2014 Italian Grand Prix

  2014 Italian Grand Prix

Race details
Race 13 of 19 in the 2014 Formula One season
Layout of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Date	7 September 2014
Official name	Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2014[1]
Location	Autodromo Nazionale Monza Monza, Italy
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.793 km (3.600 mi)
Distance	53 laps, 306.720 km (190.587 mi)
Weather	Mostly sunny with temperatures reaching a maximum of 26 degrees during the day.
Attendance	114,000
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:24.109
Fastest lap
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:28.004 on lap 29
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Third	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes
Lap leaders

The 2014 Italian Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2014)^[1] was a Formula One motor race held on the 7 September 2014 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy.^[2] The race was the thirteenth round of the 2014 season, and the eighty-fourth running of the Italian Grand Prix.

Report

Background

For the third consecutive year, Formula One tyre supplier Pirelli brought its two hardest tyre compounds to the Italian Grand Prix, with the orange-banded hard compound tyre being the harder "prime" tyre, and the white-banded medium compound tyre being the softer "option" tyre for the race weekend. This was the first race of Formula One on the newly redesigned Parabolica that included a new run off tarmac area.

Qualifying

Lewis Hamilton qualified on pole, with his teammate Nico Rosberg starting in 2nd. This was Hamilton's first pole position since the 2014 Spanish Grand Prix seven races previously, having suffered from a wide array of issues or mistakes in the last seven qualifying sessions. Hamilton said it was a "relief" to have had his first clean qualifying session for a while.^[3]

Race

Hamilton lost 3 places and fell to 4th by the first corner after a poor start that was caused by a glitch in his start procedure.^[4] This allowed Rosberg into 1st position, and Kevin Magnussen and Felipe Massa into 2nd and 3rd respectively. On lap 5 Magnussen was passed by both Massa and Hamilton in close succession. On lap 9 Rosberg missed the chicane and lost over a second, and on the following lap Hamilton passed Massa around the outside into the turn 1 chicane to move into 2nd place, just over 2 seconds behind Rosberg. Hamilton proceeded to chip away at Rosberg's lead over the following laps, closing in to just over a second behind Rosberg by lap 23. Rosberg and Hamilton pitted on lap 25 and 26 respectively, emerging in the same positions as before. As lap 29 began Hamilton was 0.7 seconds behind Rosberg, and heading into the first corner Rosberg missed the chicane again, allowing Hamilton up into 1st. This lap also saw Hamilton set the fastest lap of the race. On the same lap Alonso retired due to an engine problem.^[5] This was Alonso's first mechanical failure since the 2010 Malaysian Grand Prix. Daniel Ricciardo once again outraced Sebastian Vettel after they were running different tyre strategies and Ricciardo overtook Vettel late in the race on lap 47, with the two drivers finishing 5th and 6th respectively. Hamilton went on to win the race.^[6][7]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:25.363	1:24.560	1:24.109	1
2	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:25.493	1:24.600	1:24.383	2
3	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams–Mercedes	1:26.012	1:24.858	1:24.697	3
4	19	Felipe Massa	Williams–Mercedes	1:25.528	1:25.046	1:24.865	4
5	20	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren–Mercedes	1:26.337	1:25.973	1:25.314	5
6	22	Jenson Button	McLaren–Mercedes	1:26.328	1:25.630	1:25.379	6
7	14	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:26.514	1:25.525	1:25.430	7
8	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing–Renault	1:26.631	1:25.769	1:25.436	8
9	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing–Renault	1:26.721	1:25.946	1:25.709	9
10	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	1:26.569	1:25.863	1:25.944	10
11	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	1:26.261	1:26.070		21^1
12	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:26.689	1:26.110		11
13	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	1:26.140	1:26.157		12
14	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	1:26.371	1:26.279		13
15	99	Adrian Sutil	Sauber-Ferrari	1:27.034	1:26.588		14
16	21	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:26.999	1:26.692		15
17	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Renault	1:27.520			16
18	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:27.632			17
19	10	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	1:27.671			18
20	17	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Ferrari	1:27.738			19
21	4	Max Chilton	Marussia-Ferrari	1:28.247			20
22	9	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	1:28.562			22
107% time: 1:31.338
Source:[8]

Notes:

• ^1  — Daniil Kvyat qualified in eleventh, but was given a ten-place grid penalty for using his sixth engine of the season.

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	53	1:19:10.236	1	25
2	6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	53	+3.175	2	18
3	19	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	53	+25.026	4	15
4	77	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	53	+40.786	3	12
5	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing–Renault	53	+50.309	9	10
6	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing–Renault	53	+59.965	8	8
7	11	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	53	+1:02.518	10	6
8	22	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+1:03.063	6	4
9	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	53	+1:03.535	11	2
10^1	20	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	53	+1:06.171	5	1
11	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	53	+1:11.184	21
12	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	53	+1:12.606	13
13	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	53	+1:13.093	12
14	13	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus-Renault	52	+1 Lap	16
15	99	Adrian Sutil	Sauber-Ferrari	52	+1 Lap	14
16	8	Romain Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	52	+1 Lap	17
17	10	Kamui Kobayashi	Caterham-Renault	52	+1 Lap	18
18	17	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Ferrari	52	+1 Lap	19
19	9	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	51	+2 Laps	PL^2
20^3	21	Esteban Gutiérrez	Sauber-Ferrari	51	+2 Laps	15
Ret	14	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	28	Engine	7
Ret	4	Max Chilton	Marussia-Ferrari	5	Accident	20
Source:[9]

Notes:

• ^1  — Kevin Magnussen finished in seventh, but had five seconds added to race time for forcing Valtteri Bottas off the track.
• ^2  — Marcus Ericsson started from pit lane for yellow flag infringement during Free Practice 3.
• ^3  — Esteban Gutiérrez finished in nineteenth, but had twenty seconds added to race time for causing an avoidable collision to Romain Grosjean.

Championship standings after the race

• Bold text indicates who still has a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion.

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 Nico Rosberg 238 2 Lewis Hamilton 216 3 Daniel Ricciardo 166 1 4 Valtteri Bottas 122 1 5 Fernando Alonso 121

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Mercedes 454 2 Red Bull Racing-Renault 272 1 3 Williams-Mercedes 177 1 4 Ferrari 162 5 McLaren-Mercedes 110

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

1. "Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2014". Formula1.com. Formula One Administration. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
2. "FIA Formula One calendar". FIA.com. Fedération Internationale de l'Automobile. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
3. Esler, William (6 September 2014). "2014 Italian GP qualifying - driver reaction". Sky Sports. Sky. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
4. "Italian GP: Lewis Hamilton wins after Nico Rosberg error". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 7 September 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
5. "Lewis Hamilton takes Italian F1 Grand Prix from errant Nico Rosberg". Guardian. 8 September 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
6. "Lewis Hamilton wins Italian Grand Prix as Nico Rosberg insist his costly error was not deliberate". Daily Telegaph. 8 September 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
7. "Italian Grand Prix as it happened". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 7 September 2014. Archived from the original on September 10, 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
8. "2014 Italian Grand Prix - Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. Archived from the original on 4 March 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
9. "2014 Italian Grand Prix - Race". Formula1.com. Formula1.com Limited. Archived from the original on 10 March 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2015.

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