Grand Prix Italia

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Grand Prix Italia (dalam bahasa Italia: Gran Premio d'Italia) merupakan salah satu balapan rutin seri kejuaraan dunia Formula Satu, yang sekaligus juga merupakan salah satu balapan yang paling tua di dalam sejarah balap F1 modern (selain Grand Prix Inggris). Balapan Grand Prix Italia dilaksanakan di Autodromo Nazionale di Monza sejak musim 1950. Sebelumnya, pada era sebelum F1, balapan Grand Prix Italia dilaksanakan di Brescia pada tahun 1921.

Grand Prix Italia

Autodromo Nazionale di Monza
Informasi lomba
Jumlah gelaran	93
Pertama digelar	1921
Terbanyak menang (pembalap)	Michael Schumacher Lewis Hamilton (5)
Terbanyak menang (konstruktor)	Ferrari (20)
Panjang sirkuit	5.793 km (3.600 mi)
Jarak tempuh	306.720 km (190.596 mi)
Lap	53
Balapan terakhir (2023)
Pole position
Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 1:20.294
Podium
1. M. Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT 1:13:41.143 2. S. Pérez Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT +6.064 3. C. Sainz Jr. Ferrari +11.193
Lap tercepat
Oscar Piastri McLaren-Mercedes 1:25.072

Suasana di Grand Prix Italia pada tahun 2010.

Tim Ferrari merupakan tim yang paling sukses di dalam sejarah Grand Prix Italia sampai dengan saat ini. Untuk hal pembalap, Michael Schumacher dan Lewis Hamilton merupakan pengoleksi kemenangan terbanyak dengan lima kali kemenangan di Grand Prix Italia. Pembalap tuan rumah yang sukses di Grand Prix Italia adalah Tazio Nuvolari dan Alberto Ascari, yang mengoleksi tiga kemenangan.

Grand Prix Italia di Monza sempat dipindahkan ke Sirkuit Imola pada tahun 1980, ketika pada saat itu Monza sedang direnovasi.

Grand Prix Italia diperhitungkan ke dalam Kejuaraan Pabrikan Dunia dari tahun 1925 hingga 1928, dan menuju Kejuaraan Eropa dari tahun 1931 hingga 1932, dan dari tahun 1935 hingga 1938. Grand Prix ini juga disebut sebagai Grand Prix Eropa sebanyak tujuh kali antara tahun 1923 dan 1967, ketika gelar ini merupakan sebuah gelar kehormatan yang diberikan setiap tahun kepada satu balapan Grand Prix di benua Eropa. Empat edisi sebelum Kejuaraan Dunia diadakan di empat tempat yang lain selain Monza: Montichiari (1921), Livorno (1937), Milan (1947), dan Turin (1948).

Ajang tersebut dijadwalkan berlangsung di Sirkuit Monza setidaknya hingga tahun 2025.

Sejarah

Awal mula

Grand Prix Italia pertama berlangsung pada tanggal 4 September 1921 di sebuah sirkuit sepanjang 10,7 mil (17,3 km) dekat Montichiari. Namun, perlombaan ini lebih erat kaitannya dengan lintasan di Monza, sebuah fasilitas balapan di luar kota utara Milan, kota terbesar kedua di negara Italia di wilayah metropolitan terbesar, perekonomiannya ibu kota dan rumah Alfa Romeo. Sirkuit ini secara khusus terletak di kota pinggiran kota dengan nama yang sama, yang dibangun pada tahun 1922 tepat pada saat balapan pada tahun itu, dan telah menjadi lokasi sebagian besar balapan selama bertahun-tahun. Monza dibangun di Parco di Monza, sebuah taman kota umum dengan sebagian besar kawasan hutan, di mana Royal Villa of Monza yang terkenal juga berada.

Autodromo Nazionale di Monza

Informasi lebih lanjut: Autodromo Nazionale di Monza

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Autodromo Nazionale di Monza selesai dibangun pada tahun 1922 dan merupakan autodrome permanen yang ketiga di dunia pada saat itu; Brooklands di negara Inggris dan Indianapolis di negara Amerika Serikat adalah dua sirkuit yang lainnya. Pionir balapan bermotor Eropa, yaitu Vincenzo Lancia dan Felice Nazzaro, meletakkan dua batu bata terakhir di Monza. Sirkuit ini memiliki panjang 10 km (6,25 mil), dengan bagian datar dan sirkuit jalan raya digabungkan menjadi satu. Sirkuit itu cepat, dan selalu memberikan kegembiraan. Balapan pada musim 1923 termasuk salah satu Harry A. Miller yang jarang tampil di benua Eropa dengan kursi tunggalnya "American Miller 122" yang dikemudikan oleh ketenaran Louis Zborowski Count dari Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Zborowski terbunuh pada Grand Prix tahun berikutnya di Monza dengan mengendarai mobil Mercedes.

Start balapan GP 1931.

Balapan pada musim 1928 adalah tragedi yang pertama dari sekian banyak tragedi yang menimpa venue ini. Pembalap asal Italia, yaitu Emilio Materassi, dengan tim Talbot dan Giulio Foresti dengan tim Bugatti sedang bertarung di sirkuit cepat. Pada saat mereka keluar dari tepian menuju ke arah sisi kiri pit lurus dengan kecepatan 125mph (200km/jam), salah satu roda depan mobil Talbot yang disalip oleh Materassi menyentuh salah satu roda belakang mobil Bugatti. Materassi kehilangan kendali atas mobilnya, berbelok ke kiri, melewati selokan selebar 15 kaki dan sedalam 10 kaki dan menabrak tribun yang tidak terlindungi di seberang pit, menewaskan dirinya sendiri dan 27 penonton, serta melukai 26 lainnya. Itu adalah tragedi dalam sejarah balapan dan tetap demikian sampai Le Mans 24 Jam 1955. Grand Prix Italia mengalami jeda selama tiga tahun (tetapi alternatif non-kejuaraan Grand Prix Monza diadakan pada tahun 1929 dan 1930) hingga balapan pada musim 1931, yang diadakan pada akhir bulan Mei, alih-alih tanggal tradisional pada awal bulan September, dan berhasil dimenangkan oleh Giuseppe Campari dan Tazio Nuvolari, berbagi mobil Alfa Romeo. Perlombaan pada tahun 1931 merupakan sebuah perlombaan ketahanan; butuh sepuluh jam untuk menyelesaikannya. Nuvolari yang hebat berhasil menang lagi dalam balapan pada musim 1932 yang dipersingkat, kali ini diadakan pada awal bulan Juni.

The black day of 1933

Poster 1933.

Pada Grand Prix Italia 1933, karena balapan kali ini diadakan pada jangka waktu tradisional yaitu awal bulan September, bencana kembali terjadi. Tiga pembalap teratas tewas selama berlangsungnya Grand Prix Monza, balapan Formula Libre yang diadakan selama tiga babak dan final pada sore hari tanggal 10 September, setelah Grand Prix Italia sendiri diadakan pada pagi hari, yang kemudian dikenal sebagai "Black Day of Monza". Selama heat kedua, dilaporkan ada sepetak minyak di tepi selatan yang berasal dari Duesenberg, yang dikemudikan oleh Count Carlo Felice Trossi, dan Giuseppe Campari dengan mobil Alfa Romeo yang dimasuki oleh Ferrari dan anak didiknya, yaitu Baconin Borzacchini dengan mobil Maserati sudah bertarung dengan sengit; dan Borzacchini serta Campari melewati tepian selatan pada putaran pertama, roda demi roda. Borzacchini melewati jalan yang berminyak, kehilangan kendali, berputar dengan liar, dan mobil Maserati yang dikemudikan olehnya kemudian terbalik dan terbalik dengan keras beberapa kali, dan pada saat mobil yang rusak itu berhenti, Borzacchini terjepit di bawahnya dan terlindas oleh mobilnya, belum sempat disingkirkan. Dan ketika mobil Maserati milik Borzacchini terjatuh di sepanjang lintasan, Campari membelok untuk menghindarinya, dan dengan melakukan ini, mobilnya naik dan terbang keluar dari tepian dan menabrak pepohonan yang terletak tepat di sebelah lintasan. Campari mematahkan lehernya dan terbunuh seketika, dan Borzacchini meninggal dunia pada hari itu juga di rumah sakit Monza.

Sebelum final, ada pertemuan pembalap untuk membahas tambalan oli, dan diputuskan untuk membersihkannya. Pada putaran kedelapan, bangsawan Polandia Count Stanislas Czaykowski berada di tepi selatan ketika mesin mobil Bugatti miliknya meledak, dan saluran bahan bakar kemudian putus. Bahan bakar dari tangki Bugatti terbakar setelah menyentuh bagian depan mobil Bugatti yang sangat panas tempat mesin dan girboks berada dan bahan bakar yang terbakar tersebut disemprotkan ke Czaykowski. Karena dibutakan oleh asap dan api yang menimpanya, dia naik dan terbang keluar dari tepian sungai – di tempat yang sama di mana Campari dan Borzacchini mengalami kecelakaan. Pembalap asal Polandia itu, yang tidak mampu memadamkan api di tubuhnya yang berasal dari bahan bakar mobil Bugatti miliknya yang rusak, kemudian tewas terbakar. Pembalap asal Prancis, yaitu Marcel Lehoux, dengan mobil Bugatti dinyatakan sebagai pemenang acara balapan singkat tersebut.

Enzo Ferrari, yang pernah dekat dengan Campari dan Borzacchini; yang pertama memutuskan untuk membelot dari tim Ferrari ke Maserati, menjadi marah karena tragedi ini. Pada saat ini, sejarawan balap menyimpulkan bahwa peristiwa balapan ini menandai titik balik, terutama bagi Enzo Ferrari. Itu adalah akhir dari era balapan yang menyenangkan dan awal dari era baru yang lebih keras. Keamanan pada masa itu sama sekali tidak ada. Kondisi sirkuit hampir sama dengan jalan kota dan pedesaan pada umumnya, hanya saja permukaannya tidak terbuat dari tanah dan/atau aspal, melainkan dari aspal, beton dan/atau batu bata. Penonton sering kali berdiri sangat dekat atau bahkan di samping trek, dan mereka tidak memiliki perlindungan apa pun selain akal sehat. Hal yang sangat tragis tentang kematian Campari yang berusia 41 tahun adalah dia mengumumkan pengunduran dirinya di Grand Prix Prancis dua bulan sebelumnya, untuk fokus pada prestasi menyanyi opera.

Sirkuit Florio dan lokasi yang lainnya

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.

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).

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.

The 2023 Italian Grand Prix set the record for the duration of the shortest race, not counting prematurly ended races, running for 1:13:41.143, breaking the previous record belonging to the 2003 Italian Grand Prix, which ran for 1:14:19.838.

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