Monza has the record for organizing the most Formula 1 World Championships Races, with the edition of this year the 75th Grand Prix that is held in the “Temple of Speed”. Only in 1980 was the Italian Grand Prix held elsewhere-in Imola, while Monza was upgraded and with top 10 in each of his last two visits with Williams, is your guide for the High-Speed 3.6-Mile Track Williams Racer Alex Albon.
“I came to Monza for the first time in 2012 and I probably raced here since 2021, so a bit a bit. My first race ever in Single-Saters was in Monza. I had the biggest crash of my life. My biggest crash in Motorsport was the first race of my single-sea career.
“From Ascari I came from the back of another car, rear wheel. And then I actually did a backward somersault. Landed on my nose and then landed and rolled about four or five times more. So a good start to my career!
“Since then it has changed a bit, but more in the way they turned up last year. And they also changed parabolica. It clearly went to a point where it had a full run-off area. And now it’s a bit between a bit.
“I would say that I probably enjoyed it the most when I rode on it for the first time. When it was a kind of old school stove, no drainage areas and whatever.
“Brake points are really difficult. One of the strange things of this track is that the tire connections are soft, you run a very low rear wing, very low downforce, and it is generally a hot track. So, although there are only seven right angles, the round time and the tires that take the lap for a long time is really difficult.
“The degrees here is huge. It is all straight, you would think that the tires would be cool, but they are not. It is therefore a challenge. The balance between the curbs drive well. And focus on Downforce to a low and stiff car or a little higher and a softer car. The assessment is quite important.
“Unfortunately, that has become less once she turned it up again. Nowadays the cars are a bit stiffer and a little lower than a few years ago. In that sense it is easier.
“It feels strange that low downforce is running here compared to other songs. You always come here in FP1 and complain:” The car is terrible. No grip. ” And then you simply adjust to it as the weekend progresses.
“It is strange. For example, Drs hardly does anything around this song. I think you get a tenth to become 1 if you use Drs if you don’t. There are strange peculiarities on the track.
“It is not easy from the perspective of an engineering set-up. You have low speed angles and then everything else is a fourth or a fifth gear angle. It is not even low and medium. You have low speed and then you have medium/high speed.
“You are almost always in balance with the two. You can’t have a car that is just good at low speed and high speed. You have to exchange somewhere in the middle. That does a lot to you through competitive analysis and look at where your rivals are. Give a bit here for a little.
The combination of high and low speed sections makes the preparation of a compromise at Monza. Lars Baron/Getty images
“You actually want a lot of front for rotation 1 and 2, and run 4 and 5, because they are directional angles. In this low speed chicanes you need the front to turn it. Wear the minimum speed and go upright.
“If you look at Parabolica or the Lesmos, it is good to have stability in these long, combined corners. You want to wear the minimum speed and go on gas and not to ratify the back too much. Then you fight – it feels like your plates are running a little, trying to get both.
“In terms of a lane, I think it is actually a bit overestimated in that sense. Because it stops and starts, it does not have the flow of a spa or Zandvoort where we just come from.
“There is a lot of thinking between the straight pieces, which is interesting. It is a challenge in itself because it is a bit on golf. You can think about it, think about it, all these things. I just think there are better songs!”
At a glance
Race -distance: 53 laps/190.8 miles
2024 Polar time: 1M19.327S (Lando Norris, McLaren-Mercedes)
2024 Winner: Charles Leclerc, Ferrari
Pirelli -Tandstenstoeing: There is no change in connections compared to last year, when the track had just surfaced for the Italian Grand Prix in the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. The C3 is the hard, the C4 medium and the C5 soft. Twelve months later the surface will inevitably be outdated, but it is unlikely that it has a significant effect on the reach of possible strategies in this circuit, where cars in the lowest aerodynamic downforce configuration of the season will be performed.
It is likely that the most popular choices for the race itself will be the hard and medium. It can be assumed that the grain level will be lower than last year, because the job will now be embedded. Lost the time in the Pitlane for a tire change is one of the longest of the season, so teams will try to walk a stint for as long as possible, keep demolition under control, with the aim of changing tires only once.
Pirelli Italian Grand Prix Weekend schedule (First of all):
Friday 5 September
7:25 am – 8:30 am – First Exercise, ESPNU
10:55 am – 12:00 pm – Second training, ESPN2
Saturday 6 September
6:25 am – 7:30 am – Third Practice, ESPN2
9:55 am – 11:00 am – qualifying, ESPN2
Sunday September 7
8:55 AM – 11:00 AM – Italian Grand Prix (53 laps or 120 minutes), ESPN2
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