The 2018 Italian Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2018)[1] was the fourteenth race of the 2018 Formula One season, and the eighty-eighth time the Italian Grand Prix was held. It was held between 31 August and 2 September 2018.
In qualifying, Kimi Räikkönen took his eighteenth pole position, also his first pole since the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix, and Ferrari's first pole at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza since 2010. His time of 1:19.119 was also the fastest lap recorded at the circuit, and made him the oldest driver to take pole since Nigel Mansell at the 1994 Australian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel qualified second, securing Ferrari's first front-row lockout at the circuit since the 2000 Italian Grand Prix, while his championship rival Lewis Hamilton qualified just behind in third.
In the race, Räikkönen stayed ahead of Vettel and Hamilton, while Brendon Hartley was squeezed between Stoffel Vandoorne and Marcus Ericsson, damaging his front wing and front-right tyre. Hamilton made a lunge past Vettel at Turn 4, but just after Hamilton got ahead, Vettel made contact with Hamilton and was spun around, sending Vettel to the back of the field before the safety car was deployed to clear Hartley's car. After the safety car came in at the end of lap 3, Hamilton went past Räikkönen for first place on the start/finish straight, but Räikkönen took back the lead at Turn 4 on the same lap. Räikkönen pitted at the end of lap 20, but Hamilton stayed out until the end of lap 28, when Räikkönen was catching up to Valtteri Bottas, who kept Räikkönen behind him until he pitted on lap 36. With fresher tyres than Räikkönen, Hamilton snatched the lead on the start/finish straight on lap 45, and went on to take his sixty-eighth victory. Without a win since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix, and unable to challenge Hamilton with older tyres, Räikkönen settled for second. Bottas came home in third place after Verstappen was demoted from third to fifth with a five-second penalty received for making contact with Bottas in the braking zone at Turn 1 on lap 43, also putting Vettel up to fourth place.
Background[]
After he caused a first-lap crash involving Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc at the Belgian Grand Prix, Nico Hülkenberg received a ten-place grid penalty for the Italian Grand Prix.[2] He later used another set of power unit elements, all exceeding the limit of power unit elements allowed without a penalty, thus giving him grid penalties that put him at the back of the grid.[3] Daniel Ricciardo was also demoted to the back after using Renault's "Spec C" power unit,[4] being used by Red Bull before the Singapore Grand Prix, although Renault and McLaren planned not to use it before then.[5] Alonso also used a new chassis after his car was damaged during the crash at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix, although it is described to be one "used in winter testing or the first races", without latest specification spare parts.[6]
After Sebastian Vettel beat Lewis Hamilton to victory in Belgium, Mercedes' chief Toto Wolff remarked that Ferrari became faster than Mercedes, saying: "We have seen that in qualifying. That power advantage is at various parts of the straights. You can see even at the exits, [they] are not worse than ours. The engine keeps pulling. Having said that, there's nothing that could be a trick, it might also be related to how you run the engine, how you calibrate it. We can see they have a slight power advantage and then you add that to our weaknesses out of Turn 1 especially and that causes the double whammy. If you're not very good at traction and you're being outperformed slightly on power, that lap one happens."[7]
Entry list[]
Practice Overview[]
FP1[]
FP2[]
FP3[]
Practice Results[]
| No | Driver | Team | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Pos | Time | Pos | Time | Pos | ||||||||
| 2 |  Stoffel Vandoorne
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 McLaren-Renault
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1:24.084 | 19 | 1:22.987 | 18 | |||||||
| 3 |  Daniel Ricciardo
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 Red Bull-TAG Heuer
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1:35.207 | 5 | 1:22.296 | 6 | 1:22.310 | 8 | |||||
| 5 |  Sebastian Vettel
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 Ferrari
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1:37.867 | 17 | 1:21.105 | 1 | 1:20.509 | 1 | |||||
| 7 |  Kimi Räikkönen
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Ferrari
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1:34.550 | 2 | 1:21.375 | 2 | 1:20.682 | 3 | |||||
| 8 |  Romain Grosjean
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 Haas-Ferrari
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1:37.683 | 15 | 1:23.077 | 11 | 1:22.357 | 10 | |||||
| 9 |  Marcus Ericsson
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 Sauber-Ferrari
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1:37.790 | 16 | No Time | 20 | 1:22.882 | 16 | |||||
| 10 | Pierre Gasly
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Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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1:35.438 | 6 | 1:23.402 | 14 | 1:22.631 | 12 | |||||
| 11 |  Sergio Pérez
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Force India-Mercedes
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1:34.000 | 1 | 1:22.942 | 8 | 1:22.486 | 11 | |||||
| 14 |  Fernando Alonso
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McLaren-Renault
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1:37.426 | 14 | 1:23.741 | 18 | 1:22.892 | 17 | |||||
| 16 |  Charles Leclerc
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Sauber-Ferrari
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1:36.648 | 12 | 1:22.965 | 9 | 1:22.313 | 9 | |||||
| 18 |  Lance Stroll
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Williams-Mercedes
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1:38.253 | 19 | 1:23.566 | 17 | 1:22.860 | 15 | |||||
| 20 |  Kevin Magnussen
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Haas-Ferrari
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1:37.066 | 13 | 1:23.233 | 13 | 1:22.011 | 6 | |||||
| 27 | Nico Hülkenberg
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Renault
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1:36.107 | 9 | 1:23.063 | 10 | 1:23.149 | 19 | |||||
| 28 |  Brendon Hartley
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Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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1:35.024 | 4 | 1:23.531 | 16 | 1:23.164 | 20 | |||||
| 31 | Esteban Ocon
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Force India-Mercedes
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1:34.593 | 3 | 1:22.930 | 7 | 1:22.055 | 7 | |||||
| 33 |  Max Verstappen
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Red Bull-TAG Heuer
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1:35.665 | 7 | 1:22.154 | 5 | 1:21.388 | 5 | |||||
| 35 |  Sergey Sirotkin
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Williams-Mercedes
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1:37.929 | 18 | 1:23.514 | 15 | 1:22.778 | 14 | |||||
| 44 | Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes
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1:36.546 | 11 | 1:21.392 | 3 | 1:20.590 | 2 | |||||
| 47 | Lando Norris
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McLaren-Renault
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1:38.282 | 20 | |||||||||
| 55 | Carlos Sainz, Jr.
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Renault
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1:35.995 | 8 | 1:23.193 | 12 | 1:22.737 | 13 | |||||
| 77 | Valtteri Bottas
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Mercedes
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1:36.238 | 10 | 1:21.803 | 4 | 1:21.112 | 4 | |||||
| Source: [8][9][10] | |||||||||||||
Qualifying[]
Q1[]
Q2[]
Q3[]
Qualifying Results[]
| Pos. | No. | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Grid | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Time | Pos | Time | Pos | Time | ||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen
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Ferrari
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2 | 1:20.722 | 3 | 1:19.846 | 1 | 1:19.119 | 1 | |||
| 2 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel
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Ferrari
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1 | 1:20.542 | 1 | 1:19.629 | 2 | 1:19.280 | 2 | |||
| 3 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes
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3 | 1:20.810 | 2 | 1:19.798 | 3 | 1:19.294 | 3 | |||
| 4 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas
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Mercedes
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5 | 1:21.381 | 5 | 1:20.427 | 4 | 1:19.656 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 33 | Max Verstappen
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Red Bull-TAG Heuer
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6 | 1:21.381 | 4 | 1:20.333 | 5 | 1:20.615 | 5 | |||
| 6 | 8 | Romain Grosjean
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Haas-Ferrari
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15 | 1:21.887 | 6 | 1:21.239 | 6 | 1:20.936 | 6 | |||
| 7 | 55 | Carlos Sainz, Jr.
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Renault
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8 | 1:21.732 | 9 | 1:21.552 | 7 | 1:21.041 | 7 | |||
| 8 | 31 | Esteban Ocon
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Force India-Mercedes
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7 | 1:21.570 | 7 | 1:21.315 | 8 | 1:21.099 | 8 | |||
| 9 | 10 | Pierre Gasly
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Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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12 | 1:21.834 | 10 | 1:21.667 | 9 | 1:21.350 | 9 | |||
| 10 | 18 | Lance Stroll
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Williams-Mercedes
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13 | 1:21.838 | 8 | 1:21.494 | 10 | 1:21.627 | 10 | |||
| 11 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen
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Haas-Ferrari
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9 | 1:21.783 | 11 | 1:21.669 | 11 | |||||
| 12 | 35 | Sergey Sirotkin
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Williams-Mercedes
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11 | 1:21.813 | 12 | 1:21.732 | 12 | |||||
| 13 | 14 | Fernando Alonso
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McLaren-Renault
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14 | 1:21.850 | 13 | 1:22.568 | 13 | |||||
| 14 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg
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Renault
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10 | 1:21.801 | 14 | no time | 20* | |||||
| 15 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo
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Red Bull-TAG Heuer
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4 | 1:21.280 | 15 | no time | 19† | |||||
| 16 | 11 | Sergio Pérez
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Force India-Mercedes
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16 | 1:21.888 | 14 | |||||||
| 17 | 16 | Charles Leclerc
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Sauber-Ferrari
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17 | 1:21.889 | 15 | |||||||
| 18 | 28 | Brendon Hartley
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Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda
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18 | 1:21.934 | 16 | |||||||
| 19 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson
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Sauber-Ferrari
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19 | 1:22.048 | 18‡ | |||||||
| 20 | 2 | Stoffel Vandoorne
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McLaren-Renault
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20 | 1:22.085 | 17 | |||||||
| 107% time: 1:26.179 | |||||||||||||
| Source: [11] | |||||||||||||
- * Hülkenberg was given a ten-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Alonso and Leclerc at the previous race in Belgium,[2] and was later forced to start from the back of the grid after using his fifth ICE, sixth turbocharger, fifth MGU-H, fourth MGU-K, fourth ES and fourth CE.[12]
- † Ricciardo was forced to start from the back of the grid after using his fourth ICE, fourth turbocharger, fourth MGU-H, fourth MGU-K, fourth ES and fourth CE.[13]
- ‡ Ericsson was given a ten-place grid penalty for using his fourth ICE.[14]
Grid[]
| Pos. | Pos. | |
|---|---|---|
| Driver | Driver | |
| ______________ | ||
| Row 1 | 1 | ______________ |
| Kimi Räikkönen | 2 | |
| ______________ | Sebastian Vettel | |
| Row 2 | 3 | ______________ |
| Lewis Hamilton | 4 | |
| ______________ | Valtteri Bottas | |
| Row 3 | 5 | ______________ |
| Max Verstappen | 6 | |
| ______________ | Romain Grosjean | |
| Row 4 | 7 | ______________ |
| Carlos Sainz, Jr. | 8 | |
| ______________ | Esteban Ocon | |
| Row 5 | 9 | ______________ |
| Pierre Gasly | 10 | |
| ______________ | Lance Stroll | |
| Row 6 | 11 | ______________ |
| Kevin Magnussen | 12 | |
| ______________ | Sergey Sirotkin | |
| Row 7 | 13 | ______________ |
| Fernando Alonso | 14 | |
| ______________ | Sergio Pérez | |
| Row 8 | 15 | ______________ |
| Charles Leclerc | 16 | |
| ______________ | Brendon Hartley | |
| Row 9 | 17 | ______________ |
| Stoffel Vandoorne | 18 | |
| ______________ | Marcus Ericsson* | |
| Row 10 | 19 | ______________ |
| Daniel Ricciardo† | 20 | |
| ______________ | Nico Hülkenberg‡ |
- * Ericsson was given a ten-place grid penalty for using his fourth ICE.[14]
- † Ricciardo was forced to start from the back of the grid after using his fourth ICE, fourth turbocharger, fourth MGU-H, fourth MGU-K, fourth ES and fourth CE.[13]
- ‡ Hülkenberg was given a ten-place grid penalty for causing a collision with Alonso and Leclerc at the previous race in Belgium,[2] and was later forced to start from the back of the grid after using his fifth ICE, sixth turbocharger, fifth MGU-H, fourth MGU-K, fourth ES and fourth CE.[12]
Race[]
Report[]
Results[]
- * Verstappen crossed the finish line in third, but was given a five-second time penalty for causing a collision with Bottas.[15]
- † Grosjean crossed the finish line in sixth, but was disqualified for a technical rule infringement with his car floor.[15][16]
Milestones[]
- Kevin Magnussen's 75th entry (74th start).
- Kimi Räikkönen's 100th podium.
- Sergey Sirotkin scores his first point, following Romain Grosjean's disqualification. This ensured that for the first time in Formula One, all 20 racers who entered and finished every race in the season scored at least a point.
Standings[]
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Notes[]
- ↑ "Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2018". formula1.com. Formula One Administration. https://www.formula1.com/en/championship/races/2018/Italy.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Hulkenberg given 10-place Italian GP grid penalty for Spa start crash". Formula One Administration. 26 August 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/8/hulkenberg-given-10-place-italian-gp-grid-penalty-for-spa-start-.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ "Hulkenberg takes fresh Renault engine for Monza". Formula One Administration. 31 August 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/8/hulkenberg-takes-fresh-renault-engine-for-monza.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ "Ricciardo set for Monza engine penalty". Formula One Administration. 28 August 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/8/ricciardo-set-for-monza-engine-penalty-.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ "Red Bull duo expecting gains from Renault upgrade". Formula One Administration. 30 August 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/8/red-bull-duo-expecting-gains-from-renault-upgrade-.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ "McLaren gives Alonso new chassis for Italy after Spa crash". Formula One Administration. 30 August 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/8/alonso-takes-new-chassis-for-italy-following-spa-crash.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ "Ferrari have the power advantage now - Mercedes". Formula One Administration. 27 August 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/8/ferrari-have-the-power-advantage-now---mercedes-.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ "2018 Italian Grand Prix – Practice 1 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 31 August 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/992/italy/practice-1.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ "2018 Italian Grand Prix – Practice 2 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 31 August 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/992/italy/practice-2.html. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ↑ "2018 Italian Grand Prix – Practice 3 results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 1 September 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/992/italy/practice-3.html. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ↑ "2018 Italian Grand Prix – Qualifying results". Formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 1 September 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/992/italy/qualifying.html. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "FIA Stewards Decision — Document No. 9". FIA.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 31 August 2018. https://www.fia.com/file/72339/download?token=fRjHWcZX. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "FIA Stewards Decision — Document No. 8". FIA.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 31 August 2018. https://www.fia.com/file/72347/download?token=f6-vHis-. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "FIA Stewards Decision — Document No. 19". FIA.com. Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 1 September 2018. https://www.fia.com/file/72364/download?token=UjNJ_8DL. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "Italy Grand Prix 2018 Race Results". formula1.com (Formula One Administration). 2 September 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2018/races/992/italy/race-result.html. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ↑ "Grosjean disqualified from Italian GP, Haas to appeal". Formula One Administration. 2 September 2018. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2018/9/grosjean-disqualified-from-italian-gp.html. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
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