Round 15 · 2023

Italian Grand Prix

Monza, Italy · 3 Sept 2023

The main event. Most laps wins; points go to the top 10.

How the race went

Max Verstappen won the race from P2, finishing 6.064s ahead of Sergio Perez.

A clean race: no Safety Cars or red flags.
Valtteri Bottas was the big mover, climbing from P14 to P10.
Oscar Piastri set the fastest lap: 1:25.072 on lap 43.
25 pit stops in total; most drivers stopped once.
Max Verstappen's tyres: Medium → Hard.
1 driver didn't finish: Esteban Ocon.
A dry race, with the track around 43°C.
231 overtakes recorded.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Time / gap	Pts
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	2 ▲1	1:13:41.143	25
2	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	5 ▲3	+6.064s	18
3	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1 ▼2	+11.193s	15
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	3 ▼1	+11.377s	12
5	George Russell	Mercedes	4 ▼1	+23.028s	10
6	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	8 ▲2	+42.679s	8
7	Alexander Albon	Williams	6 ▼1	+45.106s	6
8	Lando Norris	McLaren	9 ▲1	+45.449s	4
9	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	10 ▲1	+46.294s	2
10	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	14 ▲4	+64.056s	1
11	Liam Lawson	AlphaTauri	12 ▲1	+70.638s	0
12	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	7 ▼5	+73.074s	0
13	Logan Sargeant	Williams	15 ▲2	+78.557s	0
14	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	16 ▲2	+80.164s	0
15	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	17 ▲2	+82.51s	0
16	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	20 ▲4	+87.266s	0
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Haas F1 Team	13 ▼4	+1 LAP	0
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	19 ▲1	+1 LAP	0
–	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	11	DNS	0
–	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	18	DNF	0

Reading this table

Grid is where the driver started. ▲ means they gained places during the race, ▼ means they lost places. DNF = did not finish, DNS = did not start, DSQ = disqualified. The winner's time is the total race time; everyone else is shown as the gap behind the winner.