2013 Italian Grand Prix report
Two of the season’s classic Grands Prix in two weeks and both, unfortunately, were distinctly lacking in excitement. As at Spa Sebastian Vettel won as he liked at Monza, once…
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Another blazing hot day at Monza – and, almost inevitably, another pole position for Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull. Team-mate Mark Webber was appreciably closer – two tenths, rather than six…
Traditionally Ferrari has chosen the Monza weekend to announce any forthcoming changes in its driver line-up: it was immediately after the race here in 2006, for example, that the signing…
Half an hour – or 20 minutes by crazed taxi – north-northeast of Milan, Monza should by rights be Alfa Romeo country. And so it was for a time, its…
Taken from the October 1988 issue of Motor Sport By Denis Jenkinson If you believe in the law of averages, the day had to come when McLaren and Honda would…
Hard as it may be to believe now, time was when there were no chicanes at Monza, when the track – prior to 1972 – was uncompromisingly fast. “You had…
Taken from the May 1997 issue of Motor Sport The first thing to say about the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix is that it came close to being called off. Not…
Taken from the July 1983 issue of Motor Sport By Denis Jenkinson At this length of time after the event there is little point in recording an hour-by-hour or lap-by-lap…
Spa is quick still. Sebastian Vettel’s fastest lap at the Belgian Grand Prix equated to a 141.457mph average – despite the hideous Full Stop chicane opposite the pit entrance. The…
Two of the season’s classic Grands Prix in two weeks and both, unfortunately, were distinctly lacking in excitement. As at Spa Sebastian Vettel won as he liked at Monza, once…
Another blazing hot day at Monza – and, almost inevitably, another pole position for Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull. Team-mate Mark Webber was appreciably closer – two tenths, rather than six…
Traditionally Ferrari has chosen the Monza weekend to announce any forthcoming changes in its driver line-up: it was immediately after the race here in 2006, for example, that the signing…
Half an hour – or 20 minutes by crazed taxi – north-northeast of Milan, Monza should by rights be Alfa Romeo country. And so it was for a time, its…
Taken from the October 1988 issue of Motor Sport By Denis Jenkinson If you believe in the law of averages, the day had to come when McLaren and Honda would…
Hard as it may be to believe now, time was when there were no chicanes at Monza, when the track – prior to 1972 – was uncompromisingly fast. “You had…
Taken from the May 1997 issue of Motor Sport The first thing to say about the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix is that it came close to being called off. Not…
Taken from the July 1983 issue of Motor Sport By Denis Jenkinson At this length of time after the event there is little point in recording an hour-by-hour or lap-by-lap…
Spa is quick still. Sebastian Vettel’s fastest lap at the Belgian Grand Prix equated to a 141.457mph average – despite the hideous Full Stop chicane opposite the pit entrance. The…
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