F1 Driver Form: Italian Grand Prix at Monza

Verstappen recorded his first Monza podium by winning in 2022 and won again in 2023, while seven drivers hold a 100% finish rate at the circuit. Here’s everything you need to know about each driver’s history at the Italian Grand Prix!

🇳🇱 Max VERSTAPPEN

Max Verstappen recorded his first win – and first top four result – at Monza in the 2022 Italian Grand Prix. His win was the first time he finished the Italian Grand Prix since 2019. His 100% finish record came to an end at Monza in 2020 and he recorded a second consecutive DNF at the track in 2021 after colliding with title rival Lewis Hamilton.

Verstappen won the Italian Grand Prix for a second time in 2023, this time doing so having started from the front row of the grid. Verstappen scored at the Italian Grand Prix in every season between 2016 and 2019, with a best result during that time of fifth in 2018.

Verstappen inherited pole position in 2021 following a grid penalty for Valtteri Bottas. That was the only time that he started on the front two rows of the grid at Monza until 2023, when he started second. The Dutchman qualified on the front row in 2017, but started only 13^th after a penalty. He also qualified on the front row in 2022 but another penalty demoted him to seventh on the grid.

Given his low starting positions, it’s no surprise that – of the races he’s finished – Verstappen has never finished in a position lower than where he has started at the Italian Grand Prix. He gained 11 positions at the track in 2019 and gained six on his way to victory in 2022.

MAX VERSTAPPEN’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇲🇽 Sergio PEREZ

Sergio Perez has scored at the Italian Grand Prix in all of the last ten seasons. Perez’s best result at Monza is second place, which he first recorded with Sauber in 2012 before finishing as runner-up again in 2023 with Red Bull. Aside from those two seasons, his fifth place in 2021 is his only other top five finish at Monza.

2011 and 2013 are the only seasons in which Perez has failed to score at the circuit. He retired in 2011 and finished only 12^th with McLaren in 2013.

Perez’s best qualifying result at the Italian Grand Prix is fourth, which is where he qualified with Racing Point in 2020 and with Red Bull in 2022 – though he was demoted to 13^th on the grid in the latter year.

Perez has reached Q3 on eight of his 13 Italian Grand Prix appearances. The Mexican was eliminated in Q1 at the track in both 2018 and 2019. In the last eight seasons, 2020 is the only time that Perez has out-qualified his team-mate at Monza.

Of the 12 Monza races he’s finished, 2013 and 2020 are the only ones in which Perez has failed to gain places over the duration of the race.

SERGIO PEREZ’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇬🇧 Lewis HAMILTON

Lewis Hamilton has recorded five Italian Grand Prix wins and a further three podium finishes. He’s not finished on the podium at Monza since 2019. Following a penalty for entering the pit lane when it was closed, Hamilton finished only seventh in the 2020 Italian Grand Prix – his worst result at Monza since 2013. He then retired in 2021, following a collision with Max Verstappen. He has finished fifth in each of the last two seasons.

In addition to his 2021 collision, Hamilton has a further two retirements here, both a result of crashing out in 2009 and 2010. They’re the only other seasons in which he has failed to score at Monza.

Hamilton has taken pole at the Italian Grand Prix seven times, with his 2020 pole lap setting a new record for the fastest lap in F1 history. Hamilton took four consecutive poles at Monza between 2014 and 2017. In total, Hamilton has had nine front row starts here. He qualified fifth in both 2021 and 2022 – but moved up to fourth on the final grid in 2021 and dropped to 19^th due to a grid penalty in 2022.

His eighth place in qualifying last year marked his worst qualifying result at the track in a decade. 2008 and 2013 are the only years in which Hamilton has failed to reach Q3 at the track.

Despite being in contention for the win, 2019 marked the first time Hamilton did not lead a lap of the Italian Grand Prix since 2013. He set a new record for most laps led at the track during the 2020 race.

LEWIS HAMILTON’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇬🇧 George RUSSELL

George Russell scored at Monza for the first time in 2021, finishing in ninth place. He took his first podium finish at the circuit in 2022, finishing in third place and picked up more points with a sixth place finish in 2023.

2021 was also the first time he made it out of Q1 at the Italian Grand Prix and he went on to record his best qualifying result at the circuit, with 15^th in Sprint Qualifying. In 2022, he reached Q3 at the track for the first time, qualifying in sixth place – one position behind his team-mate. It was the first time Russell was out-qualified by his team-mate at the track. He out-qualified Lewis Hamilton in 2023, setting the fourth fastest lap time in Q3.

Russell previously competed at Monza in F3, GP3 and F2. Prior to F1, he scored points in every race he had competed in at the track, and won in GP3 in 2017 and at the F2 Sprint Race in 2018.

GEORGE RUSSELL’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇲🇨 Charles LECLERC

Charles Leclerc took victory at the 2019 Italian Grand Prix, taking Ferrari’s first home win in almost a decade. Leclerc’s win is one of four times that he has scored points here. He returned to the podium in 2022, finishing as runner-up, and finished fourth in both 2021 and 2023.

Two of Leclerc’s appearances at the Italian Grand Prix have resulted in point-less afternoons: he finished 11^th on his first appearance in 2018 and crashed out on a disappointing day for Ferrari in 2020.

Leclerc has taken two pole positions at Monza, in 2019 and 2022. He also reached Q3 in 2021 and 2023. Last year was only the second time, after 2021, that Leclerc has been out-qualified by a team-mate at the Italian Grand Prix.

CHARLES LECLERC’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇪🇸 Carlos SAINZ

Carlos Sainz finished as runner-up in the 2020 Italian Grand Prix. It was only the second time he had scored points at Monza, having also finished eighth for Renault in 2018. He recorded his second podium finish at the track last year, finishing on the third step of the podium. Sainz has scored in every race at the track since 2020, coming home sixth in 2021 and finishing fourth in 2022.

Sainz has reached Q3 in each of the last six Monza races, taking his first pole position at the track last year. His third place qualifications in 2020 and 2022 are the only other times he’s qualified in the top six here. He qualified seventh on his other three Q3 appearances at the Italian Grand Prix.

2022 was the first time since 2017 that Sainz failed to out-qualify his team-mate at the Italian Grand Prix. Taking a grid penalty into the race, Sainz gained 14 positions over the course of the 2022 event. Last year, when he finished third having started from pole, was the first time Sainz lost more than one position from where he started at Monza.

CARLOS SAINZ’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇬🇧 Lando NORRIS

Lando Norris has scored on all five appearances so far at the Italian Grand Prix. He recorded what was then the best result of his career to date here in 2021, finishing as runner-up to his team-mate. He finished tenth in 2019, fourth in 2020, seventh in 2022 and eighth in 2023.

Norris has reached Q3 here in the last four seasons and recorded his best qualifying result at the track to date in 2021 with fourth place as a result of Sprint Qualifying. 2021 was the first time he out-qualified his team-mate at Monza.

The 2022 Italian Grand Prix was the first – and remains the only – Monza race in which Norris finished in a worse position than where he started from.

Before his first F1 appearances here, Norris had previous experience at the Monza circuit in F3 in 2017 and F2 in 2018. He won the first of the three F3 races here in 2017, finishing as runner up in the other two. Meanwhile, in F2 in 2018, Norris finished sixth in the Feature Race and fifth in the Sprint Race. He drove for McLaren at the track in 2018 in Free Practice 1 for the Italian Grand Prix.

LANDO NORRIS’ ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇦🇺 Oscar PIASTRI

Oscar Piastri failed to score points on his first Italian Grand Prix appearance in 2023, finishing in 12^th place. He had out-qualified his team-mate on Saturday, reaching Q3 and setting the seventh fastest lap time.

Piastri won at Monza on his last appearance at the track before moving up to Formula 1, in the Formula 2 Feature Race in 2021. Piastri also finished on the podium here in Formula 3, finishing third in the 2020 Feature Race.

OSCAR PIASTRI’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇪🇸 Fernando ALONSO

Fernando Alonso has won the Italian Grand Prix twice – with McLaren in 2007 and with Ferrari in 2010. His 2010 win began a streak of four successive podium finishes at Monza – but his second place in 2013 remained the last time he scored a point here until 2021, when he finished eighth.

From his last eight appearances at Monza, Alonso has recorded five retirements. He has scored only five points at the track since his comeback to F1, finishing eighth in 2021 and ninth in 2023.

Alonso has taken two pole positions at Monza, in 2007 and 2010. He qualified on the back row on his first two appearances at Monza in 2001 and 2003 but then qualified in the top ten at every Italian Grand Prix between 2004 and 2014. He qualified in the top ten for the first time since then in 2022. After qualifying tenth, he moved up to sixth on the 2022 grid – his best starting position at Monza since 2013.

Of the races he has completed here, the 2016 event is the only one which he has finished in a worse position than where he started.

FERNANDO ALONSO’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇨🇦 Lance STROLL

Lance Stroll has scored on four of his seven Italian Grand Prix appearances. He held a 100% finish rate at the circuit until 2022. Stroll recorded his best result at the circuit in 2020, finishing on the podium in third place.

Stroll missed out on reaching Q3 at Monza for the first time in 2021, but made his way back into a top ten starting position during the Sprint Qualifying event. He exited in Q1 in 2022 but moved up to 12^th on the grid as a result of grid penalties for other drivers. In 2023, he set the slowest qualifying time of the 20 drivers in Q1 and started from last on the grid.

Stroll recorded his best qualifying position at the track in the wet 2017 session, where he qualified fourth. As a result of grid penalties, that fourth place became a front row start and made him the youngest driver to start from the front row in Formula 1 history.

2020 was the first time that Stroll has been out-qualified by a team-mate at Monza. Sebastian Vettel also out-qualified him here in all of the last three seasons.

LANCE STROLL’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇫🇷 Esteban OCON

Esteban Ocon’s 100% finishing rate at Monza came to an end at the 2023 Italian Grand Prix, retiring with steering issues just over ten laps from the end of the race. Ocon has scored of four of his previous seven Italian Grand Prix appearances, with his 11^th place finish in 2022 being the first time since his first appearance in 2016 that he failed to score at Monza.

Ocon’s best finishing position here is sixth, which he recorded in both 2017 and 2018. He finished eighth in 2020 and tenth in 2021.

2020 was the first time since 2016 that Ocon has failed to reach Q3 at Monza, as well as the first time since then that he was out-qualified by a team-mate at the circuit. He has failed to reach Q3 since 2018 and has been out-qualified by his team-mate in all of the last four seasons.

Ocon’s best qualifying result here is fifth, recorded in 2017. That later became third on the grid. The 2017 race is the only one in which Ocon has finished an Italian Grand Prix in a worse position than where he started.

ESTEBAN OCON’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇫🇷 Pierre GASLY

Before 2020, Pierre Gasly had not scored a point at the Italian Grand Prix. That changed in the 2020 Italian Grand Prix, as Gasly recorded his maiden Grand Prix victory at Monza, becoming France’s first F1 winner in 24 years.

The Frenchman had less luck in 2021, with his 100% finish rate ending at the circuit due to a retirement. He also retired from Sprint Qualifying, meaning he started from the back of the grid.

He previously finished 14^th in 2018 and 11^th in 2019. He scored for the second time at the track in 2022, coming home in eighth place. Gasly is yet to qualify above ninth position at the track – though he did reach Q3 for a third time in 2021, qualifying sixth for the sprint event.

In 2023, Gasly recorded his first Q1 exit at the Italian Grand Prix, starting one position ahead of his Alpine team-mate. He moved up two places in the race to finish outside of the points, in 15^th.

PIERRE GASLY’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇹🇭 Alex ALBON

Alex Albon has scored twice from his three appearances at the Italian Grand Prix with Red Bull. He finished sixth here in 2019, but failed to score in 2020, finishing only 15^th. On his first start here with Williams in 2023, Albon finished seventh.

Albon reached Q3 on all three previous appearances, setting a new best qualifying result of sixth place in 2023.

After participating in Free Practice on Friday, Albon was ruled out of taking any further part in the 2022 Italian Grand Prix after undergoing treatment for appendicitis. He was subsequently replaced by Nyck de Vries.

ALEX ALBON’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇦🇷 Franco COLAPINTO

Argentine driver Franco Colapinto will make his Formula 1 debut at the 2024 Italian Grand Prix, replacing Logan Sargeant at Williams. Colapinto’s most recent outing at Monza came last year, when he competed in Formula 3. He won the Sprint Race, but retired from the Feature Race. He also won the Sprint Race in Formula 3 here in 2022. Colapinto also won here in the Formula Renault Eurocup in 2020.

🇯🇵 Yuki TSUNODA

Yuki Tsunoda did not have much luck at the Italian Grand Prix when he first appeared here in 2021, having failed to start the race due to brake issues. Tsunoda originally qualified in 17^th place and made up one position during Sprint Qualifying.

In 2022, Tsunoda managed to make the start of the race and finished 14^{th –} six places behind his team-mate. On Saturday, he was eliminated in Q2 and was out-qualified by his team-mate for the second consecutive year.

Fortune does not seem to favour Tsunoda at Monza. He recorded a second DNS from three appearances at the track at the 2023 Italian Grand Prix. He had qualified in 11^th place for the race – his best qualifying result to date at the track – having out-qualified his team-mate here for the first time.

Tsunoda previously raced at Monza in F3 and F2. In F3, he finished on the podium in both races, winning the second race of the weekend. In F2 in 2020, Tsunoda finished fourth in the Feature Race and was not classified in the Sprint Race, retiring after 15 laps.

YUKI TSUNODA’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇦🇺 Daniel RICCIARDO

Daniel Ricciardo recorded his most recent Formula 1 win – and his only victory with McLaren – at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix. That was his eighth and most recent points-scoring appearance at Monza from his 12 F1 visits to the track. He has recorded three retirements here, the most recent of which came in 2022. His 2021 win is his only podium appearance at the Italian Grand Prix, though he finished fourth in both 2017 and 2019.

Ricciardo has never qualified on the front row at Monza, though he did start from the front row following a grid penalty for Valtteri Bottas in 2021, when Ricciardo had finished third in the Sprint. He also qualified third in 2017 but moved down to 16^th on the final grid as a result of penalties. Despite qualifying only eighth last year, he started fourth for similar penalty reasons.

Ricciardo has never lost a position from where he has started in any of the races he has finished at Monza. He’s set the fastest lap at the track twice.

DANIEL RICCIARDO’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇫🇮 Valtteri BOTTAS

Valtteri Bottas has a 100% finish rate at the Italian Grand Prix. For the first time since 2013, Bottas failed to finish in the top six at the circuit in 2022. The Finn has never won here, but has recorded four podium results. He finished as runner-up in 2017 and 2019, and finished third in 2019 and 2021.

As well as being one of only two non-scores at Monza, 2013 is one of only three seasons in which Bottas failed to qualify in the top six at the venue. He was eliminated in Q1 in 2013 and could progress no further than Q2 in the last two seasons.

Bottas secured his first pole position at Monza in 2021 as a result of Sprint Qualifying – but started from the back of the grid due to a power unit penalty.

Bottas started from the front row at the Italian Grand Prix for the first time in 2020. 2020 was the first time that Bottas lost more than one position from where he has started in his nine Italian Grand Prix appearances. He gained 16 places having started from the back row in 2021. He has gained positions in each of the last three races at the track.

VALTTERI BOTTAS’ ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇨🇳 ZHOU Guanyu

Zhou Guanyu failed to out-qualify his team-mate on his first Italian Grand Prix appearance in 2022, qualifying in 14^th – two positions behind Valtteri Bottas. Due to grid penalties for other drivers, he moved up to ninth on the final grid. He was able to stay in the top ten by the end of the race, scoring a single point with a tenth place finish.

Zhou again qualified two positions behind Bottas at the 2023 Italian Grand Prix, this time exiting in Q1. He gained two places in the race, to finish 14^th.

Zhou previously raced at Monza in junior series. He won all three races over the race meeting in Formula 4 here in 2015, finished in the top ten in all three races at Monza in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2017 and had made seven race starts here in Formula 2. In 2021, Zhou finished on the podium in two of the three races at the circuit, finishing as runner-up both times.

ZHOU GUANYU’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇩🇰 Kevin MAGNUSSEN

Kevin Magnussen has scored only a single point at Monza, having finished tenth in the 2014 Italian Grand Prix. His other seven races here resulted in non-scoring results, including two retirements in his last four visits.

2014 is the only time Magnussen has reached Q3 here, qualifying in fifth place. He was eliminated in Q1 in 2016, 2017, 2022 and 2023. He has qualified on the back row at Monza in each of the last two seasons.

KEVIN MAGNUSSEN’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY

🇩🇪 Nico HULKENBERG

Nico Hulkenberg’s best result from ten previous Italian Grand Prix appearances is fifth place, which is where he finished in both 2013 and 2019. Those are two of five occasions on which he has finished in the points at Monza. He has failed to finish here only once, in 2012.

While Hulkenberg has been eliminated in Q1 once at Monza, he has reached Q3 five times. His best qualifying result here is third place, which is where he qualified with Sauber in 2013. 2023 was the first time since 2017 that Hulkenberg qualified ahead of his team-mate at the Italian Grand Prix.

NICO HULKENBERG’S ITALIAN GRAND PRIX HISTORY