Andrea Stella: "Today's Italian Grand Prix was a close and competitive race that ultimately came down to car pace around Monza. We saw this reality in Qualifying, and then also with the added layer of there being no degradation advantage for the team in the first stint of the race, from there it was going to be challenging to achieve a victory.
"We also saw the values and principles we have in our team culture, with Oscar giving the position back to Lando before they were allowed to race again until the Chequered Flag.
"Overall, P2 and P3 is not a bad result at a circuit we knew wouldn't necessarily suit our car. We finish the final European double-header with more important and valuable points in both Championships. Thank you to the entire team trackside and back in Woking for their continued support and effort so far this season."
Laurent Mekies: "There is a special Team behind this win, doing all the hard work to enable us to have a fast car today and everyone at the track then executed it in an unbelievable way.
"My first thought is for everybody in Milton Keynes, it has been a difficult season for the Team so far and this win is something they have deserved for a while. It looked like McLaren would be running an advantage in pretty much every single race, but everyone has been amazing, to keep exploring and pushing the boundaries of this car and it is great today to be on the top step. There is a special Team behind this win, doing all the hard work to enable us to have a fast car today and everyone at the track then executed it in an unbelievable way. Max redefined what perfection is today and this weekend in general. It was a difficult first lap and he kept very cool and managed to do the overtaking on track and then to dominate the race. Monza is very specific in terms of layout and the Team have done an amazing job to get, fundamentally, the fastest car on track here, then combine that with Max's magic and the result is today's win. Yuki was unfortunate today; he was stuck in traffic and it was very difficult for him to get anything out of the race. Then he had damage to his floor after his contact with Liam, which cost him performance. We have more work to do to help Yuki with his race pace and we will be pushing to get him in the right place as we progress."
In the first few laps, there was an exciting battle between Charles and Oscar Piastri for third place, with the Monegasque passing the Australian after the start then both passing each other again. Charles kept the position until lap 5, thanks to his good straight line speed but eventually had to give best to Piastri.
Lewis moved up the order and was already sixth after 7 laps, behind George Russell, slowly making ground on him. When Russell pitted, Lewis inherited fifth place, but lost it again after his own stop.
The Medium tyres lasted much longer than expected so both Charles and Lewis delayed their pitstop, as did the top three runners. Charles pitted on lap 34 for Hard tyres and his pace was immediately good allowing him to post several fastest laps.
On lap 38, Lewis also pitted for Hards, retaking sixth place after a couple of laps. Charles and Lewis eventually had to settle for fourth and sixth places respectively at the chequered flag.
Fred Vasseur: Our target for today was to get Charles on the podium, but it was just out of reach. He had a strong race, with a good fight at the beginning but that meant he overworked the tyres a bit at this stage. In the end we were not so far behind the McLarens, just four seconds, while Max was flying at the front. Starting from the middle of the pack because of the penalty, Lewis had a very strong first stint and towards the end we tried to give him a tyre advantage to get ahead of Russell, but the degradation was too low. He had a very good race and I am very pleased for him. We are sorry we could not deliver a better result for our tifosi, who have been amazing all week long. Grazie mille for their unwavering support.
George Russell finished P5 and Kimi Antonelli P9 in today's Italian Grand Prix. Both drivers lined up on the third row of the grid on the Medium tyre, George P5 and Kimi P6. George maintained his position on the opening lap but Kimi unfortunately dropped to P10 having suffered from excess wheelspin off the line. Having threatened the Ferrari of Leclerc early, George dropped back to manage his tyres before boxing for the Hard compound on lap 27. Having cleared the Red Bull of Tsunoda on track for P9, Kimi then deployed his pace to overcut several cars ahead. He stopped on lap 28 and rejoined in a net P7, also on the Hard compound tyre. As others pitted, George and Kimi cycled through the field. Kimi was unable to hold off the Medium shod Williams of Alex Albon and dropped to P8. Kimi was adjudged to have forced Albon off track as part of the move and was handed a five-second time penalty. That dropped him to P9 behind Bortoleto in the final standings. For George, he ran a lonely second stint to come home in P5.
Toto Wolff, Team Principal & CEO: That was a tough day for us today. We didn't have the pace to challenge for the podium and that is frustrating. The weekend as a whole slipped away from us a little, despite it looking promising as we headed into Qualifying. We didn't perform as we needed to in order to fight for the top three and that is something we all need to improve on. There is never one reason that we can blame for that, so we will work hard in the days ahead of Baku to make sure we perform better in Azerbaijan.
We now have just eight races to go until the end of the season. We are in a fight with Ferrari and Red Bull for second in the Constructors' and will need to be at our best if we want to come out ahead of them. It will be a real dog fight given everyone's development focus is already on 2026 so it will all be about who can execute better than their competitors.
Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director: That was a frustrating Italian Grand Prix for us. George was able to put some pressure on Charles early on but, even with DRS, we just didn't have the straight-line speed to be able to pass. His race from there was about controlling the gap to the other Ferrari of Lewis behind. We were able to time our stop well to avoid losing position, but we had too much degradation on that stint to be able to challenge Charles ahead. Once that stop was out of the way it was an uneventful run for George to a P5 finish.
For Kimi, his race came undone when excessive wheelspin on the launch led to a slow start. He dropped to P10 and had to battle back from there. He deployed his pace on the Medium compound well to complete the overcut on several of the cars he was racing, but traffic in his second stint left him vulnerable to the Williams of Alex Albon who had started on Hard and ran long. He duly made the pass despite Kimi's best efforts, leaving him P8 at the flag. In defending from Albon, Kimi also picked up a time penalty that relegated him to P9 at the flag.
Mike Krack, Chief Trackside Officer: "It was a frustrating day for us with some reliability issues preventing us from battling for the points.
"Fernando did well in his first stint and was running strong in P7. He was then forced to retire his car with a suspension failure.
"Lance drove well and managed a long stint on the Hard tyres. Ultimately, we were hoping for a Safety Car which in the end never came. We then had another reliability issue with his pitstop, which dropped him down the order.
"We will regroup back at the AMRTC and look to bounce back in Baku."
Flavio Briatore: "It was not the best day or end result for us today in Monza, at a track we knew doesn't play to the strengths of our package. With the current car, this is what we have available to us and to both drivers for the remaining races, with the focus firmly on the development of the 2026 car. As racers, we know weekends like these are going to be difficult, but we are confident with the work going on behind the scenes that better days lie ahead for the team."
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team finished with Oliver Bearman 12th, and Esteban Ocon 15th, at the Italian Grand Prix, held Sunday at Autodromo Nazionale Monza.
Bearman took the start from P11 on Pirelli P Zero Yellow medium tires, preserving his place through the opening lap. Bearman pitted on lap 18 for White hard tires and was in the mix for the top 10 positions, until being involved in a collision with Williams' Carlos Sainz. Bearman regrouped, but was issued a 10-second time penalty for his role in the contact, and he classified P12.
Ocon started from P15 on hard tires and gained two positions on the opening lap, before being shuffled down to P14. Ocon ran a long first stint but was handed a five-second time penalty for forcing Lance Stroll off track into the second chicane. Ocon served the penalty during his sole pit stop, on lap 51 of 53, and fitted Red soft tires for the short blast to the checkered flag, where he took P15.
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team holds ninth position in the Constructors' Championship, on 44 points.
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal: "It's a shame that we didn't score points because we knew we were up against it in Monza, but considering that, I think we fought well today and the team worked well together. I'm not going to dwell on the penalties - we accept them, and move on - win or lose, we do it together. The positive thing is that knowing Monza is one of our weakest circuits, we still fought hard and I'm happy with how we operated as a team."
James Vowles, Team Principal: A great result from Alex for that P7 and some nice points against our competitors in what will be a very close-fought championship. We had a very fast racing car today and what that demonstrates is we've got to get qualifying right - we are not getting it nailed on and in such a tight grid it makes an enormous difference. Alex drove a faultless race on the Hard tyres, we played the team game with Carlos letting him through because he was quicker at that stage in the race and we hoped to drag Carlos along. Carlos didn't put a foot wrong - he drove with great pace in the race but the accident with Bearman cost him a points finish. Carlos will be frustrated but at moments like these we pull together and become better as a team. We'll come back fighting in Baku.
The Chimera trophy bearing the number one, designed by Italian artist Nico Vascellari for Pirelli and Pirelli HangarBicocca, ended up in the hands of Max Verstappen after the Italian Grand Prix.
This was the four times world champion's third win of the season, following on from those in Suzuka and Imola, as well as his third in this race, to add to those in 2022 and 2023, all with Red Bull Racing. It's the Dutchman's 66th career win while the Anglo-Austrian team is now on 125 wins, five of them here in Monza.
This race goes into the record books as the fastest ever Formula 1 Grand Prix. Verstappen's average speed was 250.706 km/h, beating the previous record set in Monza by Michael Schumacher in 2003 with an average speed of 247.586 km/h. In fact, the drivers who finished second to seventh today also got under the Ferrari driver's winning time.
Just as they did a year ago, the two McLaren drivers were on the podium, with Lando Norris second and Oscar Piastri third. The Englishman also set a new outright average speed record when he set the race fastest lap on lap 53 in 1'20"901, at a speed of 257.781 km/h.
As expected, the majority of drivers had opted to start the first stint on Medium tyres, while five, Stroll, Gasly, Ocon, Hadjar e Albon went with the Hard. Lawson was the only driver to start on Softs. The C5 made a further appearance in the closing stages when five drivers - Norris, Piastri, Stroll, Gasly and Ocon - fitted it for the final few laps, having extended the opening stint much further than expected. The longest stint of all came courtesy of Ocon who did 51 laps on the Hard, while Norris went furthest on the Medium completing 46 laps. Lawson did the most laps on the Soft (9).
Marco Tronchetti Provera, Pirelli Exwcutive Vice President: "It's great to be here in Monza for the Italian Grand Prix, a special event not only for Pirelli but also for Formula 1. A week ago in the Netherlands we reached the milestone of 500 Grands Prix in motor racing's blue riband category, the only tyre manufacturer to do so. Here in Monza, we wanted to celebrate the landmark with our partners in this amazing adventure: Formula 1 President and CEO Stefano Domenicali, FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem, along with all the drivers and team bosses. Pirelli was on track at Silverstone with its Stella Bianca tyre on 13 May 1950 when Nino Farina won the first World Championship Grand Prix and today it is the sport's sole supplier. Formula 1 is an amazing open-air laboratory for experimenting with and testing new technical solutions, as well as for improving research and development and manufacturing processes for our tyres.
"On this day of celebration, above all I want to thank everyone at Pirelli for their passionate commitment and the quality of their work over the years, as well as for everything they will do in the future, as we continue pushing forward with this partnership."
Mario Isola: "In this Grand Prix, all the excitement was condensed into the opening laps, with drivers overtaking and repassing each other with some thrilling moves. Then, once the situation stabilised, the race became very linear with all drivers trying to extend their first stints as much as possible, depending on which compounds they had chosen for the start. Unlike last year, there was practically no graining today and on this very smooth track surface, performance degradation was pretty much zero. This meant that all the drivers could more or less chose the moment to pit based on their track position, while others gambled going much longer than the window predicted based on how free practice had gone, in the hope of a possible Safety Car, having nothing left to lose.
"We saw some cases of blistering across the front axle, but not enough to have a significant impact on car performance. In terms of wear, it's clear that those drivers who went beyond the 40 lap mark on their first stint, came very close to or in some cases, even exceeded the wear limit, but without losing performance.
"All in all, evaluating tyre performance in this Grand Prix, I would say they were too good. It will be important for us to analyse the data very well to understand how to proceed with the development of compounds for next year. On this topic, it's worth noting that in less than 48 hours, we will be back on track in Monza for two days of testing of 2026 tyres, working with Red Bull Racing (Verstappen/Tsunoda and Aston Martin (Drugovich) on Tuesday and with Williams (Albon/Sainz) and Racing Bulls (Lawson/Hadjar) the following day."
