And it is good, if not one but — it was too boring outstanding Italian Grand Prix. Memorable moments were so small that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
However, even if the race was very interesting, with all due respect to the winners of the major newsmakers of the weekend were two veteran — Felipe Massa and Jenson Button.
The speaker for the Brazilian Williams at the end of this year and will leave the British team, and Formula 1 — he announced his retirement F1 pilot. What is now will be engaged Felipe, whether he will continue his racing career in a series — so far unknown.
Briton as though give way at the wheel of McLaren Stoffel Vandoorne, but first will be in the state of the team as the driver responsible for the development of the team and the car. And secondly, the McLaren has an option to return Jenson's back in the first team in 2018. This means that his retirement speech, the ex-champion of the world is not coming.
But transitions transitions, and in Italy the riders came, after all, not only for the sake of it — they had to bring their lost a lot of downforce cars on the legendary track.
Friday and Saturday workouts show — Mercedes again prepared for the best: the pilots of the German team were the best in all three sessions. The first workout was the fastest Nico Rosberg, and the other two excelled Lewis Hamilton.
Get updated powerplants Ferrari drivers firmly entrenched in second line — Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen three shared with each other the third and fourth place, with the German double is faster than the Finn.
But then — there was no stability. That turned out to be the third-level duo Red Bull drivers, the pair of the Williams, and in the first training session on the fifth and sixth places were Sergio Perez of Force India and Romain Grosjean of Haas.
Such training results made it possible to make a cautious conclusion that the struggle in the race for the top four places will lead the racers Mercedes and the Ferrari, but for the remaining positions in the top ten will compete representatives from Red Bull, Williams and Force India. Looking ahead to say — so in the end it happened!
The qualifying heats ended predictably — qualification of the results almost entirely reflect the situation in the current Formula 1.
The first two rows of the grid took the racers Mercedes and Ferrari — Lewis Hamilton took pole, next to it located his teammate Nico Rosberg. In turn, Sebastian Vettel left behind Kimi Raikkonen.
Valtteri Bottas showed the fifth result, ahead of the two Red Bull — it is rather a result of a drop-down. But motors TAG (read Renault), installed on the «red bull» machines, it is difficult to deal with the client even the Mercedes, which features Williams.
In vnutrikomandnye confrontation in the Red Bull Daniel Riccardo managed to get ahead of Max Verstappen — Australian took sixth and seventh place the Dutchman. Then — two Force India of Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg. Well, the tenth — and this is the main surprise — the qualification completed Haas driver Esteban Gutierrez.
Daniil Kvyat're not pleased with Russian fans — he has only 17 results. The Russian failed to break even in the second segment of training.
The race of the Formula 1 often breaks all the preliminary calculations and predictions — that is what happened in Monza.
Lewis Hamilton made a spin that cost him five lost items — from pole position once he fell back to sixth place. No luck and Max Ferstappenu — he has worked the system, which does not allow turning off the engine transmission reset to neutral. The engine is not stalled — this is a plus, lost four positions — it is a huge minus.
After the start-finish straight in Monza chicane is from right to left, it often occur various kinds of incidents. Unfortunately not without them this time.
In the first place, «pushed» Daniil Kvyat — his Toro Rosso received some damage. Jenson Button was pushed off the track — Sauber pilots tried — and five minutes «vacationer» slipped to last place. A little later the Swiss team driver Felipe Nasr was faced with Jolyon Palmer — both riders made it to the boxes, after a visit to have returned to the track, but not for long: both were forced to retire.
And on this interesting event for spectators actually finished! The next exciting moment they had to wait right up to the range of 47, when Daniel Riccardo ahead of Valtteri Bottas straight into the starting chicane.
Yet the rest of the race intrigue has been reduced to only one — whether Lewis Hamilton will be able to catch up with the two Ferrari, occupying second and third place. And catch up and overtake them if he can get to the leading in the race of his comrade-in-arms of Nico Rosberg.
But even in this particular plot was not. Strategists Ferrari chose its home race cautious tactics with two pit stops, and their colleagues at Mercedes took a chance and offered their version of the pilots with one pit stop. As a result, stops twice Sebastian Vettel and Kimi did not have chances to keep Lewis Hamilton behind him — so they could not do it.
In turn, the British had no chance to overtake Nico Rosberg — a German from the beginning went into the lead, and Lewis had to fight with rivals, losing this precious seconds.
At the finish of the winner Rosberg became second separated Hamilton 15 seconds. Vettel finished third at 21 seconds from Nico. Next — Raikkonen, Riccardo, Bottas, Verstappen, Perez, Massa and Hulkenberg.
And what Daniil Kvyat? He came down, did not reach up to the fortieth round — made themselves felt the effects of a collision at the start. But before vanishing ufimets remembered only that speeding in the pit lane — does not go well, his season, even cry.
