2020 04 – 06 September

ust a few days after the at fast and flowing AUTODROMO NAZIONALE JSpa-Francorchamps, Round Eight of the 2020 FIA Length of lap: World Championship takes teams and drivers the calendar’s true 5.793km home of high- racing, the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, for Lap record: 1:21.046 (, the Italian Grand Prix. , 2004) Few places on the regualr calendar place so great an emphasis on Start line/finish line offset: 0.309km pure pace and the historic circuit regularly sees some of the highest Total number of race laps: speeds reached all season as drivers attack its long straights and fast 53 corners such as Ascari and Parabolica. Total race distance: Despite the focus on outright velocity, cornering performance 306.720km through the few high speed arcs remains key to good lap time as Pitlane speed limits: 80km/h in practice, qualifying, and does traction out of the circuit’s three chicanes. the race With cars set-up with lower downforce configurations to avoid drag on the straights, good mechanical grip becomes paramount. And in CIRCUIT NOTES that regard tyre manufacturer is this weekend providing tyres ► The track has been resurfaced from the middle of its range. The C2 compound will feature as the from the Exit of Turn 2 to the Exit white-banded hard tyres, with the C3 as the medium tyres and C4 of Turn 4. featuring as the red soft tyre. ► Timing loops have been installed ’s dominant victory in last weekend, his fifth at Parabolica. win from seven races so far, means the defending champion arrives DRS ZONES at F1’s ‘Temple of Speed’ with 157 Drivers’ Championship points, a ► There will be two DRS zones in commanding 47 ahead of closest rival . Third place . The detection point for the at Spa-Francorchamps keeps the Dutch driver three points clear of first zone will be 95m before Turn , while sixth place in Belgium has elevated 7, with the activation point 170m after Turn 7. The second detection to fourth place ahead of last year’s Italian Grand Prix winner Charles point will be 20m before Turn 11, Leclerc. with the activation point 115m In the Constructors’ Championship Mercedes are also well ahead after the finish line. of the pack. The Silver Arrows come to Monza with 264 points, with second on 158. The midfield battle, though, is growing ever tighter. Just nine points currently separate third-placed McLaren from sixth-placed Renault, for whom fourth and fith in Belgium represents the team’s best result of the season so far. FAST FACTS

► This is the 71st FIA Formula One World 39 championship points across 10 top- ► Three drivers on the current grid have Championship Italian Grand Prix and the 10 finishes the Swiss team in his rookie fastest laps at this race. Hamilton has 70th to be held at Monza. The only other season. He moved to Ferrari for 2019 and six to his name, in 2011, from 2013-’15 circuit to hold the race is , which since then has added another 309 points and in 2018 and 2019. Kimi Räikkönen hosted the event in 1980. to his tally, as well as two race wins and 12 went fastest in 2005, 2006 and 2008 podiums. His 2019 Italian GP win remains and , who took his 14th ► and Lewis Hamilton his most recent. fastest lap last weekend in Belgium, share the record for the most Italian went quickest over one lap in the race Grand Prix victories at Monza, with five ► Ferrari are the most successful team here in 2017. each. Schumacher’s wins were all scored at this event, with 19 FIA Formula with Ferrari, in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003 One World Championship victories. ► This season’s only rookie, , and 2006, while Hamilton won with McLaren are second with 10, followed by has plenty of experience at Monza. He McLaren in 2012 and with Mercedes in Mercedes with seven. All of Ferrari’s wins raced here in a variety of junior series, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. have been scored at Monza. including the FIA Formula 3 European Championship, Formula Renault 3.5, ► There are two other Italian Grand Prix ► Hamilton also holds the record for most GP2 and FIA Formula 2. As well as taking winners on the current grid – both Italian Grand Prix pole positions, with six. second place here in Italian F3 in 2012, of whom will be racing for Ferrari this Two were scored with McLaren (2009 he finished in P3 in the 2017 Formula 2 weekend. claimed his and 2012) while the other four (2014-’17) Feature Race. This weekend will be his maiden Formula 1 victory here in 2008 have been achieved with Mercedes. first experience of Monza in driving for Toro Rosso and then scored an F1 car. two wins in Monza with Red Bull Racing, ► Racing Point’s made his first in 2011 and 2013. scored and to date only front-row start in 2017 ► Finally, Hamilton has a chance this the second F1 win of his career here last at Monza. The Canadian driver finished weekend claim another Monza record, year with Ferrari. fourth for Williams in a heavily rain- that of podium finishes. He currently affected qualifying session but due to shares the benchmark of eight with ► Sunday will mark Leclerc’s 50th Grand PU-related grid penalties for Red Bull’s Michael Schumacher. In addition to his Prix start. The Monegasque made his Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo, five wins here, Hamilton has finished Formula 1 debut with Sauber at the Stroll started from P2. He finished the second on two occasions (2007 and 2018 . He scored race in P7. 2016) and last year finished third. RACE STEWARDS BIOGRAPHIES

GARRY CONNELLY CHAIRMAN, AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MOTOR SPORT SAFETY; F1 STEWARD; FIA WORLD MOTOR SPORT COUNCIL MEMBER, FIA SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER Garry Connelly’s motor sport career began in the late 1960s. Connelly was instrumental in bringing the World Rally Championship to in 1988 and served as Chairman of the Organising Committee, Board member and Clerk of Course of Rally Australia until December 2002. He has been an FIA Steward and FIA Observer since 1989, covering the FIA’s World Rally Championship, World Touring Car Championship and Formula One Championship. He is Chairman of the Australian Institute of Motor Sport Safety and director of the Australian Road Safety Foundation. He is a member of the FIA World Motor Sport Council, a member of the FIA Scientific Advisory Committee and FIA Environmental Delegate.

MATHIEU REMMERIE GRADUATE OF THE GLOBAL PATHWAY FOR FIA STEWARDS PROGRAMME, F2 & F3 STEWARD, STEWARD, MEMBER OF THE RACB BELGIAN NATIONAL SPORT & APPEAL COURT. Mathieu Remmerie began his professional career as the Sporting and Administration Manager at the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium. He represented the Belgian ASN in several FIA sporting commissions and has been a National Steward in Belgium since 2014. His international experience began shortly after this, officiating in Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula E. He is a alumnus of the new Global Pathway for FIA Stewards, one of the first members of the programme to graduate through to Formula One.

TOM KRISTENSEN NINE TIMES LE MANS WINNER, GERMAN F3 AND JAPANESE F3 CHAMPION (1991 AND 1993) ALMS CHAMPION (2001), WEC CHAMPION (2013) PRESIDENT OF THE FIA DRIVERS’ COMMISSION, FIA WORLD MOTOR SPORT COUNCIL MEMBER Denmark’s Tom Kristensen is the most successful driver in the history of the Le Mans 24- Hour race having won the endurance event nine times before retiring from competition in November 2014. – Add a part on the as he won it 6 times (record). Kristensen’s oustanding career saw him race in single-seaters, touring cars as well as testing in Formula One. However, it is for his achievements in sportscars that he is correctly most lauded. His first Le Mans win came in 1997, driving for the Joest Racing team. After two years competing with BMW, he rejoined Joest, now racing as Sport Team Joest, in 2000, winning three Le Mans 24-Hours in succession with the team. He won again with Bentley in 2003 before returning to the wheel of Audi machines to win in 2004-’05, 2008 and 2013. In 2013 he also won the FIA World Endurance Championship title.

NATIONAL STEWARD PAOLO LONGONI MEMBER OF THE ITALIAN MOTOR SPORT COMMISSION (CSAI); THE AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF Paolo Longoni is a steward with nearly 30 years’ experience. Longoni began his stewards’ training at his home circuit – Monza – in 1990 and was immediately bitten by the bug of motorsport. While his early stewarding experience was based largely at Monza, since 2006 Longoni has officiated at rounds of the Porsche Supercup, Ferrari Challenge Championship, FIA Historic Championship, ETCC, WTCC and Le Mans Series races, as well as Formula One events. He is a regular national steward at his home grand prix. 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship* DRIVERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS ANNIV. TH BELGIUM ITALY TUSCANY RUSSIA EIFEL PORTUGAL E.-ROMAGNA BAHRAIN SAKHIR DHABI ABU STYRIA BRITAIN GREAT 70 POINTS

12 25 26 25 19 25 25 1 L. HAMILTON 157 4 1 F 1 1 F 2 1 1 15 18 19 25 18 15 2 M. VERSTAPPEN 110 NC 3 2 F 2 1 2 3 25 18 15 15 16 18 3 V. BOTTAS 107 1 2 3 11 3 F 3 2 12 10 4 10 4 8 4 A. ALBON 48 13 4 5 8 5 8 6 18 15 12 5 C. LECLERC 45 2 NC 11 3 4 NC 14 16 10 10 2 1 6 6 L. NORRIS 45 F 3 5 13 5 9 10 7 6 12 2 8 12 2 7 L. STROLL 42 NC 7 4 9 6 4 9 8 D. RICCIARDO 4 4 12 13 33 NC 8 8 4 14 11 F 4 8 8 6 10 1 9 S. PÉREZ 33 6 6 7 – – 5 10 4 8 4 10 10 E. OCON 26 8 NC 14 6 8 13 5 10 3 2 8 11 C. SAINZ 23 5 F 9 9 13 13 6 DNS 6 6 2 4 12 P. GASLY 18 7 15 NC 7 11 9 8 1 8 1 6 13 S. VETTEL 16 10 NC 6 10 12 7 13 6 14 N. HÜLKENBERG 6 DNS 7 – – 2 15 A. GIOVINAZZI 2 9 14 17 14 17 16 NC 1 1 16 D. KVYAT 2 12 10 12 NC 10 12 11 1 17 K. MAGNUSSEN 1 NC 12 10 NC NC 15 17

18 K. RÄIKKÖNEN 0 NC 11 15 17 15 14 12 19 N. LATIFI 0 11 17 19 15 19 18 16 20 G. RUSSELL 0 NC 16 18 12 18 17 NC 21 R. GROSJEAN 0 NC 13 16 16 16 19 15

* AS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED

F = POINT FOR FASTEST LAP 2020 FIA Formula One World Championship ** CONSTRUCTORS’ CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS ANNIV. TH SPAIN BELGIUM ITALY TUSCANY RUSSIA EIFEL PORTUGAL E.-ROMAGNA TURKEY BAHRAIN SAKHIR DHABI ABU AUSTRA STYRIA HUNGARY BRITAIN GREAT 70 POINTS

37 43 41 25 34 41 43 1 MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS MOTORSPORT 1 1 F 1 1 F 2 1 1 264 4 2 3 11 3 F 3 2

ASTON MARTIN 27 28 23 35 22 23 2 RED BULL RACING 13 3 2 F 2 1 2 3 158 NC 4 5 8 5 8 6 26 13 2 10 2 9 6 3 MCLAREN F1 TEAM F 3 5 9 5 9 6 7 68 5 F 9 13 13 13 10 NC

BWT RACING POINT 8 -1 18 2 14 22 3 4 F1 TEAM 6 6 4 9 6 4 9 66* NC 7 7 DNS 7 5 10 19 8 16 12 6 5 2 NC 6 3 4 7 13 61 10 NC 11 10 12 NC 14

RENAULT DP WORLD 4 4 4 20 4 23 6 F1 TEAM 8 8 8 4 8 11 F 4 59 NC NC 14 6 14 13 5

SCUDERIA ALPHATAURI 6 1 6 1 2 4 7 7 10 12 7 10 9 8 20 12 15 NC NC 11 12 11

ALFA ROMEO 2 8 RACING ORLEN 9 11 15 14 15 14 12 2 NC 14 17 17 17 16 NC 1 HAAS F1 TEAM 9 NC 12 10 16 16 15 15 1 NC 13 16 NC NC 19 17

WILLIAMS RACING 10 11 17 18 12 18 17 16 0 NC 17 19 15 19 18 NC

* FOLLOWING THE PENALTY OF 15 CONSTRUCTORS’ CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS IMPOSED BY SPECIAL PANEL OF STEWARDS (DECISION DOCUMENT 4, 7). SUBJECT TO APPEALS LODGED WITH ICA.

** AS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED

F = POINT FOR FASTEST LAP FORMULA 1 TIMETABLE & FIA MEDIA SCHEDULE

THURSDAY Press conference 1400-1715

FRIDAY Practice session 1 1100-1230 Press conference 1300-1400 Practice session 2 1500-1630

SATURDAY Practice session 3 1200-1300 Qualifying 1500-1600

SUNDAY Race 1510-1710

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