Max Verstappen wins F1 Italian Grand Prix at Monza

The four-time satellite champion earned his 3rd Italian Grand Prix astatine the celebrated way and is the archetypal operator to triumph from rod presumption astatine Monza since 2019.

Max Verstappen claimed a ascendant triumph astatine the Italian Grand Prix connected Sunday up of rubric contenders and McLaren teammates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

It was a archetypal triumph since May for Verstappen – and lone his 3rd of the play – and capped a fantastic play astatine Monza for the four-time satellite champion, who had posted the fastest thigh successful Formula 1 past astatine the way connected Saturday to assertion rod position.

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“That was unbelievable, guys! Well done, everyone,” Verstappen said connected squad radio. “We executed that truly well. What an unbelievable weekend. We tin beryllium truly arrogant of that.”

Norris was second, astir 20 seconds down Verstappen, to trim the spread to Piastri successful the rubric contention to 31 points. He had started the time 34 points down the Australian driver, who was not blessed aft helium was ordered to fto his teammate past towards the extremity of the race.

The power came aft Norris had a dilatory pit stop, which appeared to enactment his rubric chances further successful jeopardy erstwhile helium came retired down his teammate. But McLaren ordered Piastri to fto the British operator past, which helium did contempt grumbling astir the determination connected squad radio.

Max Verstappen leads McLaren’s Lando Norris successful the aboriginal stages of the Italian Grand Prix [Philippe Lopez/AFP]

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton had coagulated performances astatine the team’s location race. Cheered connected by the passionate, red-clad “Tifosi” fans, Leclerc finished 4th portion Hamilton surged done the tract astatine the commencement to transverse the enactment successful sixth – aft starting from 10th pursuing a five-place grid penalty.

Norris was hopeless to rebound from a disastrous Dutch GP, wherever helium retired with a uncommon motor problem. Starting from 2nd astatine Monza, helium tussled with Verstappen from the commencement and was forced disconnected into the writer astatine the archetypal corner.

“I ever cognize it is going to beryllium a bully combat with Max, and it was,” Norris said. “One of those weekends wherever we are a spot slower, but a bully fight, and I enjoyed it.”

Verstappen was told to springiness the spot backmost and duly did so, but the Red Bull operator reclaimed the pb astatine the commencement of thigh four, diving past Norris into crook one.

From there, it was astir a procession to triumph for Verstappen. He concisely recovered himself down the McLarens aft pitting connected thigh 38, but retook the pb erstwhile Piastri was brought successful connected thigh 46, followed by Norris a thigh later.

Max Verstappen crosses the decorativeness enactment astatine Monza to grounds his 3rd Grand Prix triumph of the 2025 season, and 66th vocation F1 triumph [Marco Bertorello/AFP]