Hamilton takes 40th career victory in Monza

With a dose of drama to the mix at the end of the race, Lewis Hamilton won the seventh victory of the 2015 Formula 1 season with the victory at the Italian Grand Prix. In Monza the Brit achieved his 40th win in grand prix. Nico Rosberg retired from the race a few laps before the end of the race.

 

Departing in pole position, Hamilton remained in the lead after the start, while Rosberg dropped to sixth place and Kimi Raikkonen, who started alongside the British driver, fell down the order to the back of the pack.

 

From then Lewis Hamilton dominated the race but was caught by surprise in the last stages of the race by a request without explanation from his team, asking him to force the pace but with caution. The reason, the stewards had identified a technical problem in the pressure of the tires of the in the starting grid, so the team would risk suffering a penalty. The Brit eventually finished the race 25 seconds ahead of FerrariFerrariItaly, 1947 > present233 models
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's Sebastian Vettel.

 

Rosberg returned to lose ground in the World Championship standings with a retirement in the closing stages of the race. The engine broke when the German was still behind Vettel in third. With this result Hamilton now has 53 points of advantage to Rosberg in the championship.

 

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' Felipe Massa inherited Rosberg's third place, finishing ahead of his teammate Valteri Bottas, while Raikkonen made yet another great recovery to finish fifth.

 

The updated version of Force IndiaForce IndiaIndia, 2007 > present8 models
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's car impressed yet again with Sergio Perez finishing in sixth place ahead of teammate Nico Hulkenberg. With this result the team recovered fifth place in the constructors' championship, benefiting from the retiremente of the two Lotus early in the race.

 

Daniel Ricciardo of Red BullRed BullAustria, 2004 > present12 models
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battled back from 19th place up to eighth, while his team-mate closed the group of scoring drivers. Marcus Ericsson scored for SauberSauberSwitzerland, 1970 > present21 models
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for the third consecutive race, finishing in ninth place.

 

Now check the Drivers' and Manufacturers' standings.

 

 

 

Results Italian Grand Prix

Pos	Driver	Car	Gap
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1h18m00.688s
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	25.042s
3	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	47.635s
4	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	47.996s
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m08.860s
6	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m12.783s
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1 Lap
8	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1 Lap
9	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1 Lap
10	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1 Lap
11	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1 Lap
12	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1 Lap
13	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1 Lap
14	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1 Lap
15	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	2 Laps
16	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	2 Laps
17	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	Engine
18	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	Electrical
-	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	Collision
-	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	Collision