Italian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen in record-breaking 10th consecutive F1 win

As good arsenic winning the past 10 races, Max Verstappen has taken triumph successful 12 of the 14 grands prix truthful acold this season

Red Bull's Max Verstappen broke Ferrari's valiant situation to acceptable an all-time grounds for consecutive wins with triumph successful the Italian Grand Prix.

Sainz locked his brakes into the archetypal chicane and that allowed Verstappen to walk the Ferrari into the 2nd chicane astatine Monza.

Sainz, aft forcefully holding connected to 2nd spot from team-mate Charles Leclerc, was near to fend disconnected Verstappen's team-mate Sergio Perez for 2nd place.

After galore laps of defence, Sainz yet mislaid the presumption with 9 laps to spell and past acceptable astir warring hard again to support Leclerc down for the last podium place.

It was frantic astatine times arsenic Sainz hung connected with worn tyres, and yet the Spaniard pleaded to his squad to fto him "bring it home". Leclerc was told: "Race until the end, nary risk."

Sainz clung connected with immoderate hopeless precocious braking moves into the archetypal chicane, and yet the combat was settled astatine the commencement of the last lap.

Leclerc sold the dummy to Sainz astatine the archetypal chicane but the Spaniard moved to support and Leclerc had to fastener each his brakes and chopped the chicane to debar his partner. Leclerc crossed the enactment conscionable 0.1secs behind.

Mercedes' George Russell drove a dependable contention to instrumentality fifth, portion Lewis Hamilton impressed connected an inverted strategy, starting connected the hard tyre and switching to the medium, to walk the McLarens and Alex Albon's Williams to instrumentality sixth.

Hamilton earned a five-second punishment for colliding with McLaren's Oscar Piastri erstwhile passing him astatine the 2nd chicane but had capable of a borderline to support the place.

Albon clung connected up of McLaren's Lando Norris, portion Fernando Alonso had his astir anonymous contention of the play to instrumentality ninth successful the Aston Martin up of Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas.

Piastri had to pit to repair harm aft the Hamilton incidental and finished 12th down Liam Lawson's Alpha Tauri.

Max Verstappen had to hold until thigh 15 to walk Carlos Sainz's Ferrari for the lead

Ferrari enactment up a beardown combat against the all-conquering Red Bull squad astatine their location contention with by acold their astir competitory showing of the season.

Their anticipation was for Leclerc, starting third, to walk Verstappen into the archetypal country and acceptable up a one-two astatine the beforehand of the field, from which they mightiness beryllium capable to play strategy against Verstappen.

But Verstappen made a beardown start, and Sainz had to chop crossed rapidly to forestall the Dutchman claiming the wrong enactment for an onslaught astatine the archetypal corner.

The pb secured, Sainz was faced with a challenging opening stint trying to clasp Verstappen disconnected for arsenic agelong arsenic possible.

Verstappen tracked the Ferrari, seldom much than 0.5secs behind. He tried the extracurricular connected thigh six, lone to beryllium rebuffed, and complained to his squad astir the Ferrari's straight-line speed.

But yet his unit paid off. Sainz locked his close beforehand instrumentality connected the mode into the archetypal chicane astatine the commencement of thigh 15, and that allowed Verstappen to get a amended exit retired of the corner.

Verstappen drew alongside connected the flat-out tally done the Curva Grande and claimed the pb down the wrong of the Roggia chicane.

Once Verstappen was into the lead, the destiny of the contention triumph was nary longer successful uncertainty - if it ever truly had been - and the uncertainty was present implicit the remaining podium positions.

Verstappen present leads Perez successful the title by 145 points arsenic his 3rd drivers' rubric draws ever closer.

An aggravated combat betwixt the Ferraris

Charles Leclerc astir collided with Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz connected the last thigh arsenic they fought implicit 3rd place

Leclerc began to situation Sainz erstwhile Verstappen was past, but the Spaniard rebuffed his advances and they pitted connected consecutive laps connected laps 20 and 21, Sainz stopping first.

Again Sainz held disconnected Leclerc, who attacked consecutive aft rejoining from his pit stop, and some began to travel nether unit from Perez, who had taken 18 laps to walk George Russell's Mercedes for 4th successful the archetypal stint earlier mounting aft the Ferraris.

Sainz, Leclerc and Perez were moving enactment astern from thigh 23, consecutive aft the Mexican's pit stop.

Perez attacked Leclerc connected thigh 32, done the archetypal chicane and past tried astatine the 2nd chicane, lone to beryllium held off, but yet managed to walk Leclerc the pursuing thigh into the archetypal chicane.

Perez past acceptable aft Sainz, who defended hard for thigh aft thigh earlier the Red Bull yet managed to get adjacent capable to walk the Ferrari down the pit consecutive and into the archetypal chicane connected thigh 46.

That near Sainz susceptible to Leclerc and the Ferraris facing a combat for the honour of finishing connected the podium successful their location race.

Sainz's driving was progressively hopeless arsenic helium fought his fading tyres, but helium was ever connected the close broadside of fairness.

Leclerc passed his team-mate into the archetypal chicane the thigh aft Perez had got past, some cutting the corner, earlier Sainz past dragged backmost past his team-mate connected the tally to the 2nd chicane.

It was arsenic adjacent arsenic Leclerc was to get. He tried and tried again into the archetypal corner, and portion determination were possibly immoderate question marks astir a treble determination and moving nether braking arsenic Sainz defended connected the last lap, it was a titan's thrust to bent connected successful the end.

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