2016 Italian Grand Prix Review

Review of the fourteenth round of the 2016 F1 season at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, near Milan, for the Italian Grand Prix.

Not going to be the best race of the race. But, a race that current F1 champion Lewis Hamilton want to forget. Hamilton who started on pole, had a poor start and bogged down to sixth on the first lap. Which means Nico Rosberg took the advantage at the start and took the lead, stayed there with most of the laps leading, to conclude with a race win in this seasons Italian Grand Prix for Nico Rosberg's seventh race win of the season



While, Rosberg's team-mate and current F1 Champion Lewis Hamilton finished in second place in the other Mercedes to give the team its fourth one-two finish of the season, Hamilton was fifteen seconds behind Rosberg at the end.

Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel finished in third place in the Ferrari to complete the podium, Vettel was twenty seconds behind Rosberg at the end of the fifty-three lap race.

With Nico Rosberg's win in Italy and Lewis Hamilton only managing a second place finish at Monza, Hamilton still leads the F1 driver championship and now his gap between himself and team-mate Nico Rosberg is gone from nine points to two points with seven races to go.


Rate the Teams and Drivers

Mercedes - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 8 (pole and finished second)
Nico Rosberg - 9 (race win)

Ferrari - 7
Sebastian Vettel - 8 (finished third)
Kimi Räikkönen - 7 (finished fourth)

Williams - 6
Valtteri Bottas - 7 (finished sixth)
Felipe Massa - 6 (finished ninth)

Red Bull Racing - 7
Daniel Ricciardo - 8 (finished fifth)
Max Verstappen - 6 (finished seventh)

Force India - 6
Nico Hülkenberg - 6 (finished tenth)
Sergio Pérez - 7 (finished eighth)

Renault - 5
Kevin Magnussen - 5 (finished seventeenth, lap down)
Jolyon Palmer - 5 (DNF, Collision damage from Felipe Nasr)

Toro Rosso - 5
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 6 (finished fifteenth, lap down)
Daniil Kvyat - 5 (DNF, Battery)

Sauber - 5
Marcus Ericsson - 6 (finished sixteenth, lap down)
Felipe Nasr - 4 (DNF, Collision with Jolyon Palmer)

McLaren - 6
Fernando Alonso - 7 (finished fourteenth and fastest lap, lap down)
Jenson Button - 6 (finished twelfth, lap down)

Manor - 6
Esteban Ocon - 5 (finished eighteenth, two laps down)
Pascal Wehrlein - 7 (DNF, Oil leak)

Haas - 6
Romain Grosjean - 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)
Esteban Gutiérrez - 6 (finished thirteenth, lap down)


Next stop Marina Bay Street Circuit in two weeks time for the Singapore Grand Prix.