Sebastian Vettel of Toro Rosso wins Italian Grand Prix
The Italian F1 Grand Prix at Monza generated a new Formula One Grand prix Winner both from Driver and Team.
Sebastian Vettel won his first grand prix and the win was also the maiden victory for his team Toro Rosso. The German started from Pole Position and maintained the lead throughout, but it was not all plane sailing for Sebastain as the race had changing conditions which made the winner all the more amazing.
Britain’s Lewis Hamilton Finished 7th after moving up the field from his starting position of 15th. The win by Vettel, makes his the youngest ever F1 Grand Prix winner at 21, taking over from Fernando Alonso.
Ferrari’s Felipe Massa has reduced Lewis Hamiltons lead to just one point as he finished 6th.
The biggest gainer in the race was Robert Kubica of BMW he went from 11th on the grid to finish 3rd as his teams managed to carry out a one stop strategy.
The race started with the pace car as it was so wet but the tracked dried up making tactics improtant.
Hamilton did well ploughing through the field but Vettel also performance that went agains this age.
The Toro Rosso team is powered by Ferrari Enginer with a car provided by their parent Red Bull, they have had an excellent second half of the season.
Italian Grand Prix Monza Result
Result after 53-lap race:
1 S Vettel (Ger) Toro Rosso-Ferrari
2 H Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren-Mercedes
3 R Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber
4 F Alonso (Spa) Renault
5 N Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber
6 F Massa (Bra) Ferrari
7 L Hamilton (GB) McLaren-Mercedes
8 M Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault
Driver Championship Standings
1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes GB 78
2 Felipe Massa Ferrari Brz 77
3 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber Pol 64
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari Fin 57
5 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber Ger 53
6 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren Fin 51
7 Fernando Alonso Renault Spa 28
8 Jarno Trulli Toyota Ita 26
9 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari Ger 23
10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault Aus 20
11 Timo Glock Toyota Ger 15
12 Nelson Piquet Renault Brz 13
13 Rubens Barrichello Honda Brz 11
14 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota Ger 9
15 Kazuki Nakajima Williams Jpn 8
16 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault GB 6
17 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari Fra 4
18 Jenson Button Honda GB 3
19 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari Ita 0
19 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari Ger 0
19 Anthony Davidson* Super Aguri-Honda GB 0
19 Takuma Sato* Super Aguri-Honda Jpn 0
Constructor Standings
1 Ferrari 131
2 McLaren-Mercedes 119
2 BMW Sauber 107
4 Toyota 41
5 Renault 36
6 Red Bull-Renault 25
7 Williams-Toyota 17
8 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 17
9 Honda 14
10 Force India-Ferrari 0
11 Super Aguri-Honda* 0
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