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Hamilton accepts responsibility for Piastri clash

Lewis Hamilton says he apologized to Oscar Piastri after the Italian Grand Prix for causing a collision that stopped the rookie from scoring points. The Mercedes driver was overtaking Piastri for eighth place on the run to the second chicane when he …

Lewis Hamilton says he apologized to Oscar Piastri after the Italian Grand Prix for causing a collision that stopped the rookie from scoring points.

The Mercedes driver was overtaking Piastri for eighth place on the run to the second chicane when he moved back towards the racing line under braking and clipped the front left wheel of the McLaren, damaging its front wing. Piastri had to make an extra pit stop and dropped out of the points, with Hamilton handed a five-second time penalty and taking full responsibility.

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“I apologized because it was obviously my fault,” Hamilton said. “And it naturally wasn’t intentional. I got up alongside and just misjudged the gap that I had to the right, clipped him and it could happen anytime. But I knew shortly afterwards, it must have been my fault. So, I wanted to make sure he knew that it wasn’t intentional. And that’s what gentlemen do, right?”

Piastri accepted the apology, saying he was satisfied with Hamilton’s reaction to the incident.

“Obviously not the afternoon we were looking for,” Piastri said. “I don’t think a whole lot went right, to be honest with you. The contact with Lewis was the biggest point. He apologized and the stewards gave out a penalty. I can’t ask for anything other than that. It’s cool.”

Hamilton still managed to negate the time penalty he received as he overtook Lando Norris and Alex Albon to run sixth, pulling over seven seconds clear of the Williams, even though he’d felt it would be a tall order to make his medium tires last to the end of the race after his pit stop.

“I definitely wasn’t upset. I was just supposed to go to lap 35 and the pace didn’t feel that great at that point,” he explained. “But they stopped me. The lap I pitted they said that I was going to target and then all of a sudden they boxed me. So, I was a little bit confused with that, that’s all.

“And then I was definitely concerned that I might not make it to the end. The gap was large between myself and the McLarens, I dropped back behind an Aston. So, I didn’t ,at that point, realize what my trajectory might be. But I took care of the tires, closed the gap and had that good battle.

“Races are pretty straightforward for me, so I’ve just got to do better in qualifying, so it’s not such a difficult day. And just living with the car that we have at the moment. (In Monza) it’s the third fastest car and it’s obviously painful for all of us. We wish we were quicker. But we’re just counting down the days to February.”

Sainz recovers watch after attempted robbery in Milan

Carlos Sainz was subjected to an attempted robbery just hours after finishing on the podium in the Italian Grand Prix. The Spaniard was in Milan on Sunday evening after his third-place finish at Ferrari’s home race, when his Richard Mille watch – …

Carlos Sainz was subjected to an attempted robbery just hours after finishing on the podium in the Italian Grand Prix.

The Spaniard was in Milan on Sunday evening after his third-place finish at Ferrari’s home race, when his Richard Mille watch — worth hundreds of thousands of dollars — was taken by thieves who attempted to flee on foot. Sainz and his team managed to chase down the attackers and prevent them from escaping, recovering his timepiece as those who had attempted to steal it were arrested by police.

Videos circulating on social media show the aftermath of the chase, with a number of bystanders reported to also have helped stop the thieves. Nobody was hurt in the incident.

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Sainz had finished on the podium for the second time at Monza — but his first as a Ferrari driver — earlier on Sunday, starting from pole but slipping behind the Red Bull pair of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez before holding off team-mate Charles Leclerc in a thrilling battle to the flag.

It’s not the first occasion a driver has been targeted in public, with Lando Norris recently having his Richard Mille watch stolen at the final of the Euro 2020 soccer championships in London, when the McLaren driver mugged as he was returning to his car after the game.

Ferrari drivers enjoyed podium fight despite its anxious moments for the team

Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc both backed the decision from Ferrari to allow them to fight each other for the podium until the end of the Italian Grand Prix, even if it made for nervous viewing for the team and its fans. Ferrari told the pair …

Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc both backed the decision from Ferrari to allow them to fight each other for the podium until the end of the Italian Grand Prix, even if it made for nervous viewing for the team and its fans.

Ferrari told the pair they were free to race for the final spot on the podium at Monza, with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez having made their way past polesitter Sainz by that stage. In the closing laps, the two Ferraris went wheel-to-wheel on multiple occasions, each locking up and coming close to contact but Sainz held on and says he didn’t mind the call despite the threat to his position.

“I would have understood it both ways,” Sainz said. “If they had used team orders I would have understood. If I was Charles trying to get a podium I wouldn’t have liked the team orders, so it completely depends on the position you are in.

“I am not going to lie — it very much depends on a very subjective position or feeling. I think it was on the limit, but it was a nice, fair teammate battle, which at the end of the day is also what you guys (media) want to see. I had fun doing it.

“I never felt too much of a risk. With a teammate you are always a bit more tense — (you leave) a bit more space, because it’s the last thing you want in Monza, in front of the Tifosi, the two Ferraris to touch. But I think we had a tough battle; we managed to keep it clean and it was good fun.

“I had fun with Charles, but I also had fun with Max and Checo. I would prefer to be the one attacking than the one defending, but today it was my turn to defend and I think I did that well.”

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Although he finished fourth and missed out on a home podium, Leclerc was similarly supportive of having been allowed to challenge right up to the final lap.

“To be honest, I feel good,” Leclerc said. “OK, I missed the podium, but Carlos is on it anyway, so a Ferrari is on there. I would have been disappointed if it was a boring race and we just finished fourth like we did now, but in the end, it was really fun. I enjoyed it a lot.

“I’m sure many people did not enjoy that — the guys on the pit wall perhaps had one heart attack or two, the Tifosi probably also — but for me, this is Formula 1, this is what it should be all the time.

“With Max, I’ve had these kinds of fights in the past, today was with Checo and Carlos. We, I think, were always at the limit of the regulations, whether it was defending or attacking and that’s exactly how I enjoy racing. So it was fun. Congrats to Carlos — he’s been really on it since the first lap in FP1, but I’m happy today.”

Verstappen ‘very proud’ after waiting for Sainz mistake for new wins record

Max Verstappen says he had to wait for “a tiny mistake” from Carlos Sainz to take the lead of the Italian Grand Prix and secure a record-breaking 10th win in a row. Sainz started from pole position and retained his lead off the line, with Verstappen …

Max Verstappen says he had to wait for “a tiny mistake” from Carlos Sainz to take the lead of the Italian Grand Prix and secure a record-breaking 10th win in a row.

Sainz started from pole position and retained his lead off the line, with Verstappen stuck between the two Ferrari drivers in the opening part of the race at Monza. Once he found his way into the lead on lap 15, Verstappen was able to pull away and broke the record for consecutive wins he had previously held with Sebastian Vettel.

“Of course it’s something you don’t expect to happen,” Verstappen said. “I never thought in the beginning of the season that something like this was possible. Yeah, very proud, but also just very happy, I think, with the race in general. We had good pace again — we could look after our tires. It was quite an interesting little battle in the beginning to try and get a move into Turn 1, but we just didn’t have the top speed to do so.

“I just had to wait for a tiny mistake or a tiny lock-up, whatever, and at one point, Carlos had a little lock-up which then made me have a good run out of Turn 2, and once I got in the lead, I could just focus on my own pace. The car felt really nice to drive.

“Honestly, I’m just very proud also of the whole team effort the whole year. What we’re doing at the moment, winning every race this year, is something that we definitely are enjoying, because I don’t think these kind of seasons come around very often, and that’s the same of course with winning 10 in a row.”

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Behind Verstappen there was further action with Sergio Perez climbing through to take second ahead of the squabbling Ferrari drivers, but the Dutchman — who had to slow his pace late on to deal with overheating — believes the grid order is what set up the battles in the race.

Verstappen had to fight his way past the Ferrari of Sainz in Monza. Zak Mauger/Motorsport Images

“I think in general, it’s still hard to pass around here. I think up at the front, it’s also because we were behind them, so we were faster and we had to pass. I don’t know, I don’t think it’s track specific. Also, here in qualifying sometimes, you can maybe jump one or two places but then in the race drop back. So it creates more overtaking, or at least the chance of possible fights. I don’t think it’s always the track.

“I haven’t spoken to the team yet about what the (overheating) issue was. They just told me what I had to do, and I did that to the end. Luckily we had the gap behind, so I could take it quite easy to the end.”

Verstappen breaks consecutive wins record with Monza triumph

Max Verstappen cruised to a record-breaking 10th consecutive victory after seizing the lead from pole-getter Carlos Sainz after 15 laps. Verstappen had been confident ahead of the race that his Red Bull Racing car had the better race pace, and by …

Max Verstappen cruised to a record-breaking 10th consecutive victory after seizing the lead from pole-getter Carlos Sainz after 15 laps.

Verstappen had been confident ahead of the race that his Red Bull Racing car had the better race pace, and by lap 4 of the grand prix he was already noting that the leading Ferrari car was struggling with its tires.

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On lap 6, Verstappen was testing Sainz’s defenses with an attempted move around the outside into the first turn, though the Spaniard rebuffed him easily by closing the door through the chicane. But what seemed like only a matter of time suddenly started to appear in doubt. Charles Leclerc, who had held third off the line, closed in on the battling duo and threatened to turn the race into a brawl.

“They have a lot of top speed, for f*** sake,” Verstappen said, his voice suddenly agitated.

Again and again Sainz returned the Dutchman’s volleys, perfectly placing his car to neutralize the threat. It wasn’t until the Spaniard made a small lock-up into he first turn on lap 15 that Verstappen finally got his chance.

The top speed of the Ferraris gave Verstappen a little more work to do, but once through the Red Bull driver was firmly in control once again. Simon Galloway/Motorsport Images

Verstappen got the better line through the chicane to get a great exit and take Sainz side by side through Curva Grande. Sainz was later on the brakes into the Roggia chicane, but he’d been forced onto the outside line.

Now Verstappen was perfectly placing his car. His RB19 sat on the racing line and powered out of the chicane with a lead that grew rapidly to a full second by the end of the lap, and the race was as good as won, eclipsing Sebastian Vettel’s record of nine consecutive victories.

“I never would’ve believed that was possible,” he said. “We had to work for it today, so that made it more fun.

“We had good pace. I think we were good on the tires. But they had a lot of top speed. It was so hard to get close and get a move into Turn 1, so I had to keep the pressure and force a mistake.”

Sergio Perez made Ferrari’s defeat comprehensive by recovering from fifth on the grid to record a Red Bull one-two.

He slipstreamed his way easily enough past George Russell to take fourth, but he couldn’t lay a hand on Charles Leclerc until lap 32, when the Monegasque fell out of DRS range of his teammate ahead, leaving him vulnerable to a draft into Turn 1.

He pulled the same move on Sainz with five laps to spare to score just his sixth top-two finish of the season.

“I think second was basically the maximum we could’ve achieved today,” he said. “We were lacking some top speed today. To get though Charles and to get through Carlos was pretty insane, because I had to use a lot of my tires.”

The battle to complete the podium went down to the wire between the two Ferrari teammates, who were told they were free to race so long as they did so with “no risk.”

Sainz’s tires had taken the greater battering over the course of the race, but his defensive work was undimmed. Leclerc had only one good look a the rostrum on lap 47, when he slipstreamed his way past into the first turn, but the Monegasque locked up, reopening the door to his teammate in much the same way Sainz’s earlier lock-up had invited Verstappen into the lead.

Sainz didn’t need asking again, seizing back the place into Roggia and holding it to the flag.

“Very tough,” he said. “It cannot get any tougher than what it was today.

“The whole race I was pushing very, very hard to keep the Red Bulls behind. It was tough, hard racing … we had fun out there today.”

Russell led home Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton in fifth and sixth, both after serving five-second penalties — the former for overtaking Esteban Ocon off the track and the latter for colliding with Oscar Piastri late in the race.

Hamilton was attempting to crowd the Australian to the edge of the track from the inside of the approach to Roggia when he made contact that forced Piastri back to pit lane for a new front wing, dropping the McLaren driver out of the points.

Alex Albon completed a typically fighting defensive drive to seventh, holding off an assault from Lando Norris behind him by just 0.3s, with Fernando Alonso just 0.8s further back. Valtteri Bottas completed the top 10 for the final point of the race.

Ferrari’s Monza package not just for sentiment – Clear

Ferrari’s decision to bring a bespoke package to the Italian Grand Prix despite the limitations of the cost cap is not just a sentimental choice but the right call performance-wise, according to Jock Clear. Carlos Sainz took his first pole position …

Ferrari’s decision to bring a bespoke package to the Italian Grand Prix despite the limitations of the cost cap is not just a sentimental choice but the right call performance-wise, according to Jock Clear.

Carlos Sainz took his first pole position of the season at Monza – with Charles Leclerc third and just 0.067s adrift of his teammate – as the Scuderia made the most of its low-downforce car at its home race. A number of other teams have adapted existing parts for the circuit characteristics, but senior performance engineer Clear says it became obvious in the opening races this year that Ferrari could be particularly competitive in Italy.

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“I was going to say, go figure!” Clear said. “Have you seen how much red there is out in the crowd?! Obviously there is a cost cap and everyone has to decide what they want to spend money on, and nowadays it is a unique race and the only place where we would run absolutely low downforce.

“But given that early in the season we recognized that lower downforce was suiting us better, it would have been silly for us, not just from a sentimental point of view and not just because the crowd is full of red, but it’s clearly a circuit that is going to benefit us, and we knew that a few months ago.

“Doing a bespoke package for here was the right thing to do from a performance point of view and of course it comes with a Ferrari being on pole at Monza, and that is worth a huge amount to all of us, as motivation to crowd, the Tifosi, the drivers, there is nothing better.”

And although Max Verstappen was competitive enough to be within 0.013s of pole position despite Red Bull not bringing a Monza-only rear wing, Clear says beating the championship leader should not be underestimated.

“I don’t think there’s any alarm. To be brutally honest with you – and not wishing to blow smoke up Red Bull’s arse – a car that strong and a driver that strong, we are over the moon to be ahead of them. That is a real achievement.

“They are on song, that car works everywhere and they may not have brought a specific wing package for here, but we very much appreciate the competition they represent at every race and to be ahead of them is fantastic.”

Verstappen ‘not surprised’ by Ferrari pace

Max Verstappen says he is not shocked by Ferrari’s pace at the Italian Grand Prix, despite being beaten to a pole position by the Scuderia for the first time since Baku. Carlos Sainz secured his first pole of the season in a thrilling qualifying …

Max Verstappen says he is not shocked by Ferrari’s pace at the Italian Grand Prix, despite being beaten to a pole position by the Scuderia for the first time since Baku.

Carlos Sainz secured his first pole of the season in a thrilling qualifying session at Monza, edging out Verstappen by 0.013s, with Charles Leclerc 0.067s off pole in third. That marks the first time Ferrari has been quicker than Red Bull in a qualifying session since Leclerc’s pole in Baku back in April, but Verstappen says he was expecting a challenge over one lap.

“I’m not really surprised — they were quite quick here last year as well,” Verstappen said. “If you look at their rear wing, it’s quite well optimized for Monza. If you look at our wing, for one lap it is maybe not the best optimization but for a race it should be better. Nothing shocking, to be honest.

“So far this year, yes (Red Bull has been quicker) so hopefully it will be the same tomorrow.”

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Verstappen said the signs that Ferrari would be tough to beat were clear throughout the qualifying session, and the fact he bounced back from a difficult Friday leaves him content to be on the front row.

“It was just very tight — you could see it through Q1, Q2, Q3, every run you could see we were very closely matched,” he noted. “This weekend for us — especially from my side I think — Friday was a little bit more tricky but we can’t really complain. I had so many weekends in a row where we put the car on the track and it has been easy going and really well set up.

“It seemed like here it was a little more difficult to find the right trade-off with downforce for us, but I was very happy this morning, I thought the car was working well for one lap and on the long run as well. So I’m happy with second, to be honest. Here in Monza it’s always very tight — sometimes you might jump ahead, sometimes you are just behind, but I am confident for tomorrow.”

Overjoyed Sainz promises to make ‘life as complicated as possible’ for rivals in Italian GP

Carlos Sainz says Ferrari will make Red Bull’s life “as complicated as possible” in the Italian Grand Prix after securing pole position for his team’s home race. Ferrari has looked quick all weekend and Sainz capitalized with the fourth pole …

Carlos Sainz says Ferrari will make Red Bull’s life “as complicated as possible” in the Italian Grand Prix after securing pole position for his team’s home race.

Ferrari has looked quick all weekend and Sainz capitalized with the fourth pole position of his career, edging out Max Verstappen by just 0.013s while Charles Leclerc secured third. Having said Ferrari fans could “dream” after setting the pace on Friday, Sainz says it’s not out of the question he can make it tough for Red Bull over a race distance given his starting position, even if he still calls Verstappen the favorite.

“We’ve got the motivation and the energy to do it,” Sainz said. “The car has been very good all weekend, especially over one lap. What we have seen from the long runs, I’m not going to lie — it’s trickier and not the same picture as qualifying. Red Bull, as soon as you put five or six laps on the tire and everything starts to degrade a bit, that’s where their strength is, and the race pace we have seen all year. But hopefully I can get a better start and then make Max’s and Checo’s (Perez) and Charles’ life as difficult as possible.

“We are willing to work through it as a team and give it our best shot. It’s a good opportunity tomorrow; realistically the Red Bull should be quicker, but we are just going to try to make their life as complicated as possible and try to take the win.

“I think it can happen — nothing is impossible tomorrow, especially starting from P1. At the start I am going to do everything I can to stay ahead of Max and I think that looking back at this year, 100 percent of races they have been quicker, and clearly quicker, so that makes me feel like it is not going to be easy at all.

“They are going to try to find a way past one way or another, but if something could happen we would have a very good day tomorrow and get the win. So I’m just going to try and go into tomorrow with the mindset to win the race and then adapt to the circumstances and race pace of Verstappen.”

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Saturday’s qualifying led to Sainz’s first pole position in Italy and the Spaniard feels he delivered one of his finest performances to secure an extremely popular result in front of the Tifosi.

“It’s difficult to put into words, to describe the feeling. It’s just amazing, the whole weekend since we arrived here on Wednesday — the support and the feeling with the crowd, the energy they put into us, it’s incredible. I had my birthday yesterday, so that gave me a good feeling and good vibes.

“I was very comfortable with the car and I put together one of my best laps in Q3 to set pole. Tight with these two (Verstappen and Leclerc), like it used to be last year, I enjoyed it a lot, that lap.”

Sainz beats Verstappen to win home pole for Ferrari

Carlos Sainz put a Ferrari on pole position at the Italian Grand Prix after edging out Max Verstappen for the top spot in a thrilling qualifying hour in Monza. The Scuderia looked down for the count in the earlier qualifying segments, when revised …

Carlos Sainz put a Ferrari on pole position at the Italian Grand Prix after edging out Max Verstappen for the top spot in a thrilling qualifying hour in Monza.

The Scuderia looked down for the count in the earlier qualifying segments, when revised rules mandated drivers use the hard and medium tires on the way to Q3, but the margins closed to practically nothing once the softs broke cover, and the tight picture was resumed.

Ferrari gave the packed grandstands hope after the first runs, with Sainz leading Charles Leclerc for a provisional front-row lockout with Verstappen in third, but the trio was split by just 0.099s — and Verstappen had had his best lap compromised by running marginally wide and onto the gravel exiting the Roggia chicane.

Leclerc led Verstappen and Sainz out of pit lane for the final runs, and again there was little to pick between them. Leclerc was fastest in the first sector to move to top spot, while Verstappen snatched P1 for himself with a purple final split.

But it was Sainz with an unbeatable middle sector who sealed the deal, seizing pole by 0.013s ahead of Verstappen and 0.067s from his teammate to send Ferrari’s home fans into raptures.

“It’s been such an intense qualifying,” Sainz said. “We all three went for it. We were very, very on the limit.

“The last lap I knew I had some lap time to come in Ascari and Parabolica, and I went for it, and it went well. I really pushed hard on that last lap.”

But the Spaniard was more cautious about promising a conversion from pole to victory.

“Tomorrow I’m going to give it everything to hold onto that P1,” he said. “A good start, a good first stint, and see if we can battle Max. Normally in the long runs he’s quicker, but I’m going to give it all.”

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Verstappen appeared completely unperturbed at missing out on the pole. Red Bull Racing’s race pace looked strong even from the limited practice running on Friday, and the Dutchman will have a good chance of winning a record-breaking 10th consecutive race with a good launch from the inside of the front row.

“I think we made some good improvements compared to yesterday,” he said. “In qualifying you could see every qualifying session was tight, so I’m happy to be second today.

“Of course tomorrow we’ll try to win the race. Normally we have the quicker race car.”

Leclerc completed an admirable recovery from an anonymous practice campaign to come close to topping qualifying, with the Monegasque noting that he was the only one of the top three without a slipstream for his final flying lap.

“On my side I’m a bit disappointed,” he said. “I obviously wanted to be first, but seeing Carlos is P1 is great for Ferrari. He’s done an incredible job all weekend.”

George Russell headed the next group of cars in fourth, but the Briton was 0.377s off the pace, with Mercedes never in contention for the front row.

Sergio Perez was a lackluster 0.394s off pole and will start fifth, less than 0.1s ahead of Williams driver Alex Albon in a predictably impressive drive to sixth on the grid.

McLaren teammates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris were seventh and ninth to sandwich a downcast Lewis Hamilton in eighth, the Briton complaining about a lack of grip throughout qualifying.

Fernando Alonso completed the top 10 for Aston Martin in a surprisingly uncompetitive showing 1.1s off the pace.

AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda came within 0.013s of a spot in top 10 and will start 11th ahead of temporary teammate Liam Lawson, who impressively was just 0.164s shy of the Japanese driver.

Nico Hulkenberg qualified 13th for Haas ahead of Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas and a frustrated Logan Sargeant, whose medium-tire laps were slower than his best time on the hards from Q1.

Zhou Guanyu will start 16th, the Chinese driver the first of those knocked out of Q1 on the hard tire.

Alpine teammates Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon never looked likely to escape the bottom five once qualifying got underway, and the pair ended up closely matched in 17th and 18th, Ocon having taken a lightly damaging trip through the gravel at Ascari partway through the session.

Kevin Magnussen qualified ninth for Haas ahead of an underwhelming Lance Stroll, who was more than 0.2s off the back of the pack in his Aston Martin.

Sainz back on top in final Italy practice

Carlos Sainz pipped Max Verstappen to top spot of final practice at the Italian Grand Prix to set up an intriguing qualifying session in Monza. The third practice hour was mostly sedate, with teams preserving what ties they have left under Pirelli’s …

Carlos Sainz pipped Max Verstappen to top spot of final practice at the Italian Grand Prix to set up an intriguing qualifying session in Monza.

The third practice hour was mostly sedate, with teams preserving what ties they have left under Pirelli’s reduced allocation rules, but the session came alive in the final quarter with a flurry of qualifying simulation laps.

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Verstappen rocketed to top spot first, but Sainz usurped him atop the order shortly afterwards with a best time of 1m 20.912s, pipping the Dutchman by only 0.086s.

Sainz’s advantage was largely accumulated in the flat-out first sector, while Verstappen was at an advantage in the final split, comprising Ascari and Parabolica.

Lewis Hamilton made Mercedes the next best team, but the Briton was mystified by the 0.541-second gap to the front, with his deficit spread around the lap.

Charles Leclerc abandoned his first flying lap on softs after running wide exiting the second Lesmo and bottoming out on the curbs. He returned to pit lane for checks and was able to rejoin the session, but by then the best of his tires were spent, leaving him fourth and 0.574s slower than his teammate.

He fared better than the sister Red Bull car, in which Sergio Perez was unable to set a flying lap on new rubber at all after his team discovered an oil leak in the back of his RB19 partway through the session. It couldn’t be repaired before the end of the hour, leaving him 10th.

Fernando Alonso was fifth for Aston Martin ahead of George Russell and Haas teammates Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg and the omnipresent Williams of Alex Albon.

Lance Stroll turned his first timed lap of the entire weekend on his way to 11th place. The Canadian gave up his car to reserve driver Felipe Drugovich in FP1 and then lost all of the second session to a fuel system problem, leaving him down on track time.

He completed 31 laps in the final practice session, the most of any driver, to make up for lost time.

Liam Lawson beat AlphaTauri teammate Yuki Tsunoda to 12th by just 0.001s.

Oscar Piastri put in a messy session for 14th, including an off-track excursion at the Roggia chicane on an out lap and then a collision with Sainz in a botched overtaking attempt at Rettifilo, for which the stewards opened a post-session inquiry.

Logan Sargeant ended the day 15th ahead of Valtteri Bottas, Lando Norris, Esteban Ocon, Zhou Guanyu and Pierre Gasly.