We have reached the part of the championship that makes all Ferrari fans proud. Italian Grand Prix, a historic stage of Formula 1, every year gathers thousands of fans and enthusiasts who wave flags with prancing horses and the Italian tricolour, symbol of a passion that resists even the years of the drought of world championships for the red team. Let's see the most historical and curious statistics of the Italian GP.
- On the Brianza circuit, the home team, Ferrari, is the most successful. In fact, it holds the highest number of victories in a single Grand Prix. There are 19 of them.
- Not only for Ferrari, Monza is also historic for the top category. In fact, the Italian Grand Prix It is the only one – apart from the one in Great Britain – to have always been held from 1950 to today.
- In 1950, the first edition of the GP, an Italian wins. Nino Flour, in addition to winning at home, became world champion that same year. He passed away in '66 and "will be historically remembered as the driver who first took the world title when the Formula 1950 World Championship was established in 1."
- On the Monza circuit, thelast victory of an Italian pilot It dates back to 1966, when Ludovico won Scarfiotti. It was his first and last career victory.
- In 1971, on the Brianza circuit, the toughest fight for the penny ever. peter Gethin with 1 cent advantage over Ronnie Peterson, second. 9 hundredths ahead of François Cevert, Mike Haiwood with 18 cents and finally Hoden Ganley at 61 hundredths. The closest gaps in the history of the category.
- In 1975 Niki Lauda he becomes world champion with Ferrari in the Italian Grand Prix. And it is in Monza that he returns to racing when, in 1976, the serious accident forced him to stay away from the tracks for 4 GPs. That year he finished 4th.
- In 1979 Jodi Schekter, on Ferrari, becomes world champion. From here another 21 years must pass before the red one is again world champion. Must history repeat itself?
- The only year in which the Italian GP was held on the Imola circuit was in 1980. Since then, Monza has regularly hosted the weekend.
- In 1988, at Monza, there was the only non-McLaren victory of the season. Ferrari one-two which was, of course, dedicated to Enzo Ferrari, who disappeared the previous year. Legend has it that it was the Drake who helped his own stable.
- It is in the 1996 that Michael's first victory arrives Schumacher on the Italian circuit.
- In 2000Always Schumacher, returns to winning ways at Monza, equalling Ayrton SennaThe event was so emotional that he cried during the post-Grand Prix press conference when a journalist told him the news.
- In 2001, a few days after the fall of the Twin Towers, Ferrari remembers the victims with a red livery completely without sponsors and the black face. Coming 2nd and 4th in the race.
- Il 2003 it was the year of the record. Michael Schumacher runs the risk of losing his domination started in Suzuka 2000, barely keeping behind the future Ferrari driver (Kimi Raikkonen), that year on McLaren. On the SF2003-GA (named in this way to pay homage to the engineer Gianni Agnelli), he reaches the maximum speed recorded in F1: 247,585 km/h beating the previous record of 242,620 km/h obtained in 1971 by Peter Gethin, also in Monza, but with a completely different track configuration. The average speed of the fastest lap in the race scored by the German driver, of 254,848 km/h.
- The last Italian to win at home was in 2005. Giancarlo fisichella conquers the first position on the Italian circuit.
- In 2006 It's Michael's last Italian victory in Ferrari Schumacher, announcing his retirement with a very emotional handover “ceremony” with Kimi Raikkonen, who came in second. He will return years later but on Mercedes.
- Fernando Alonso marks his first Hat trick on Ferrari right on Italian soil in 2010.
- In 2018 the last pole at Monza on Ferrari Whom, the following year he will leave his place to a very young Charles Leclerc to go to Alfa Romeo.
- In 2019 It is precisely that young boy who makes thousands of fans fall in love. Winning after 9 years from Alonso, in his first year in F1 and in Ferrari, Charles Leclerc takes first place, keeping behind Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas in Mercedes.
- Lewis Hamilton establishes, in 2020, the record for the maximum speed achieved on a single lap. That year at Monza Pierre won gasly.
- In 2021 Daniel wins instead Ricciardo with a McLaren one-two. The last one was in 2010 at Interlagos. In the same year, the memorable crash between a reigning world champion and the future one, who would then dominate for the following years, Hamilton and Verstappen.
- In 2022 Charles Leclerc records his last pole at Monza with a special Modena yellow livery. However, Max won Verstappen and the race ended with a safety car 10 laps from the end.
- In 2023, the young McLaren purchase, Oscar Piastres records his first fastest lap on the Brianza circuit.
