F1_Italian_GP

1950: during the last race of the championship, Farina triumphed with the Alfa 158, a car that literally dominated the world championship by winning all the races in which it competed.

1951: the fight for victory was between Ascari and Fangio; the latter was then slowed down by ignition problems, allowing the Italian to win with a lead of almost one minute over Gonzalez.

1952: this was the sixth victory of the year for Ascari, who will also win in Argentina in 1953, putting together a record series equalled only in 2004 by Michael Schumacher (Europe-Hungary).

1953: the battle with slipstreams and overtakings was settled only at the last bend: Ascari spun around and Farina drove into the grassy area to avoid hitting him; behind them came Marimon, who ran over Ascari. Fangio avoided all the hubbub and took home the win.

1954: Ascari, Moss and Fangio succeeded in leading the race, but in the end it will be Fangio to cross the finish line first after Ascari and Moss are plagued with mechanical problems.

1955: Mercedes announced its withdrawal from the races and ended its adventure in great style with a double win by Fangio and Taruffi on the new circuit equipped with banked curves.

1956: it is not Moss’ victory to go down into history, but rather Peter Collins’ decision to turn over his car to Fangio, thus giving up a victory in the world championship, which the Argentine took home.

1957: The banked curves were left behind and since the beginning of the race a battle was engaged with the Vanwalls and the Maseratis repeatedly overtaking each other. The high pace imposed by this battle left many victims on the ground: Moss took advantage of this by winning in front of Fangio, the four-time world champion.

1958: Phil Hill managed to keep up a fast pace, but the tyres on his car paid a high price. Hawthorn tried to take advantage of this, but he also had clutch problems: Brooks won in the end, also thanks to his excellent management of the tyres.

1959: Moss beat the Ferraris with his Cooper thanks to tactics: the English pilot, unlike the Red Ferraris, did not make a pit-stop to change tyres halfway through the race, so they won easily.

1960: the high-ring speed made its return and as a result of this the English teams boycotted the race. Ferrari took home a triple victory with Phil Hill, Ginther and Mairesse.

1961: during the first phases of the race, Von Trips and fourteen spectators lost their lives due to a terrible accident; the race continued and was won by Phil Hill on a day to forget.

1962: Hill and Ginther took home a double win with their BRM P57. Their only possible rivals, Clark and Surtees, were forced out of the race due to mechanical problems.

1963: Clark orchestrated the slipstream strategy as best as possible, with his opponents leaving the race one right after the other due to mechanical breakdowns. With twenty laps left in the race, Jim had a one-lap advantage over his pursuers, which he handled with no problems.

1964: Surtees and Gurney stayed glued to one another for 60 laps, until the American started to have ignition problems, leaving Surtees to win the GP with a huge lead over his opponents.

1965: the traditional fight through incredible slipstreams featured champions the like of Stewart, Hill and Clark. When Clark left the race for problems with the fuel pump, it seemed to be all “downhill” for Hill, but he made a mistake at the parabolica during the second-to-last lap, giving Jackie Stewart his first career victory.

1966: this year marked the introduction of the 3000 cm³ engines, and the V12 Ferrari set the law in the temple of speed, with a double win by Scarfiotti and Parkes.

1967: no one could get even close to Clark and Hill on their Lotus 49, but a flat tyre stopped Clark and forced him to make up for this, while Hill was out during the 58^th lap due to a broken engine. In the end, Clark incredibly took over the lead again, but right at the last lap the engine could not draw the remaining litres of petrol. Brabham and Surtees fought it out in the last sprint, with Surtees winning on his new Honda single-seater.

1968: As it often happens at the Monza racetrack, the battle of overtaking one another is decided by mechanical breakdowns. This time Hulme was immune to these problems, as he watched McLaren, Stewart and Siffert abandoning the race one after the other.

1969: The last lap featured three race leaders: Stewart, Rindt and Beltoise. The parabolica decided it and Stewart won at the final sprint.

1970: The race lost its meaning after Rindt dies following an accident which occurred during the trials. Regazzoni wins over a field of starters in shock for the loss of the pilot who will be the 1970 world champion.

1971: Five single-seaters tried to win the race at the final sprint. Gethin won the fastest GP in history, a record that will last until 2003.

1972: The Ferraris driven by Regazzoni and Ickx took over the operations, but Clay was unlucky enough to bump into Pace’s car, who had just spun, thus damaging a suspension. Ickx had to fight it out with Fittipaldi, but a short-circuit forced him to quit the race with just a few laps to go. Emerson won and also conquered the world championship.

1973: Peterson won the race in front of teammate Fittipaldi, but the attention was all focused on Stewart, who managed to move up to the fourth position after ending up in 19^th place due to a flat tyre.

1974: Lauda and Regazzoni were uncatchable on their Ferrari 312B3, and they were soon well ahead of the rest. They were both forced to retire halfway through the competition, though, leaving Peterson in the lead, closely followed by Fittipaldi. Despite the Brazilian’s efforts, the Lotus colour-bearer managed to win.

1975: The Ferraris were unbeatable on the home track: Regazzoni won the race. In the end Lauda, who had already won the world championship, left second place to Fittipaldi.

1976: Only 6 weeks after the Nurburgring fire, Niki Lauda was once again behind the wheel of his Ferrari in an attempt to win the world championship. He finished fourth against all previsions, behind Peterson, Regazzoni and Laffite.

1977: Andretti needed only 10 laps to “measure” Scheckter, overtake him and win the race undisturbed, especially after the South-African was forced to quit the race.

1978: A major accident at the first chicane resulted in Ronnie Peterson being injured. He will die a few days later at the hospital. The race, which was restarted at six in the evening, was won by Lauda.

1979: After Arnaux’s Renault abandoned the race, it was a cakewalk for the Ferrari 312T4s of Scheckter and of Villeneuve, and Ferrari celebrated the world championship with two races left to go.

1980: The competition was held in Imola. Piquet won after taking the lead of the race during the fourth lap to never relinquish it until the end. This GP is remembered especially for the accident which occurred to Villeneuve, as he destroyed his single-seater by slamming into the barriers.

1981: After his teammate Arnoux abandoned the race, Prost easily won the GP, during which Watson had a bad accident, with his single-seater splitting in two and the engine ending up in the middle of the racetrack.

1982: Arnoux made up for the previous year’s disappointing performance by winning the race in front of the Ferraris of Tambay and Andretti, who had flown in from the U.S. at the last minute to race for Ferrari, hit by the loss of Villeneuve and by Pironi’s injury.

1983: Piquet mortgaged the world championship by easily winning before Arnoux and Cheever.

1984: After Piquet’s withdrawal, a leading trio was formed consisting of Tambay, Teo Fabi and Lauda. The first two abandoned the race almost at the same time during the 44^th lap, leaving Lauda to win.

1985: The race soon turned into a duel between Rosberg and Prost. Halfway through the race, the Finnish went into the pits for a tyre change, then quickly took over the lead again by overtaking Prost. Unfortunately, the engine on his Williams gave out with just six laps to go.

1986:  This was the nth chapter between the fratricidal fight between Mansell and Piquet which spiced up the racing season. This time the Brazilian had the better of it: he overtook his teammate during the 38^th lap and went on to win the race.

1987: Senna was in the lead with just a few laps left in the race, after having deceived his opponents by racing the entire race with no pit-stops, but unfortunately he ran off the track during the 43^rd lap while doubling up an opponent and this cost him the victory, which went to his fellow countryman Piquet.

1988: Jean-Louis Schlesser. This is not the winner’s name but rather the name of the doubled pilot who Senna slammed into, while he was easily in the lead and so very close to victory. The Brazilian’s withdrawal allowed Ferrari to take home a double victory in homage to its founder, who had deceased just a few days before.

1989: Once again Senna was a possible winner and once again he was forced to withdraw from the race. This time it was the engine to cause him problems with just 8 laps to go. Prost won the race, overtaking Berger in the end.

1990: After the race was forced to restart due to Warwick rolling over during the parabolica, Senna and Prost fought for the victory. The Brazilian's lead stayed pretty much the same, allowing him to make up for the disappointments of the previous years.

1991: Senna took the lead, followed by Patrese and Mansell. Patrese managed to overtake the Brazilian, but then spun his car around during the following lap, and was forced to leave the race due to problems with the transmission. It was Mansell’s turn, who attacked the Brazilian and overtook him during the 34^th lap. Ayrton went immediately to the pits for a tyre change, and little by little managed to catch up upon returning to the track, in any event finishing the race behind Nigel.

1992: Mansell took off in the beginning, then allowed Patrese to overtake him in order to let him win. They both experienced mechanical problems thanks to which Senna won the race.

1993: Something went wrong for Hill at the start: he bumped into Senna and was forced to catch up. After about 10 laps he was already in third place, and then second after Schumacher’s engine broke down. In the end, the English pilot came right up behind Prost, whose engine broke down during the 49^th lap, leaving his teammate to win the race.

1994: On the long straight stretches of the Monza track, the V12 certainly performed well, and the two Ferraris started the race from the first row. Alesi took off ahead of the rest, but when he stopped at the pit-stops, the transmission had no intention to start again. Berger took the lead, with the Williams right on his heels, but the pit-stop turned out to be fatal: both English cars overtook him and almost brought home a double victory, if it was not for Coulthard running out of gas during the last lap. Hill won the race with Berger in second place.

1995: Berger took the lead after Coulthard was forced to leave the race, followed by Schumacher and Hill. These last two quit the race while doubling up on Inoue, with Hill rear-ending Schumacher. At this point, the two Ferraris were in the lead when something incredible occurred: the video camera fitted on Alesi’s rear fin came off, hitting the suspensions on Berger's car, forcing him to retire immediately. There is more: Alesi is forced to withdraw from the race with eight laps left to go due to a broken bearing, leaving the win to an incredulous Herbert.

1996: After Hill's amazing spun-around during the sixth lap, Alesi seemed as he would win, until the pit-stops, after which Schumacher came out ahead. The German triumphed but not without causing his fans to hold their breath when he bumped into the tyre barriers placed at the first chicane at the end of the race.

1997: Coulthard won in front of Alesi, mocked once again during the pit-stops. Schumacher finished only in sixth place with his Ferrari, and a very upset President Montezemolo stated: “never again this way in our Monza”.

1998:The number 17 turned out to be unlucky for the McLarens, as during the 17^th lap Coulthard was forced to retire from the race in a cloud of smoke, a cloud in which his teammate Hakkinen drove into first, losing control of the race due to Schumacher's simultaneous attack. In the end, the Finn spun his car around at the Roggia with the brakes totally malfunctioning. Irvine took advantage of this, contributing to Ferrari’s double victory.

1999: The race was under Hakkinen's control until the thirtieth lap, when the Finn, easily at the lead, turned at the Goodyear variant and finished off the track, breaking out in tears as soon as he got out of his single-seater. Frentzen won the race with the Jordan.

2000: An accident at the Roggia unfortunately killed a track commissioner, hit by a runaway tyre spinning without control off the track. The competition marks the return of Schumacher in the fight for the title against Hakkinen, second behind Michael.

2001: Zanardi’s accident in F.CART the day before the race and the terrorist attacks in the U.S. which occurred just a few days before left the Schumacher brothers clearly upset, as they seemed to be almost uninterested in the race. Montoya then had only to concern himself with staying on top of Barrichello, with two pit-stops compared to the Colombian's one.

2002: After the Williams retired from the competition, halfway through the race the Ferraris had a lead of almost one minute over the closest pursuer, and so could take it easy. Michael Schumacher refrained from attacking Barrichello even when the latter returned to the track from a pit-stop, slowing down to let him win.

2003: The weeks preceding this GP were characterized by a violent debate whose topic were the tyres. The F.I.A. introduced a check on worn tyres since there was a well-founded suspicion that Michelin tyres “became larger” during their use, exceeding the regulatory limits concerning the tread. The French tyre manufacturer first threatened to boycott the GP, then quickly tried to remedy the situation. It was all for naught: Ferrari, and generally speaking the Bridgestone tyres, became more competitive and Schumacher easily won the race, actually running a risk only during the first lap, with a tyre-to-tyre due with Montoya from the Roggia to the first Lesmo bend.

2004: Due to a strategic error made by Barrichello (wrong tyres at the start of the race) and Schumacher spinning around at the Roggia, the Ferraris were half a minute behind the leaders of the race after just a few laps. In spite of this, they managed to win the race. The fast laps rankings revealed the Ferrari’s potential: the closest opponent was one and two tenths of a second behind.

2005: Raikkonen was the first to qualified but was forced to start the race from the eleventh position on the grid due to engine replacement. In spite of this, he had the speed to win, since he adopted a single pit-stop strategy. A flat tyre forced him to immediately leave the race after the first pit-stop. Montoya won in front of Alonso and Fisichella. Raikkonen finished in fourth place.

2006: During the qualification phase, Ferrari filed a claim against Alonso, guilty of having damaged Felipe Massa. The F.I.A decided to penalize the Spaniard, who on the grid stated that Formula 1 is no longer a sport. The Renault team clearly accused the F.I.A to want to favour Schumacher. At the first pit-stop, Michael took over Raikkonen and kept him behind for the rest of the GP, while Alonso raced well (from tenth to sixth place) and managed to climb up all the way to third place, before his engine broke down.

2007: The fight for the world championship was between the two McLaren pilots, Alonso and the rookie Hamilton, and Raikkonen’s Ferrari. The McLarens occupied the first row and kept their positions at the start, with Massa’s and Raikkonen’s Ferraris right behind. Massa broke a suspension after ten laps and Raikkonen, still suffering from an accident which took place during the free trials, could not do much to prevent a double victory for Woking's cars: Alonso won in front of Hamilton.

2008: The rain during the qualification trials and during the actual race messed up the values on the track, and Vettel won his first GP with the Red Bull in front of Kovalainen and Kubica.

2009: Barrichello and Button, with their Brawn cars, were not very brilliant during the qualification trials, but from the gasoline loads it could be inferred that they were planning on only one pit-stop, while their opponents were planning on two. This turned out to be the right decision, and allowed them to take home a double victory. The poleman Hamilton crashed during the last lap while he was in third place, leaving the lowest step on the podium to Raikkonen.

2010: During the first part of the race, Alonso stayed right behind Button’s McLaren, then the latter made a pit-stop: the difference between the two was less than one second. During the next lap, it was Alonso’s turn at the pit-stops: when the Spaniard accelerated towards the first variant, Button came up behind him, managed to place him side by side, but Fernando had the inner trajectory, kept the lead of the race and won in front of the Englishmen.

2011: Despite his pole position, Vettel was not even taken seriously due to his low peak speed, caused by a short gear set up. The German proved everyone wrong, taking off immediately and overtaking Alonso’s Ferrari after the safety car restarts. No one could keep up with him: Sebastian built up his lead during the first stint, and stayed in control during the next two.

2012: The race was won easily by Hamilton, while Button, second behind his team-mate, had to retire for a fuel pick-up problem. Alonso's and Perez hit the headlines with two amazing comebacks: third and second from tenth and twelfth in grid. A scary moment when Alonso was sent out in the grass at the Curva Grande by Vettel at full speed: the German was penalized for his behaviour.

2013: The race was dominated by Vettel, started from pole, who easily managed his gap over his rivals. Behind him Fernando Alonso, which in qualifying sent a controversial radio message to his crew as, according to the Spaniard, he was sent out on track at the wrong time.

2014: Hamilton was on pole, but had problems at the start, and was overtaken by Rosberg, Magnussen and Massa. Lewis was able to overtake quickly Kevin and Felipe and started to chase Rosberg. Nico was able to retain the lead until the only pitstop of the race, soon afterwards he made a mistake at the first chicane, had to take the escape road, allowing Hamilton to pass and going on to win the race;

2015: an easy win for Lewis Hamilton, who took off from pole as his rivals struggled. Kimi Raikkonen, on the front row with him, bogged down at the start, and dropped to last, while his team-mate Nico Rosberg was only fourth on the grid and stuck for the entire first stint behind slower cars. Vettel finished second for Ferrari: a late charge by Rosberg resulted in a mechanical failure for Nico;

2016: Hamilton recorded an easy pole with four tenths over his team-mate Nico Rosberg, but he faltered at the start. He was only sixth on the opening lap and, once past his rivals, he was too far down the road to try to close on Rosberg. Mercedes then opted for a safe strategy and recorded an easy double;

2017: Hamilton recorded pole and won easily, while behind him his team-mate Bottas, fourth on the grid and attacked by Kimi Raikkonen at the start, took only three laps to pass Stroll and Ocon and slot in second, completing the Mercedes double. Vettel was third for Ferrari.

2018: Ferrari locked out the front row, with the Mercedes cars behind, but during the opening lap Vettel rammed Hamilton, dropping out of contention. Raikkonen dueled with Hamilton on the first part of the race, but pitted too early for new tyres and in the second part was easily overtaken by Hamilton, which went on to win.