Summary

  • Hamilton claims 90th GP victory after remarkable race

  • Bottas P2, Albon takes maiden podium for Red Bull in P3

  • Race red-flagged for second time after Stroll crashes out in the Racing Point

  • Race restarted after earlier red-flag period following huge crash on pit straight

  • Sainz (McLaren), Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo), Latifi (Williams), Magnussen (Haas) eliminated in crash as pack bunched after safety car pulled in

  • Verstappen (Red Bull) and Gasly (Alpha Tauri) out on lap one - safety car came in after six laps on track

  • Verstappen hit from behind after incident between Raikkonen, Gasly & Grosjean

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Live Reporting

Mike Henson

  1. Mercedes front-row party

    Andrew Benson
    BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer

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    As you were. After the unusual grid line-up in Monza a week ago, it’s back to Mercedes-Mercedes-Verstappen this weekend at marvellous Mugello. And, as it has been on all but two occasions this year, it’s Lewis Hamilton on pole. This one he had to work at, but it came good in the end. It’s a long run to Turn One, and Valtteri Bottas is hoping to use that to slipstream past his team-mate. But Max Verstappen will be hoping the same in his Red Bull. After that, Hamilton said he did not know what to expect on this new track to Formula 1.

    “Hopefully more than one (stop),” he said (don’t bet on it). “In terms of following, it’s a medium- high-speed circuit and it’s not going to be easy follow, particularly through that middle sector. But maybe track temps, tyre temps might mean there’s more degradation. Corners are quite long and you can take different lines, which I like - Turn 12, last corner, first corner. So I am hopeful that means a little bit of racing.”

  2. Get involved

    #bbcf1 on Twitter

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    F1 big cheese Ross Brawn's eyes lit up when seeing events at Monza. He plans to revive plans for reverse-grid sprint races in place of qualifying.

    Mereceds boss Toto Wolff thinks it is all little much like the scripted spandex and steel chairs of WWE.

    "No-one wants a winner started from a reverse grid," he said yesterday.

    "It is not worldwide wrestling, where the outcome is completely random."

    What do you think? A welcome innvoation or a descreation of the sacred Corinthian spirit of racing?

    Let us now via #bbcf1 on Twitter.

  3. Seven days ago

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    And if you ever needed a reminder of the merry chaos that develop when 20 cars are gunning around an F1 circuit, you only need to cast your mind back seven days to Monza.

    Lewis Hamilton seemed over the horizon and locked on to another win when, the arrival of a safety car, an illegal entry into the pitlane and a stop-go penalty for the defending champ saw the cards thrown up in the air. AlphaTauri's Pierre Gasly emerged clutching a full house and victory.

    It was full whacky races and it has got some of the paddock talking...

  4. The calendar curveball

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    Mugello is a calendar curveball that pretty much the entire paddock is playing for the first time.

    Fuel loads, tyre degradation, driver fatigue, pitstop stragies - all are unknowns as this old-school high-speed circuit makes its debut in F1.

    There are not terrabytes of historical data for the teams to churn through and streamline their strategy. And although the circuit is a full-throttle monster, there are some wide sections that lend themselves to some wheel-to-wheel white-knuckle racing.

  5. Rinse and repeat?

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    New (to F1 at least) circuit, same old story?

    Well, perhaps.

    Lewis Hamilton, after making uncertain noises about Mugello, pulled a pole position out of his back pocket.

    Valtteri Bottas, after looking impressive in free practice, was out-qualified by his Mercedes team-mate for the seventh time in nine 2020 Grand Prixs.

    And Max Verstappen was the best of the rest by a country mile.

    But hang on just one moment...