Norris’s stop dropped him behind his teammate.
• The team then ordered Piastri to let Norris back through; Piastri objected that a slow pit stop is part of racing but complied with the call on lap 49.
• Norris’s regained second place trimmed Piastri’s lead to 31 points with eight rounds left, as Leclerc took fourth and Mercedes pair George Russell and Lewis Hamilton finished fifth and sixth.