Charles Leclerc won at Monza; at Ferrari’s home

Charles Leclerc won at Monza, at Ferrari’s home, in a race where the strategy of the prancing horse allowed a thrilling triumph.

So, Charles Leclerc won at Monza and scored a stunning home victory for Ferrari in the Italian Grand Prix, beating the McLarens thanks to a perfectly executed strategy.

Charles Leclerc stopped once less than the fastest McLarens and was able to bring his set of tires to the finish line to the celebration of the Monza tifosi.

For his part, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris were chasing him in the closing laps, Leclerc’s Ferrari being greeted with increasingly loud roars from the crowd.

Ferrari’s first home win since Leclerc took victory here in 2019 has come this 2024.

“Mamma mia! Mamma mia!” said Leclerc over the radio after the win.

The two McLaren drivers, who had occupied the front row of the grid, had to settle for second and third place.

Curiously, McLaren did not enforce team orders to ask Piastri to move aside to let Norris pass, wasting seven valuable points in the title race on Max Verstappen, who could only finish sixth for Red Bull.

Lando Norris managed to claim the bonus point on offer for the fastest lap of the race, but given McLaren’s pace this weekend, this will feel like a wasted opportunity.

Charles Leclerc won at Monza: Checo Perez eighth

While Charles Leclerc won at Monza, Mexico’s Sergio Checo Perez could only finish eighth.

The Red Bulls have lost ground on their dominant lead of recent years.

Checo Perez finished eighth in the Italian Grand Prix, in a race in which the Mexican driver showed flashes of good driving.

Despite this, he hit a wall with the reality of his RB20 and ended up in the same place he started his day. Charles Leclerc’s victory at Monza and Ferrari’s at home was resounding.

The start became a war for the first starting places, but the only one who did not win, nor lost positions was Checo, who did not fight the position to Max Verstappen and only saw from a distance the battle in which George Russell lost four and fell seventh.

The Milton Keynes team sought with its two drivers to make a long first run but it was a failed strategy.

By lap 22 at Monza Checo was leading the race with the entry of Carlos Sainz and later Max, but knowing he would have to pit.

Mercedes’ superiority took Checo to ninth behind Kevin Magnussen and it was until lap 44 that Checo Perez managed to overtake Kevin, whom he overtook in the first corner and move away from the DRS range.

Checo closed an uneventful race, secured in eighth place, but showed that the RB20 is not ready to fight with the front runners and the dominance shown in two years seems to be coming to an end.

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