The starting grid of the Italian Grand Prix sees eight different teams in the top ten, and only two teams with both cars in the top-ten: McLaren and Williams! Monza has already offered some surprise qualifying in the past, but in this case it is not a question of dynamics and performance. With the approach of the last phase of the season, penalties for power unit changes have been applied, a tax to be paid that will be assessed in the future.
If the goal was to contain costs, it was realistically missed, but if you want to add unexpected events in the end-of-season strategies, the system got out of hand, since after qualifying the same teams had versions of the starting grid, and each convinced that he is absolutely right.
Nyck de Vries, Williams FW44
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Verstappen himself, placed fourth after qualifying, finally clarified: “If I understand correctly, I’ll start seventh”.
Beyond the complexity of a bizarre system, what increases curiosity is undoubtedly the order in which the cars will line up tomorrow on the grid. The front row Leclerc-Russell faithfully reflected the predictions of the eve, and even Lando Norris in third position was not a surprise result.
Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris: the two McLaren drivers will share the second row
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The rest of the top ten is predictable, with Ricciardo fourth, ahead of the Gasly-Alonso tandem and Nyck De Vries who will line up at the start of his first Grand Prix in eighth position, alongside Verstappen.
A completely new grid is combined with a track with one of the starts that has the highest risk rates of the season. The conformation of the first corner and the high speed with which you arrive at the braking point have often seen contacts, sometimes resolved without damage to the cars but in others decidedly with heavier budgets.
Everyone’s fear is that often it is not those who make the mistake who pay the heaviest price, but those who are in the wrong place at the wrong time, and this increases the worries of those who aim to win and will be forced to recover. locations.
Shuffling the cards can also have a charm, but if you get to the point where the starting grid seems to have emerged from an extraction, among other things not easy to interpret, perhaps it is appropriate to face everything in view of the next season. .
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