2021 Italian Grand Prix - Monza, Sep 10 - 12

[InsaneX_Badger]

This mistake is huge, as Hamilton won't pass the McLaren's, and with Bottas's penalties, this means Max will start the GP on pole, a track they were expecting the Mercs to be ahead.

[Mogster]

Bottas enjoying his new engine.

[Hoffman900]

This mistake is huge, as Hamilton won't pass the McLaren's, and with Bottas's penalties, this means Max will start the GP on pole, a track they were expecting the Mercs to be ahead.

Yeah that threw a big wrench into their plans.

[matt_b]

and let the slipstream train begin...what a stinker of a sprint race, when will F1 learn these do not work

[Hoffman900]

Bottas enjoying his new engine.

Yeah that fresh engine is running like a freight train.

Wonder what Merc will do now?

[PlatinumZealot]

Passing sucks here.

[Hoffman900]

and let the slipstream train begin...what a stinker of a sprint race, when will F1 learn these do not work

Nothing really changed vs a standard schedule except it cost AT some cap money.

[PlatinumZealot]

All Max has to do now is trail Valterri home for the pole. It looks as if that engine change was the wrong decision because if passing is that like this tomorrow.....

[Hoffman900]

All Max has to do now is trail Valterri home for the pole. It looks as if that engine change was the wrong decision because if passing is that like this tomorrow.....

Performance wise it’s a great change. That engine looks strong.

Strategy wise, oy. Lewis really needed a good start there for his sake.

Lewis is just giving up too much over the rest of the track to do anything.

[maxxer]

For some reason i expected this with the McLarens

[InsaneX_Badger]

The luck of this sport if the cruelest mistress, right now it's swung to Max's favour. Lewis needs something special for strategy tomorrow.

[Marty_Y]

I really hate these sprint qualification weekends.

[search]

I think the engine change is not a bad move, and may even be for Hamilton, if he can't move up any further. Usually starting on hards and doing a long overcut works well in Monza

[dfegan358]

Poor sprint race, I’m not sure this adds much to weekend. Probably needs tweaked somehow to add more excitement

[Tvetovnato]

Well that’s championship over. Ham won’t win tomorrow, which was crucial for him to do. And another thing that is super fun for tomorrow, is that we now know for sure that overtaking is extremely difficult this year too here, so after the start we can pretty much be certain of the race result at the front. Thanks, sprint format!