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Italian Grand Prix

The Italian Grand Prix (Italian: Gran Premio d'Italia) is the fifth oldest national Grand Prix (after the French Grand Prix, the United States Grand Prix, the Spanish Grand Prix and the Russian Grand Prix), having been held since 1921. In 2013 it became the most held Grand Prix (the 2022 edition was the 92nd). It is one of the two Grands Prix (along with the British) which has run as an event of the Formula One World Championship Grands Prix every season, continuously since the championship was introduced in 1950. Every Formula One Italian Grand Prix in the World Championship era has been held at Monza except in 1980, when it was held at Imola.

Italian Grand Prix
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
(Intermittentdly 1922–present)
Race information
Number of times held92
First held1921
Most wins (drivers) Michael Schumacher
Lewis Hamilton (5)
Most wins (constructors) Ferrari (20)
Circuit length5.793 km (3.600 miles)
Race length306.720 km (190.596 miles)
Laps53
Last race (2022)
Pole position
Podium
Fastest lap

The Italian Grand Prix counted toward the World Manufacturers' Championship from 1925 to 1928 and toward the European Championship from 1931 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1938. It was additionally designated the European Grand Prix seven times between 1923 and 1967, when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one Grand Prix race in Europe. Four editions before the World Championship were held in places other than Monza: Montichiari (1921), Livorno (1937), Milan (1947) and Turin (1948).

The event is due to take place at the Monza Circuit until at least 2025.[1]

History

Origins

The first Italian Grand Prix took place on 4 September 1921 at a 10.7-mile (17.3 km) circuit near Montichiari.[2] However, the race is more closely associated with the course at Monza, a racing facility just outside the northern city of Milan, Italy's second largest city and its economic capital. The circuit is specifically located in its namesake suburban town, which was built in 1922 in time for that year's race, and has been the location for most of the races over the years. Monza was built in the Parco di Monza, a public city park with a largely woodland setting, where the famous Royal Villa of Monza is also located.

Autodromo Nazionale di Monza

 
An aerial photograph of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza.

The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza was completed in 1922 and was just the third permanent autodrome in the world at that time; Brooklands in England and Indianapolis in the United States were the two others. European motor racing pioneers Vincenzo Lancia and Felice Nazzaro laid the last two bricks at Monza. The circuit was 10 km (6.25 miles) long, with a flat banked section and a road circuit combined into one. It was fast, and always provided excitement. The 1923 race included one of Harry A. Miller's rare European appearances with his single seat "American Miller 122" driven by Count Louis Zborowski of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang fame. Zborowski was killed at the following year's Grand Prix at Monza driving a Mercedes.

 
1931 GP race start

The 1928 race was the first of many tragedies that befell this venue. Italians Emilio Materassi in a Talbot and Giulio Foresti in a Bugatti were battling around the fast circuit. As they came off the banking onto the left side of the pit straight at 125 mph (200 km/h), one of the front wheels of Materassi's overtaking Talbot touched one of the rear wheels of the Bugatti. Materassi lost control of the car, swerved left, cleared a 15-foot wide and 10-foot deep ditch and ploughed into the unprotected grandstand opposite the pits, killing himself and 27 spectators, and injuring another 26. It was the worst accident in motor racing history and remained so until the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Italian Grand Prix went on a three-year hiatus (but the alternative non-championship Monza Grand Prix was run in 1929 and 1930) until the 1931 race, held in late May instead of the traditional early September, was won by Giuseppe Campari and Tazio Nuvolari, sharing an Alfa Romeo. The 1931 race was something of an endurance race; it took ten hours to complete. The great Nuvolari won again in a shortened 1932 race, this time held in early June.

The black day of 1933

 
1933 poster

In 1933, with the race being held this time at the traditional timeframe of early September, disaster struck again. Three top drivers were killed during the course of the Monza Grand Prix, a Formula Libre race held over three heats and a final in the afternoon of 10 September, after the Italian Grand Prix itself had been held in the morning, on what became known as the "Black Day of Monza".[3] During the second heat, there was a reported patch of oil on the south banking that had come from a Duesenberg, driven by Count Carlo Felice Trossi, and Giuseppe Campari in a Ferrari-entered Alfa Romeo and his protege Baconin Borzacchini in a Maserati were already battling ferociously; and Borzacchini and Campari went through the south banking on the first lap, wheel to wheel. Borzacchini went through the oily patch, lost control, spun wildly and the Maserati then overturned and violently flipped multiple times, and by the time the wrecked car came to a stop, Borzacchini was pinned underneath and was being crushed by his car, not having been thrown out. And while Borzacchini's Maserati had been crashing all over the track, Campari swerved to avoid him, and by doing this, his car went up and flew off the banking and crashed into trees situated right next to the track. Campari broke his neck and was killed instantly, and Borzacchini died later that day in a Monza hospital.

Prior to the final, there was a drivers meeting to discuss the oil patch, and it was decided to clean it up. On the eighth lap, Polish aristocrat Count Stanislas Czaykowski was on the south banking when his Bugatti's engine blew up, and a fuel line then broke. The fuel from the Bugatti's tank caught fire after touching the very hot front section of the Bugatti where the engine and gearbox were and the burning fuel sprayed onto Czaykowski. Blinded by the smoke and flames on him, he went up and flew off the banking- at the same spot where Campari and Borzacchini had crashed. The Polish driver, unable to put out the flames on his body which was fuelled by the fuel from his wrecked Bugatti, then burned to death. Frenchman Marcel Lehoux in a Bugatti was declared the winner of the shortened event.[3]

Enzo Ferrari, who had been close to Campari and Borzacchini; the former deciding to defect from Ferrari's team to Maserati, became hardened by this tragedy. Today, racing historians conclude that the events of this race marked a watershed, notably for Enzo Ferrari. It was the end to the joyful era of racing and the beginning of a harsher new age. Safety in those days was completely non-existent. The circuit's condition was virtually identical of that to an ordinary town and country road, except instead of the surface being made of dirt and/or tarmac, it was made of tarmac, concrete and/or bricks. Spectators often stood very close to or even next to the track and they had no protection of any kind other than common sense. What was particularly tragic about the 41-year old Campari's death was that he had announced his retirement at the French Grand Prix two months earlier, to focus on his opera singing exploits.[4]

The Florio circuit and other locations

After the disastrous 1933 race, something had to be done to Monza. In 1934 a short version of Florio Circuit (introduced in 1930 for Monza Grand Prix) was used: the drivers had to start from the main straight but taking the south curve of the high speed ring (interrupted by a double chicane) in the opposite direction compared to the usual one; then, through the connection introduced a few years before by Florio, they took the central straight, the south curve (also interrupted by a chicane) and the main straight; finally a 180 ° hairpin turned back to the finish line. This configuration was considered too slow and since the following year Florio circuit (with five chicanes) was used. These races were at a time when Mercedes and Auto Union became involved in motor racing; the German Silver Arrows won all of these races; with superstar Rudolf Caracciola winning in 1934 and in 1937 when the Italian Grand Prix was held at a street circuit in Livorno. 1938 saw a return to Monza, which was won by Nuvolari driving a mid-engined Auto Union; just after the race renovation works began but in 1939 World War II broke out and the Italian Grand Prix did not return until 1947.

1947 saw the Italian Grand Prix being held at a fairgrounds park in the city of Milan's district of Portello , and this race was won by Italian Carlo Felice Trossi driving an Alfa Romeo. Italian Giovanni Bracco went off the road in his Delage and crashed into a group of spectators, killing five. This venue was never used again for racing, and 1948 saw it being held in Valentino Park, a public park in Turin. The 1949 race returned to Monza where it stayed for the next 30 years with the configuration ready before the war but never used yet.

Monza's redevelopments (1949–1979)

Monza's banking had been built over and only the road circuit was used, which had been modified slightly. The new long, fluid final corner was now two around 90-degree corners. 1949 saw Italian new-boy Alberto Ascari, son of the late 1924 Italian Grand Prix winner Antonio Ascari, win in his Ferrari; Enzo Ferrari was now building his own cars instead of running Alfa Romeos. 1950 saw the new Formula One Championship being established. The race and the first championship was won by Giuseppe "Nino" Farina, driving a supercharged Alfa Romeo 158. 1951 saw Ascari win again, after the competitive Alfas of Farina and Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio ran into engine problems. 1952 saw Ascari complete his domination of that season. 1953 Fangio won in a Maserati; although Ascari had already won the championship at the Swiss Grand Prix. 1954 turned out to be an interesting race; as up-and-comer Stirling Moss in a Maserati passed both Fangio's Mercedes and Ascari's Ferrari. The furious pace saw the retirement of Moss and Ascari and Fangio went on to win while Moss pushed his Maserati 250F over the line.

 
1953 GP race start

After the 1954 running, work began on entirely revamping the circuit. New facilities were built and a new corner, the Parabolica, was built right before the pits. Extra track used for a short course was eliminated. The biggest change was the construction of the new Monza banking. Built on top of where the almost flat, narrow original banking was, these huge concrete bankings, called the sopraelevata curves, were built in the same shape as the original banking had been. The only significant difference was that the Curva Sud was moved slightly to the north. This course was combined with the road course for the 1955 event, which was won by Fangio and was the last race contested by a full-fledged Mercedes factory effort in Formula One until 2010. The 10 km Monza circuit was now so fast that F1 cars were averaging 135+ mph per lap- though rather unremarkable by today's standards, these average speeds were even faster than the Indianapolis Speedway oval in the United States. 1956 saw an exciting race, with championship contenders Fangio, Briton Peter Collins (both in Ferraris) and Frenchman Jean Behra in a Maserati fight over the win. Stirling Moss was already out of championship contention; and Fangio retired with a broken steering arm. The Ferrari team called for Italian Luigi Musso to hand his car over to Fangio. Musso ignored the order so Collins came in and handed his car and his championship chances to Fangio. Behra had retired early with a magneto problem in his own car and took over his teammate Umberto Maglioli's car; but he retired that car, too. Musso ended up leading after Moss ran out of fuel coming through Vialone. Moss was able to refuel his car and storm off after Musso and eventually the Italian retired with steering problems, and Moss, with Fangio catching him up fast, stormed round the track to take victory. Fangio took second and his fourth Drivers' Championship.

1957 saw the organizers choose to use the road circuit only, as the rough, poorly constructed banking had caused problems for the Ferrari and Maserati cars the year before. Moss won again in a Vanwall, and Briton Tony Brooks won next year's race, and Moss won the 1959 event in a Cooper-Climax. 1960, however was not so straightforward. Ferrari with their front-engined cars, had lost out to the advanced mid-engined British cars. Seeing an opportunity, the Italian organizers decided to re-include the banking with the road circuit, making Monza even faster and more in favour to the powerful Ferraris. The British teams were unhappy as they cited the fragility of the banking, which was extremely rough, had a concrete surface instead of asphalt, was of very poor quality and was supported by stilts rather than solid bedrock; the argument being that it was too dangerous for Formula One cars. The British teams boycotted the race, so Ferrari had no competition. American Phil Hill took victory, in what was the last victory for a front-engined Formula One car.

1961 saw a return to the combined circuit, but it was to see yet another tragedy. Two Ferrari drivers, Hill and German count Wolfgang von Trips, came into the race with a chance at winning the championship. Fighting for fourth place while Hill was leading and while von Trips approached the Parabolica, the Briton Jim Clark slightly moved over into the path of the German and the two collided. Von Trips crashed into an embankment next to the road and then went flying into a crowd of people standing on it. Von Trips was thrown out of his car and was killed, as were 14 spectators. Clark survived but was hounded by Italian police for months after the incident. Hill won the race and the championship by one point. The race was not stopped, allegedly to assist rescue work for the injured.

 
The end of 1971 GP

1962 saw a return to the road circuit only and the banking was never used again for Formula One. It still stands, but in decrepit condition for a long time before being restored in the early 2010s; the last time it was used was in 1969 for the 1000 kilometre sports car race that year. Briton Graham Hill won the race, and won the Drivers' Championship in South Africa soon afterward. 1963 saw an attempted use of the extremely fast full circuit again, and the drivers ran the course during Friday practice but the concrete banking was so rough and bumpy that cars were being mechanically torn apart. It was feared that there would be no finishers for the race itself. Briton Bob Anderson's Lola crashed after losing a wheel on the banking, although he was not injured); the drivers then threatened to walk off unless they raced on the road circuit only, which is what happened. Jim Clark won the race in a Lotus. Ferrari driver John Surtees won in 1964, and Briton Jackie Stewart won his first of 27 Grand Prix victories in 1965, driving for BRM. Against team orders, he fought hard with his teammate Graham Hill, Hill made a mistake at the Parabolica and Stewart was in command; this was all to the chagrin of team boss Tony Rudd. 1966 saw Italian Ludovico Scarfiotti win, and no other Italian has won the race since. 1967 was to be a race of interest and was to produce the first of three close finishes on the fast Monza circuit over the next four years. Surtees, now driving for Honda, battled with Australian Jack Brabham, and Surtees won the race by two-tenths of a second; and Clark, who had problems at the beginning of the race and lost a whole lap, stormed around the circuit, equalled his pole position time and unlapped himself to take the lead- but his fuel pump broke and he coasted over the line to finish third. 1969 saw four drivers; Stewart, Austrian Jochen Rindt, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Beltoise and New Zealander Bruce McLaren battle right down to the line. Stewart came out on top and beat Rindt by eight-hundredths of a second. The four drivers were all within two-tenths of a second of each other. With this win, Stewart won his first of three championships.1970 saw Rindt's fatal crash during qualifying at the wheel of his rear wing-less Lotus; his car suffered brake shaft failure, veered off the track, hit and went under the improperly-secured guardrail on the left and spun multiple times. Rindt died not because of the impact but because he had not properly secured his seat belts and the buckle had slit his throat. Rindt became the only posthumous world champion, after Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx failed to overhaul Rindt. Ickx's teammate Clay Regazzoni won the race, which saw 28 lead changes. 1971 was to see the third close finish in four years. Briton Peter Gethin, Swede Ronnie Peterson, Frenchman François Cevert, Briton Mike Hailwood and New Zealander Howden Ganley battled for the lead all race. On the last lap, Peterson got the inside line for the Parabolica, but Gethin got in front going alongside Peterson through the long right-hand corner, and beat Peterson to the checkered flag by the slimmest of margins; one-one hundredth of a second. Cevert and Hailwood finished within two-tenths and Ganley was half a second behind.

1972 saw changes to Monza. The 1971 race was the fastest Formula One race ever at that point in time. It was really just a bunch of straights and fast corners and F1 cars had become increasingly advanced and much faster, and the drivers were constantly slipstreaming each other around the circuit. A small chicane was put at the end of the pit straight and another one at the Vialone curve; Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi won that race and his first Drivers' Championship at only 25 years of age. His chief rival Jackie Stewart went out at the start with a broken gearbox. In 1973, Stewart punctured a tire early in the race and went into the pits to have it changed; he came out in 20th place and finished fourth in the race while Fittipaldi finished second; this was enough for Stewart to win his third and final Drivers' Championship. 1974 saw further changes with the Vialone chicane changed and renamed Variante Ascari, which was the place where Alberto Ascari was killed in 1955 testing a Ferrari sportscar. Like the year before, Peterson won and Fittipaldi finished second, now driving for McLaren. 1975, however, was an event to remember. Ferrari, which had regrouped completely under the leadership of Luca di Montezemolo, reached the high point of its resurgence.

 
1975 GP race start

The Ferrari camp was feeling relaxed while rising star and championship leader Niki Lauda was leading the Drivers' Championship, and the team was leading the Constructors' Championship. Fittipaldi and Argentine Carlos Reutemann had to win in order to have a chance at staying in the championship chase. When the race started, Lauda's teammate Clay Regazzoni took the lead, with Lauda following; and Fittipaldi stormed round the circuit in an effort to catch the two Ferraris. Fittipaldi passed Lauda for second but this did not matter as Lauda only needed fifth to secure the drivers' title. Regazzoni took victory, followed by Fittipaldi and Lauda, who won his first drivers' title and Ferrari also won the Constructors' Championship at the same event. 1976 saw further changes to Monza's layout. Two chicanes, called Variante Rettifilo were installed just before the Curva Grande, and another chicane, the Variante della Roggia, was installed just before the Lesmo bends. Lauda, who had come back to racing only six weeks after his horrendous crash at the Nürburgring; finished fourth while Peterson won. 1977 saw Italian-American Mario Andretti win in a Lotus; but the next year's race was to add another page of tragedy to Monza's history.

Peterson had re-joined Lotus at the beginning of the 1978 season and had challenged his teammate Andretti all the way. Peterson had crashed his car in practice, and had to use Andretti's spare car, not a comfortable fit for the tall Swede, in contrast to the diminutive American. As the race started, there was a huge, fiery multi-car pile-up on the approach to the first corner. One of the victims was Peterson; his car slammed head-on into the Armco barriers and had caught fire. Instead of the ill-equipped marshals, Briton James Hunt, with the help of Frenchman Patrick Depailler and Regazzoni ran towards Peterson's aid and pulled him out of the burning Lotus. Peterson suffered severe leg injuries, and he died from embolism complications a day later. With Peterson's retirement from the race, Andretti won the Drivers' Championship. The race itself was an interesting one; during the parade lap South African Jody Scheckter lost a wheel from his Wolf at the second Lesmo curve and hit an Armco barrier right next to the track. Andretti, Hunt, Lauda, Fittipaldi and Reutemann went to inspect the damage, and they refused to start until it had been repaired; and it was repaired in time; although the race started well after it was supposed to. The cars were shown the green light while the back half of the field was still in motion (this often happened at Monza and it had happened during the first start); and due to the visible excitement of the start official Andretti and Canadian Gilles Villeneuve jumped the start and were penalised a minute; Lauda went on to take victory in his Alfa-powered Brabham in a shortened race distance; it was getting dark by the time the checkered flag was shown to the Austrian driver. 1979 saw changes to Monza, run off areas were added to the Curva Grande and Lesmo corners and the track was upgraded. Scheckter, now driving for Ferrari, won the race and the Drivers' Championship.

Imola 1980 and Monza's further redevelopments

In 1979, it was announced that the Autodromo Dino Ferrari, also known as Imola, would host the Italian Grand Prix for 1980 while Monza underwent a major upgrade, including building a new pit complex. The Imola circuit had been used for a non-championship event in 1979 and had hosted a variety of non-championship races since 1953; this circuit was closer to the Ferrari factory in Maranello. Imola's one-time running of the Italian GP was won by Brazilian Nelson Piquet after the two turbo Renaults of Jean-Pierre Jabouille and René Arnoux retired.

 
The podium ceremony at the 1995 GP

The Italian Grand Prix returned to Monza for 1981, and it has stayed there ever since. The Imola circuit was not to leave Formula One, it hosted the San Marino Grand Prix from 1981 to 2006. The 1981 Italian Grand Prix was won by rising star Alain Prost, and that race saw Briton John Watson have a huge accident at the second Lesmo Curve which also took out Italian Michele Alboreto. Watson was uninjured in his carbon-fibre McLaren. 1982 was won by Prost's teammate René Arnoux; and Prost also won the exciting 1985 event, this time driving a McLaren.

Prost's championship rivals Alboreto (now driving a Ferrari) and Finn Keke Rosberg in a Williams both retired. 1988 saw a memorable win; as McLaren had won every race up to the Italian Grand Prix; Prost had gone out with engine problems and his teammate Ayrton Senna had crashed into a backmarker with two laps to go- and Austrian Gerhard Berger in a Ferrari took victory, followed by Alboreto to make it a Ferrari 1–2. This was particularly memorable because Enzo Ferrari had died a month before this event.

1989 saw Prost win after the Honda engine in Senna's McLaren expired; but Senna took victory the following year. 1991 saw a battle between Senna and the two Williams drivers of Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese. Mansell won, Senna finished 2nd and Patrese went out with gearbox problems. Senna won again in 1992, and 1993 saw Williams drivers Alain Prost and Damon Hill battle hard, and while leading, Prost's engine failed and Hill went on to take victory.

In response to the Imola tragedies in 1994, the second Lesmo curve was slowed down but the race risked being canceled due to the bureaucratic and environmental difficulties of modifying the track. Other changes were made in 1995 at Curva Grande, Variante della Roggia and both Lesmo Corners, which were anticipated for to create wider runoff areas. 1996 saw Michael Schumacher win for Ferrari, and 1999 saw championship leader Mika Hakkinen crash and the Finn, false to temperament, went behind a few bushes in the circuit and broke down crying. 2000 saw further changes to the circuit, which have stayed since; the Variante Rettifilo was made into a two corner sequence instead of a three corner sequence. The race that year started off tragically, as an accident during the start at the Variante della Roggia resulted in a marshal being struck in the head and chest by a loose wheel from German Heinz-Harald Frentzen's Jordan. 33-year-old Paolo Gislimberti was given a heart massage at the scene, but later died from his injuries. On a more positive note, the decade also started off with a romp of Ferrari victories, winning in 2000 and 2002–2004.

 
The fans' invasion at the end of 2011 GP

After winning the 2006 Italian Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher announced his retirement from Formula 1 racing at the end of the 2006 season. Kimi Räikkönen replaced him at Ferrari from the start of the 2007 season. At the 2008 Italian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel became the youngest driver in history to win a Formula One Grand Prix. Aged 21 years and 74 days, Vettel broke the record set by Fernando Alonso at the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix by 317 days as he won in wet conditions at Monza.

Vettel led for the majority of the Grand Prix and crossed the finish line 12.5 seconds ahead of McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen. Earlier in the weekend, he had already become the youngest pole sitter, after setting the fastest times in both Q2 and Q3 qualifying stages. His win also gave him the record of youngest podium-finisher. Vettel also won in 2011, after a spectacular pass at the Curva Grande, passing Fernando Alonso on the outside of the big, long curve.

Uncertainty grew over the fact that Monza would continue to host the race as Rome had signed a deal to host Formula One from 2012. On 18 March 2010 however, Bernie Ecclestone and the Monza track managers signed a deal which assured the race being held there until at least 2016.[5]

The 2020 Italian Grand Prix saw the fastest ever qualifying lap, set by Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes car in a time of 1:18.887 at an average speed of 264.362 km/h (164.267 mph).[6][7]

A total of eleven Italian drivers have won the Italian Grand Prix; seven before World War II and four when it was part of the world championship; most recently Ludovico Scarfiotti won in 1966. Alberto Ascari won the race three times (once before Formula One and twice during the Formula One championship). Elio de Angelis and Riccardo Patrese both won the San Marino Grand Prix in 1985 and 1990 respectively, so they won in the home soil but not in Monza. Both Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton have won it five times and Nelson Piquet has won it four times. Ferrari have won their home Grand Prix 20 times.

Winners of the Italian Grand Prix

Multiple winners (drivers)

Drivers in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season.
A pink background indicates an event which was not part of the Formula One World Championship.
A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war European Championship.

 
Michael Schumacher driving his Ferrari 310B at the 1997 Italian Grand Prix
 
Lewis Hamilton turns into the Roggia chicane in the McLaren MP4-26 at the 2011 Italian Grand Prix

Multiple winners (constructors)

Teams in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season.
A pink background indicates an event which was not part of any championship.
A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war European Grand Prix Championship.
A green background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war World Manufacturers' Championship.

Multiple winners (engine manufacturers)

Manufacturers in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season.
A pink background indicates an event which was not part of any championship.
A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war European Grand Prix Championship.
A green background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war World Manufacturers' Championship.

* Between 1997 and 2005 built by Ilmor, funded by Mercedes

** Built by Cosworth, funded by Ford

*** Built by Porsche

By year

 
Imola circuit used in 1980
 
Monza (albeit some changes) used in 1976–1999
 
Monza (with re-profiling of the Variante Ascari in 1974) used in 1972–1975
 
Monza used from 1957 to 1959 and 1962–1971
 
The combined Monza circuit, used in 1955–1956 and 1960–1961
 
Monza used in 1948–1954
 
Livorno circuit used in 1937
 
Monza used in 1935–1936 (with the five chicanes showed in the map) and in 1938 (with the last chicane only)
 
Monza used in 1922–1933
 
A map of all the locations of the Italian Grand Prix

A pink background indicates an event which was not part of any championship.
A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war European Championship.
A green background indicates an event which was part of the pre-war World Manufacturers' Championship.

Year Driver Constructor Location Report
1921   Jules Goux Ballot Montichiari Report
1922   Pietro Bordino Fiat Monza Report
1923   Carlo Salamano Fiat Report
1924   Antonio Ascari Alfa Romeo Report
1925   Gastone Brilli-Peri Alfa Romeo Monza Report
1926   Louis Charavel Bugatti Report
1927   Robert Benoist Delage Report
1928   Louis Chiron Bugatti Report
1929

1930
Not held due to a hiatus following Emilio Materassi and Giulio Foresti's crash in the 1928 race, which killed Materassi and 27 spectators, and injured 26 spectators.
1931   Giuseppe Campari
  Tazio Nuvolari
Alfa Romeo Monza Report
1932   Tazio Nuvolari Alfa Romeo Report
1933   Luigi Fagioli Alfa Romeo Monza Report
1934   Luigi Fagioli
  Rudolf Caracciola
Mercedes-Benz Report
1935   Hans Stuck Auto Union Monza Report
1936   Bernd Rosemeyer Auto Union Report
1937   Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes-Benz Livorno Report
1938   Tazio Nuvolari Auto Union Monza Report
1939

1946
Not held due to World War II
1947   Carlo Felice Trossi Alfa Romeo Milan Report
1948   Jean-Pierre Wimille Alfa Romeo Turin Report
1949   Alberto Ascari Ferrari Monza Report
1950   Giuseppe Farina Alfa Romeo Monza Report
1951   Alberto Ascari Ferrari Report
1952   Alberto Ascari Ferrari Report
1953   Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati Report
1954   Juan Manuel Fangio Mercedes Report
1955   Juan Manuel Fangio Mercedes Report
1956   Stirling Moss Maserati Report
1957   Stirling Moss Vanwall Report
1958   Tony Brooks Vanwall Report
1959   Stirling Moss Cooper-Climax Report
1960   Phil Hill Ferrari Report
1961   Phil Hill Ferrari Report
1962   Graham Hill BRM Report
1963   Jim Clark Lotus-Climax Report
1964   John Surtees Ferrari Report
1965   Jackie Stewart BRM Report
1966   Ludovico Scarfiotti Ferrari Report
1967   John Surtees Honda Report
1968   Denny Hulme McLaren-Ford Report
1969   Jackie Stewart Matra-Ford Report
1970   Clay Regazzoni Ferrari Report
1971   Peter Gethin BRM Report
1972   Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus-Ford Report
1973   Ronnie Peterson Lotus-Ford Report
1974   Ronnie Peterson Lotus-Ford Report
1975   Clay Regazzoni Ferrari Report
1976   Ronnie Peterson March-Ford Report
1977   Mario Andretti Lotus-Ford Report
1978   Niki Lauda Brabham-Alfa Romeo Report
1979   Jody Scheckter Ferrari Report
1980   Nelson Piquet Brabham-Ford Imola Report
1981   Alain Prost Renault Monza Report
1982   René Arnoux Renault Report
1983   Nelson Piquet Brabham-BMW Report
1984   Niki Lauda McLaren-TAG Report
1985   Alain Prost McLaren-TAG Report
1986   Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda Report
1987   Nelson Piquet Williams-Honda Report
1988   Gerhard Berger Ferrari Report
1989   Alain Prost McLaren-Honda Report
1990   Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda Report
1991   Nigel Mansell Williams-Renault Report
1992   Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda Report
1993   Damon Hill Williams-Renault Report
1994   Damon Hill Williams-Renault Report
1995   Johnny Herbert Benetton-Renault Report
1996   Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report
1997   David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes Report
1998   Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report
1999   Heinz-Harald Frentzen Jordan-Mugen-Honda Report
2000   Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report
2001   Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW Report
2002   Rubens Barrichello Ferrari Report
2003   Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report
2004   Rubens Barrichello Ferrari Report
2005   Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes Report
2006   Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report
2007   Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes Report
2008   Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari Report
2009   Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes Report
2010   Fernando Alonso Ferrari Report
2011   Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault Report
2012   Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes Report
2013   Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault Report
2014   Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Report
2015   Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Report
2016   Nico Rosberg Mercedes Report
2017   Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Report
2018   Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Report
2019   Charles Leclerc Ferrari Report
2020   Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-Honda Report
2021   Daniel Ricciardo McLaren-Mercedes Report
2022   Max Verstappen Red Bull-RBPT Report
Sources:[8][9]

References

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This article is about the Formula One race For other uses see Italian Grand Prix disambiguation This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Italian Grand Prix news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Italian Grand Prix Italian Gran Premio d Italia is the fifth oldest national Grand Prix after the French Grand Prix the United States Grand Prix the Spanish Grand Prix and the Russian Grand Prix having been held since 1921 In 2013 it became the most held Grand Prix the 2022 edition was the 92nd It is one of the two Grands Prix along with the British which has run as an event of the Formula One World Championship Grands Prix every season continuously since the championship was introduced in 1950 Every Formula One Italian Grand Prix in the World Championship era has been held at Monza except in 1980 when it was held at Imola Italian Grand PrixAutodromo Nazionale di Monza Intermittentdly 1922 present Race informationNumber of times held92First held1921Most wins drivers Michael Schumacher Lewis Hamilton 5 Most wins constructors Ferrari 20 Circuit length5 793 km 3 600 miles Race length306 720 km 190 596 miles Laps53Last race 2022 Pole positionCharles LeclercFerrari1 20 161Podium1 M VerstappenRed Bull Racing RBPT1 20 27 511 2 C LeclercFerrari 2 446 3 G RussellMercedes 3 405Fastest lapSergio PerezRed Bull Racing RBPT1 24 030The Italian Grand Prix counted toward the World Manufacturers Championship from 1925 to 1928 and toward the European Championship from 1931 to 1932 and from 1935 to 1938 It was additionally designated the European Grand Prix seven times between 1923 and 1967 when this title was an honorary designation given each year to one Grand Prix race in Europe Four editions before the World Championship were held in places other than Monza Montichiari 1921 Livorno 1937 Milan 1947 and Turin 1948 The event is due to take place at the Monza Circuit until at least 2025 1 Contents 1 History 1 1 Origins 1 1 1 Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 1 2 The black day of 1933 1 3 The Florio circuit and other locations 1 4 Monza s redevelopments 1949 1979 1 5 Imola 1980 and Monza s further redevelopments 2 Winners of the Italian Grand Prix 2 1 Multiple winners drivers 2 2 Multiple winners constructors 2 3 Multiple winners engine manufacturers 2 4 By year 3 References 4 External linksHistory EditOrigins Edit The first Italian Grand Prix took place on 4 September 1921 at a 10 7 mile 17 3 km circuit near Montichiari 2 However the race is more closely associated with the course at Monza a racing facility just outside the northern city of Milan Italy s second largest city and its economic capital The circuit is specifically located in its namesake suburban town which was built in 1922 in time for that year s race and has been the location for most of the races over the years Monza was built in the Parco di Monza a public city park with a largely woodland setting where the famous Royal Villa of Monza is also located Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Edit Further information Autodromo Nazionale di Monza An aerial photograph of the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza was completed in 1922 and was just the third permanent autodrome in the world at that time Brooklands in England and Indianapolis in the United States were the two others European motor racing pioneers Vincenzo Lancia and Felice Nazzaro laid the last two bricks at Monza The circuit was 10 km 6 25 miles long with a flat banked section and a road circuit combined into one It was fast and always provided excitement The 1923 race included one of Harry A Miller s rare European appearances with his single seat American Miller 122 driven by Count Louis Zborowski of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang fame Zborowski was killed at the following year s Grand Prix at Monza driving a Mercedes 1931 GP race start The 1928 race was the first of many tragedies that befell this venue Italians Emilio Materassi in a Talbot and Giulio Foresti in a Bugatti were battling around the fast circuit As they came off the banking onto the left side of the pit straight at 125 mph 200 km h one of the front wheels of Materassi s overtaking Talbot touched one of the rear wheels of the Bugatti Materassi lost control of the car swerved left cleared a 15 foot wide and 10 foot deep ditch and ploughed into the unprotected grandstand opposite the pits killing himself and 27 spectators and injuring another 26 It was the worst accident in motor racing history and remained so until the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans The Italian Grand Prix went on a three year hiatus but the alternative non championship Monza Grand Prix was run in 1929 and 1930 until the 1931 race held in late May instead of the traditional early September was won by Giuseppe Campari and Tazio Nuvolari sharing an Alfa Romeo The 1931 race was something of an endurance race it took ten hours to complete The great Nuvolari won again in a shortened 1932 race this time held in early June The black day of 1933 Edit 1933 poster In 1933 with the race being held this time at the traditional timeframe of early September disaster struck again Three top drivers were killed during the course of the Monza Grand Prix a Formula Libre race held over three heats and a final in the afternoon of 10 September after the Italian Grand Prix itself had been held in the morning on what became known as the Black Day of Monza 3 During the second heat there was a reported patch of oil on the south banking that had come from a Duesenberg driven by Count Carlo Felice Trossi and Giuseppe Campari in a Ferrari entered Alfa Romeo and his protege Baconin Borzacchini in a Maserati were already battling ferociously and Borzacchini and Campari went through the south banking on the first lap wheel to wheel Borzacchini went through the oily patch lost control spun wildly and the Maserati then overturned and violently flipped multiple times and by the time the wrecked car came to a stop Borzacchini was pinned underneath and was being crushed by his car not having been thrown out And while Borzacchini s Maserati had been crashing all over the track Campari swerved to avoid him and by doing this his car went up and flew off the banking and crashed into trees situated right next to the track Campari broke his neck and was killed instantly and Borzacchini died later that day in a Monza hospital Prior to the final there was a drivers meeting to discuss the oil patch and it was decided to clean it up On the eighth lap Polish aristocrat Count Stanislas Czaykowski was on the south banking when his Bugatti s engine blew up and a fuel line then broke The fuel from the Bugatti s tank caught fire after touching the very hot front section of the Bugatti where the engine and gearbox were and the burning fuel sprayed onto Czaykowski Blinded by the smoke and flames on him he went up and flew off the banking at the same spot where Campari and Borzacchini had crashed The Polish driver unable to put out the flames on his body which was fuelled by the fuel from his wrecked Bugatti then burned to death Frenchman Marcel Lehoux in a Bugatti was declared the winner of the shortened event 3 Enzo Ferrari who had been close to Campari and Borzacchini the former deciding to defect from Ferrari s team to Maserati became hardened by this tragedy Today racing historians conclude that the events of this race marked a watershed notably for Enzo Ferrari It was the end to the joyful era of racing and the beginning of a harsher new age Safety in those days was completely non existent The circuit s condition was virtually identical of that to an ordinary town and country road except instead of the surface being made of dirt and or tarmac it was made of tarmac concrete and or bricks Spectators often stood very close to or even next to the track and they had no protection of any kind other than common sense What was particularly tragic about the 41 year old Campari s death was that he had announced his retirement at the French Grand Prix two months earlier to focus on his opera singing exploits 4 The Florio circuit and other locations Edit After the disastrous 1933 race something had to be done to Monza In 1934 a short version of Florio Circuit introduced in 1930 for Monza Grand Prix was used the drivers had to start from the main straight but taking the south curve of the high speed ring interrupted by a double chicane in the opposite direction compared to the usual one then through the connection introduced a few years before by Florio they took the central straight the south curve also interrupted by a chicane and the main straight finally a 180 hairpin turned back to the finish line This configuration was considered too slow and since the following year Florio circuit with five chicanes was used These races were at a time when Mercedes and Auto Union became involved in motor racing the German Silver Arrows won all of these races with superstar Rudolf Caracciola winning in 1934 and in 1937 when the Italian Grand Prix was held at a street circuit in Livorno 1938 saw a return to Monza which was won by Nuvolari driving a mid engined Auto Union just after the race renovation works began but in 1939 World War II broke out and the Italian Grand Prix did not return until 1947 1947 saw the Italian Grand Prix being held at a fairgrounds park in the city of Milan s district of Portello and this race was won by Italian Carlo Felice Trossi driving an Alfa Romeo Italian Giovanni Bracco went off the road in his Delage and crashed into a group of spectators killing five This venue was never used again for racing and 1948 saw it being held in Valentino Park a public park in Turin The 1949 race returned to Monza where it stayed for the next 30 years with the configuration ready before the war but never used yet Monza s redevelopments 1949 1979 Edit Monza s banking had been built over and only the road circuit was used which had been modified slightly The new long fluid final corner was now two around 90 degree corners 1949 saw Italian new boy Alberto Ascari son of the late 1924 Italian Grand Prix winner Antonio Ascari win in his Ferrari Enzo Ferrari was now building his own cars instead of running Alfa Romeos 1950 saw the new Formula One Championship being established The race and the first championship was won by Giuseppe Nino Farina driving a supercharged Alfa Romeo 158 1951 saw Ascari win again after the competitive Alfas of Farina and Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio ran into engine problems 1952 saw Ascari complete his domination of that season 1953 Fangio won in a Maserati although Ascari had already won the championship at the Swiss Grand Prix 1954 turned out to be an interesting race as up and comer Stirling Moss in a Maserati passed both Fangio s Mercedes and Ascari s Ferrari The furious pace saw the retirement of Moss and Ascari and Fangio went on to win while Moss pushed his Maserati 250F over the line 1953 GP race start After the 1954 running work began on entirely revamping the circuit New facilities were built and a new corner the Parabolica was built right before the pits Extra track used for a short course was eliminated The biggest change was the construction of the new Monza banking Built on top of where the almost flat narrow original banking was these huge concrete bankings called the sopraelevata curves were built in the same shape as the original banking had been The only significant difference was that the Curva Sud was moved slightly to the north This course was combined with the road course for the 1955 event which was won by Fangio and was the last race contested by a full fledged Mercedes factory effort in Formula One until 2010 The 10 km Monza circuit was now so fast that F1 cars were averaging 135 mph per lap though rather unremarkable by today s standards these average speeds were even faster than the Indianapolis Speedway oval in the United States 1956 saw an exciting race with championship contenders Fangio Briton Peter Collins both in Ferraris and Frenchman Jean Behra in a Maserati fight over the win Stirling Moss was already out of championship contention and Fangio retired with a broken steering arm The Ferrari team called for Italian Luigi Musso to hand his car over to Fangio Musso ignored the order so Collins came in and handed his car and his championship chances to Fangio Behra had retired early with a magneto problem in his own car and took over his teammate Umberto Maglioli s car but he retired that car too Musso ended up leading after Moss ran out of fuel coming through Vialone Moss was able to refuel his car and storm off after Musso and eventually the Italian retired with steering problems and Moss with Fangio catching him up fast stormed round the track to take victory Fangio took second and his fourth Drivers Championship 1957 saw the organizers choose to use the road circuit only as the rough poorly constructed banking had caused problems for the Ferrari and Maserati cars the year before Moss won again in a Vanwall and Briton Tony Brooks won next year s race and Moss won the 1959 event in a Cooper Climax 1960 however was not so straightforward Ferrari with their front engined cars had lost out to the advanced mid engined British cars Seeing an opportunity the Italian organizers decided to re include the banking with the road circuit making Monza even faster and more in favour to the powerful Ferraris The British teams were unhappy as they cited the fragility of the banking which was extremely rough had a concrete surface instead of asphalt was of very poor quality and was supported by stilts rather than solid bedrock the argument being that it was too dangerous for Formula One cars The British teams boycotted the race so Ferrari had no competition American Phil Hill took victory in what was the last victory for a front engined Formula One car 1961 saw a return to the combined circuit but it was to see yet another tragedy Two Ferrari drivers Hill and German count Wolfgang von Trips came into the race with a chance at winning the championship Fighting for fourth place while Hill was leading and while von Trips approached the Parabolica the Briton Jim Clark slightly moved over into the path of the German and the two collided Von Trips crashed into an embankment next to the road and then went flying into a crowd of people standing on it Von Trips was thrown out of his car and was killed as were 14 spectators Clark survived but was hounded by Italian police for months after the incident Hill won the race and the championship by one point The race was not stopped allegedly to assist rescue work for the injured The end of 1971 GP 1962 saw a return to the road circuit only and the banking was never used again for Formula One It still stands but in decrepit condition for a long time before being restored in the early 2010s the last time it was used was in 1969 for the 1000 kilometre sports car race that year Briton Graham Hill won the race and won the Drivers Championship in South Africa soon afterward 1963 saw an attempted use of the extremely fast full circuit again and the drivers ran the course during Friday practice but the concrete banking was so rough and bumpy that cars were being mechanically torn apart It was feared that there would be no finishers for the race itself Briton Bob Anderson s Lola crashed after losing a wheel on the banking although he was not injured the drivers then threatened to walk off unless they raced on the road circuit only which is what happened Jim Clark won the race in a Lotus Ferrari driver John Surtees won in 1964 and Briton Jackie Stewart won his first of 27 Grand Prix victories in 1965 driving for BRM Against team orders he fought hard with his teammate Graham Hill Hill made a mistake at the Parabolica and Stewart was in command this was all to the chagrin of team boss Tony Rudd 1966 saw Italian Ludovico Scarfiotti win and no other Italian has won the race since 1967 was to be a race of interest and was to produce the first of three close finishes on the fast Monza circuit over the next four years Surtees now driving for Honda battled with Australian Jack Brabham and Surtees won the race by two tenths of a second and Clark who had problems at the beginning of the race and lost a whole lap stormed around the circuit equalled his pole position time and unlapped himself to take the lead but his fuel pump broke and he coasted over the line to finish third 1969 saw four drivers Stewart Austrian Jochen Rindt Frenchman Jean Pierre Beltoise and New Zealander Bruce McLaren battle right down to the line Stewart came out on top and beat Rindt by eight hundredths of a second The four drivers were all within two tenths of a second of each other With this win Stewart won his first of three championships 1970 saw Rindt s fatal crash during qualifying at the wheel of his rear wing less Lotus his car suffered brake shaft failure veered off the track hit and went under the improperly secured guardrail on the left and spun multiple times Rindt died not because of the impact but because he had not properly secured his seat belts and the buckle had slit his throat Rindt became the only posthumous world champion after Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx failed to overhaul Rindt Ickx s teammate Clay Regazzoni won the race which saw 28 lead changes 1971 was to see the third close finish in four years Briton Peter Gethin Swede Ronnie Peterson Frenchman Francois Cevert Briton Mike Hailwood and New Zealander Howden Ganley battled for the lead all race On the last lap Peterson got the inside line for the Parabolica but Gethin got in front going alongside Peterson through the long right hand corner and beat Peterson to the checkered flag by the slimmest of margins one one hundredth of a second Cevert and Hailwood finished within two tenths and Ganley was half a second behind 1972 saw changes to Monza The 1971 race was the fastest Formula One race ever at that point in time It was really just a bunch of straights and fast corners and F1 cars had become increasingly advanced and much faster and the drivers were constantly slipstreaming each other around the circuit A small chicane was put at the end of the pit straight and another one at the Vialone curve Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi won that race and his first Drivers Championship at only 25 years of age His chief rival Jackie Stewart went out at the start with a broken gearbox In 1973 Stewart punctured a tire early in the race and went into the pits to have it changed he came out in 20th place and finished fourth in the race while Fittipaldi finished second this was enough for Stewart to win his third and final Drivers Championship 1974 saw further changes with the Vialone chicane changed and renamed Variante Ascari which was the place where Alberto Ascari was killed in 1955 testing a Ferrari sportscar Like the year before Peterson won and Fittipaldi finished second now driving for McLaren 1975 however was an event to remember Ferrari which had regrouped completely under the leadership of Luca di Montezemolo reached the high point of its resurgence 1975 GP race start The Ferrari camp was feeling relaxed while rising star and championship leader Niki Lauda was leading the Drivers Championship and the team was leading the Constructors Championship Fittipaldi and Argentine Carlos Reutemann had to win in order to have a chance at staying in the championship chase When the race started Lauda s teammate Clay Regazzoni took the lead with Lauda following and Fittipaldi stormed round the circuit in an effort to catch the two Ferraris Fittipaldi passed Lauda for second but this did not matter as Lauda only needed fifth to secure the drivers title Regazzoni took victory followed by Fittipaldi and Lauda who won his first drivers title and Ferrari also won the Constructors Championship at the same event 1976 saw further changes to Monza s layout Two chicanes called Variante Rettifilo were installed just before the Curva Grande and another chicane the Variante della Roggia was installed just before the Lesmo bends Lauda who had come back to racing only six weeks after his horrendous crash at the Nurburgring finished fourth while Peterson won 1977 saw Italian American Mario Andretti win in a Lotus but the next year s race was to add another page of tragedy to Monza s history Peterson had re joined Lotus at the beginning of the 1978 season and had challenged his teammate Andretti all the way Peterson had crashed his car in practice and had to use Andretti s spare car not a comfortable fit for the tall Swede in contrast to the diminutive American As the race started there was a huge fiery multi car pile up on the approach to the first corner One of the victims was Peterson his car slammed head on into the Armco barriers and had caught fire Instead of the ill equipped marshals Briton James Hunt with the help of Frenchman Patrick Depailler and Regazzoni ran towards Peterson s aid and pulled him out of the burning Lotus Peterson suffered severe leg injuries and he died from embolism complications a day later With Peterson s retirement from the race Andretti won the Drivers Championship The race itself was an interesting one during the parade lap South African Jody Scheckter lost a wheel from his Wolf at the second Lesmo curve and hit an Armco barrier right next to the track Andretti Hunt Lauda Fittipaldi and Reutemann went to inspect the damage and they refused to start until it had been repaired and it was repaired in time although the race started well after it was supposed to The cars were shown the green light while the back half of the field was still in motion this often happened at Monza and it had happened during the first start and due to the visible excitement of the start official Andretti and Canadian Gilles Villeneuve jumped the start and were penalised a minute Lauda went on to take victory in his Alfa powered Brabham in a shortened race distance it was getting dark by the time the checkered flag was shown to the Austrian driver 1979 saw changes to Monza run off areas were added to the Curva Grande and Lesmo corners and the track was upgraded Scheckter now driving for Ferrari won the race and the Drivers Championship Imola 1980 and Monza s further redevelopments Edit In 1979 it was announced that the Autodromo Dino Ferrari also known as Imola would host the Italian Grand Prix for 1980 while Monza underwent a major upgrade including building a new pit complex The Imola circuit had been used for a non championship event in 1979 and had hosted a variety of non championship races since 1953 this circuit was closer to the Ferrari factory in Maranello Imola s one time running of the Italian GP was won by Brazilian Nelson Piquet after the two turbo Renaults of Jean Pierre Jabouille and Rene Arnoux retired The podium ceremony at the 1995 GP The Italian Grand Prix returned to Monza for 1981 and it has stayed there ever since The Imola circuit was not to leave Formula One it hosted the San Marino Grand Prix from 1981 to 2006 The 1981 Italian Grand Prix was won by rising star Alain Prost and that race saw Briton John Watson have a huge accident at the second Lesmo Curve which also took out Italian Michele Alboreto Watson was uninjured in his carbon fibre McLaren 1982 was won by Prost s teammate Rene Arnoux and Prost also won the exciting 1985 event this time driving a McLaren Prost s championship rivals Alboreto now driving a Ferrari and Finn Keke Rosberg in a Williams both retired 1988 saw a memorable win as McLaren had won every race up to the Italian Grand Prix Prost had gone out with engine problems and his teammate Ayrton Senna had crashed into a backmarker with two laps to go and Austrian Gerhard Berger in a Ferrari took victory followed by Alboreto to make it a Ferrari 1 2 This was particularly memorable because Enzo Ferrari had died a month before this event 1989 saw Prost win after the Honda engine in Senna s McLaren expired but Senna took victory the following year 1991 saw a battle between Senna and the two Williams drivers of Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese Mansell won Senna finished 2nd and Patrese went out with gearbox problems Senna won again in 1992 and 1993 saw Williams drivers Alain Prost and Damon Hill battle hard and while leading Prost s engine failed and Hill went on to take victory In response to the Imola tragedies in 1994 the second Lesmo curve was slowed down but the race risked being canceled due to the bureaucratic and environmental difficulties of modifying the track Other changes were made in 1995 at Curva Grande Variante della Roggia and both Lesmo Corners which were anticipated for to create wider runoff areas 1996 saw Michael Schumacher win for Ferrari and 1999 saw championship leader Mika Hakkinen crash and the Finn false to temperament went behind a few bushes in the circuit and broke down crying 2000 saw further changes to the circuit which have stayed since the Variante Rettifilo was made into a two corner sequence instead of a three corner sequence The race that year started off tragically as an accident during the start at the Variante della Roggia resulted in a marshal being struck in the head and chest by a loose wheel from German Heinz Harald Frentzen s Jordan 33 year old Paolo Gislimberti was given a heart massage at the scene but later died from his injuries On a more positive note the decade also started off with a romp of Ferrari victories winning in 2000 and 2002 2004 The fans invasion at the end of 2011 GP After winning the 2006 Italian Grand Prix Michael Schumacher announced his retirement from Formula 1 racing at the end of the 2006 season Kimi Raikkonen replaced him at Ferrari from the start of the 2007 season At the 2008 Italian Grand Prix Sebastian Vettel became the youngest driver in history to win a Formula One Grand Prix Aged 21 years and 74 days Vettel broke the record set by Fernando Alonso at the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix by 317 days as he won in wet conditions at Monza Vettel led for the majority of the Grand Prix and crossed the finish line 12 5 seconds ahead of McLaren s Heikki Kovalainen Earlier in the weekend he had already become the youngest pole sitter after setting the fastest times in both Q2 and Q3 qualifying stages His win also gave him the record of youngest podium finisher Vettel also won in 2011 after a spectacular pass at the Curva Grande passing Fernando Alonso on the outside of the big long curve Uncertainty grew over the fact that Monza would continue to host the race as Rome had signed a deal to host Formula One from 2012 On 18 March 2010 however Bernie Ecclestone and the Monza track managers signed a deal which assured the race being held there until at least 2016 5 The 2020 Italian Grand Prix saw the fastest ever qualifying lap set by Lewis Hamilton in a Mercedes car in a time of 1 18 887 at an average speed of 264 362 km h 164 267 mph 6 7 A total of eleven Italian drivers have won the Italian Grand Prix seven before World War II and four when it was part of the world championship most recently Ludovico Scarfiotti won in 1966 Alberto Ascari won the race three times once before Formula One and twice during the Formula One championship Elio de Angelis and Riccardo Patrese both won the San Marino Grand Prix in 1985 and 1990 respectively so they won in the home soil but not in Monza Both Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton have won it five times and Nelson Piquet has won it four times Ferrari have won their home Grand Prix 20 times Winners of the Italian Grand Prix EditMultiple winners drivers Edit Drivers in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season A pink background indicates an event which was not part of the Formula One World Championship A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre war European Championship Michael Schumacher driving his Ferrari 310B at the 1997 Italian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton turns into the Roggia chicane in the McLaren MP4 26 at the 2011 Italian Grand Prix Wins Driver Years won5 Michael Schumacher 1996 1998 2000 2003 2006 Lewis Hamilton 2012 2014 2015 2017 20184 Nelson Piquet 1980 1983 1986 19873 Tazio Nuvolari 1931 1932 1938 Alberto Ascari 1949 1951 1952 Juan Manuel Fangio 1953 1954 1955 Stirling Moss 1956 1957 1959 Ronnie Peterson 1973 1974 1976 Alain Prost 1981 1985 1989 Rubens Barrichello 2002 2004 2009 Sebastian Vettel 2008 2011 20132 Luigi Fagioli 1933 1934 Rudolf Caracciola 1934 1937 Phil Hill 1960 1961 John Surtees 1964 1967 Jackie Stewart 1965 1969 Clay Regazzoni 1970 1975 Niki Lauda 1978 1984 Ayrton Senna 1990 1992 Damon Hill 1993 1994 Juan Pablo Montoya 2001 2005 Fernando Alonso 2007 2010Sources 8 9 Multiple winners constructors Edit Teams in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season A pink background indicates an event which was not part of any championship A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre war European Grand Prix Championship A green background indicates an event which was part of the pre war World Manufacturers Championship Wins Constructor Years won20 Ferrari 1949 1951 1952 1960 1961 1964 1966 1970 1975 1979 1988 1996 1998 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2010 201911 McLaren 1968 1984 1985 1989 1990 1992 1997 2005 2007 2012 20219 Mercedes 1934 1937 1954 1955 2014 2015 2016 2017 20188 Alfa Romeo 1924 1925 1931 1932 1933 1947 1948 19506 Williams 1986 1987 1991 1993 1994 20015 Lotus 1963 1972 1973 1974 19773 Auto Union 1935 1936 1938 BRM 1962 1965 1971 Brabham 1978 1980 1983 Red Bull 2011 2013 20222 Fiat 1922 1923 Bugatti 1926 1928 Maserati 1953 1956 Vanwall 1957 1958 Renault 1981 1982Sources 8 9 Multiple winners engine manufacturers Edit Manufacturers in bold are competing in the Formula One championship in the current season A pink background indicates an event which was not part of any championship A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre war European Grand Prix Championship A green background indicates an event which was part of the pre war World Manufacturers Championship Wins Manufacturer Years won21 Ferrari 1949 1951 1952 1960 1961 1964 1966 1970 1975 1979 1988 1996 1998 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2008 2010 201915 Mercedes 1934 1937 1954 1955 1997 2005 2007 2009 2012 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 20219 Alfa Romeo 1924 1925 1931 1932 1933 1947 1948 1950 19788 Ford 1968 1969 1972 1973 1974 1976 1977 1980 Renault 1981 1982 1991 1993 1994 1995 2011 20137 Honda 1967 1986 1987 1989 1990 1992 20203 Auto Union 1935 1936 1938 BRM 1962 1965 19712 Fiat 1922 1923 Bugatti 1926 1928 Maserati 1953 1956 Vanwall 1957 1958 Climax 1959 1963 TAG 1984 1985 BMW 1983 2001Sources 8 9 Between 1997 and 2005 built by Ilmor funded by Mercedes Built by Cosworth funded by Ford Built by Porsche By year Edit Imola circuit used in 1980 Monza albeit some changes used in 1976 1999 Monza with re profiling of the Variante Ascari in 1974 used in 1972 1975 Monza used from 1957 to 1959 and 1962 1971 The combined Monza circuit used in 1955 1956 and 1960 1961 Monza used in 1948 1954 Livorno circuit used in 1937 Monza used in 1935 1936 with the five chicanes showed in the map and in 1938 with the last chicane only Monza used in 1922 1933 A map of all the locations of the Italian Grand Prix A pink background indicates an event which was not part of any championship A yellow background indicates an event which was part of the pre war European Championship A green background indicates an event which was part of the pre war World Manufacturers Championship Year Driver Constructor Location Report1921 Jules Goux Ballot Montichiari Report1922 Pietro Bordino Fiat Monza Report1923 Carlo Salamano Fiat Report1924 Antonio Ascari Alfa Romeo Report1925 Gastone Brilli Peri Alfa Romeo Monza Report1926 Louis Charavel Bugatti Report1927 Robert Benoist Delage Report1928 Louis Chiron Bugatti Report1929 1930 Not held due to a hiatus following Emilio Materassi and Giulio Foresti s crash in the 1928 race which killed Materassi and 27 spectators and injured 26 spectators 1931 Giuseppe Campari Tazio Nuvolari Alfa Romeo Monza Report1932 Tazio Nuvolari Alfa Romeo Report1933 Luigi Fagioli Alfa Romeo Monza Report1934 Luigi Fagioli Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes Benz Report1935 Hans Stuck Auto Union Monza Report1936 Bernd Rosemeyer Auto Union Report1937 Rudolf Caracciola Mercedes Benz Livorno Report1938 Tazio Nuvolari Auto Union Monza Report1939 1946 Not held due to World War II1947 Carlo Felice Trossi Alfa Romeo Milan Report1948 Jean Pierre Wimille Alfa Romeo Turin Report1949 Alberto Ascari Ferrari Monza Report1950 Giuseppe Farina Alfa Romeo Monza Report1951 Alberto Ascari Ferrari Report1952 Alberto Ascari Ferrari Report1953 Juan Manuel Fangio Maserati Report1954 Juan Manuel Fangio Mercedes Report1955 Juan Manuel Fangio Mercedes Report1956 Stirling Moss Maserati Report1957 Stirling Moss Vanwall Report1958 Tony Brooks Vanwall Report1959 Stirling Moss Cooper Climax Report1960 Phil Hill Ferrari Report1961 Phil Hill Ferrari Report1962 Graham Hill BRM Report1963 Jim Clark Lotus Climax Report1964 John Surtees Ferrari Report1965 Jackie Stewart BRM Report1966 Ludovico Scarfiotti Ferrari Report1967 John Surtees Honda Report1968 Denny Hulme McLaren Ford Report1969 Jackie Stewart Matra Ford Report1970 Clay Regazzoni Ferrari Report1971 Peter Gethin BRM Report1972 Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus Ford Report1973 Ronnie Peterson Lotus Ford Report1974 Ronnie Peterson Lotus Ford Report1975 Clay Regazzoni Ferrari Report1976 Ronnie Peterson March Ford Report1977 Mario Andretti Lotus Ford Report1978 Niki Lauda Brabham Alfa Romeo Report1979 Jody Scheckter Ferrari Report1980 Nelson Piquet Brabham Ford Imola Report1981 Alain Prost Renault Monza Report1982 Rene Arnoux Renault Report1983 Nelson Piquet Brabham BMW Report1984 Niki Lauda McLaren TAG Report1985 Alain Prost McLaren TAG Report1986 Nelson Piquet Williams Honda Report1987 Nelson Piquet Williams Honda Report1988 Gerhard Berger Ferrari Report1989 Alain Prost McLaren Honda Report1990 Ayrton Senna McLaren Honda Report1991 Nigel Mansell Williams Renault Report1992 Ayrton Senna McLaren Honda Report1993 Damon Hill Williams Renault Report1994 Damon Hill Williams Renault Report1995 Johnny Herbert Benetton Renault Report1996 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report1997 David Coulthard McLaren Mercedes Report1998 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report1999 Heinz Harald Frentzen Jordan Mugen Honda Report2000 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report2001 Juan Pablo Montoya Williams BMW Report2002 Rubens Barrichello Ferrari Report2003 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report2004 Rubens Barrichello Ferrari Report2005 Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren Mercedes Report2006 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Report2007 Fernando Alonso McLaren Mercedes Report2008 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso Ferrari Report2009 Rubens Barrichello Brawn Mercedes Report2010 Fernando Alonso Ferrari Report2011 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Renault Report2012 Lewis Hamilton McLaren Mercedes Report2013 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Renault Report2014 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Report2015 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Report2016 Nico Rosberg Mercedes Report2017 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Report2018 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Report2019 Charles Leclerc Ferrari Report2020 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri Honda Report2021 Daniel Ricciardo McLaren Mercedes Report2022 Max Verstappen Red Bull RBPT ReportSources 8 9 References Edit F1 News Italian GP deal extended by an extra year to 2025 Autosport 1 June 2020 Retrieved 3 September 2022 Colin Goodwin The Racing Driver s Pocket Book p 9 ISBN 9781844861347 a b Etzrodt Hans The Black Day of Monza Campari Borzacchini and Czaykowski crashed fatally The Golden Era of Grand Prix Racing The 1933 Monza Grand Prix grandprix com Archived from the original on 6 June 2013 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