What Happened at the 101-year-old Circuit

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 Monza was a lot of fun with some close battles in the top part of the grid for most of the way. If you didn't know, the track had its debut in 1922 on the exact date as this year's race. 

Ferrari's Carlos Sainz ended up on Pole Position and held it for about 15 laps before he was overtook by Max Verstappen. Max ended up winning the race -- and breaking a record with 10 race wins in a row! This beats Sebastian Vettel who set the record of 9 consecutive wins in 2013. 

Red Bull's Checo Perez made his way up the top 10 and into second for the finish, while Carlos did only end up losing one more spot, securing his spot on the podium. Though, his teammate Charles Leclerc did give him a little bit of a run for his money. Leclerc ended up in P4 and less than .20 of a second behind Carlos. 

Alpha Tauri's temporary driver Liam Lawson started in 12th and ended up in 11th, but unfortunately, his teammate Yuki Tsunoda wasn't even able to start the race after coming into engine failure during the formation lap.

This delayed the start of the race by about 20 minutes... and we saw the teams come out onto the track to keep everyone else's tires warm while they removed the car! 

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Alex Albon for Williams Racing started in P6 and ended up in P7 for the finish. And Mclaren's drivers did quite well, but I'm sure not as well as they'd hoped. Rookie Oscar Piastri started in P7, out-qualifying his teammate Lando Norris for the third time this year. Lando started P9 and finished P8. Piastri finished 12th after he was hit with a time penalty for an incident with Liam Lawson. 

The race overall was a really fun one in my opinion and I hope to see even more phenomenal racing in Singapore. 



written by: Randi May

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