00:00It's lights out, away we go, they weren't held for long, and Verstappen does get away well, alongside him is Daniel Ricciardo, and Ricciardo is inching into the lead, Daniel Ricciardo will have the inside line here, ahead of Max Verstappen, Hamilton has gone away well too, it's Ricciardo into the first chicane, ahead of Verstappen, Hamilton on the outside of Lando Norris, Joe Volante's made up a place, past Carlos Sainz, and he's now battling with Charles Leclerc, and to the curva grande we go.
00:23That was perfect for Hamilton, straight up into third place, went around the outside of turn two, he's directly behind his championship rival, indeed he's alongside him.
00:32And Hamilton and Verstappen go into the second chain, and a chicane, and Hamilton goes off onto the rumble strips, and is forced wide, and he might lose a place there to Lando Norris, as Antonio Giovinazzi has spun round and loses his front wing, it is Ricciardo that leads from Verstappen, Norris and Hamilton is back.
00:49We are there, car number 99, Robert Kibitza, without his front wing, so Kibitza has had a moment, and we've got a virtual safety car, as we look back to the De La Ruggia chicane, and not for the first time in a chicane this season, a wheel contact between Verstappen and Hamilton.
01:04And it's pushed me wide, coffee.
01:11So Verstappen was a little bit locked up going in there, and now, look at that.
01:17Did he get hit by Carlos Sainz there, Antonio Giovinazzi, get past, let's look at the great start once again, dream start here for Daniel Ricciardo.
01:24They all got away quite well, didn't they, but Ricciardo just in the second and third sort of phase, pulling up through the gears, powered through, then had the inside line, I always think it's a little bit odd, I don't know, it's the racing line on the left-hand side, but it does leave you on pole position, it does leave you rolling, Hamilton then, clean and clear as you like, around the outside of Norris, and he picks up the slips.
01:47It's one of those, to me, racing incidents that you often get, and we've seen before.
01:50On the first lap, I can't really see that, oh yeah, so this is what I think, Giovinazzi comes back on the track, in an unsaid manner, Charles probably could have and should have read that one a little bit better, and that's going to stop you there, because I think Hamilton with a bit of DRS here, as Norris tries to break the toe, he's going to go for a move, under braking, Lando Norris just squeezes Lewis Hamilton to the far left-hand side,
02:16and very gently and very subtly there, stop Hamilton from making a risky move, but Hamilton's going to come back at him, not just through the curva grande, but towards the De La Roja chicane, and Hamilton on the inside, has got enough of a gap there, has he got the pace, in a straight fight with Norris, not on this occasion, Norris under braking, holds on to that third place.
02:34Yeah, a little check in his mirrors, Lando Norris, so positioned his car well.
02:37Oh, of course Charles Leclerc, next up for Valdry Rotter, it's phenomenal, so Esteban Ocon, and Sebastian Vettel, going into the De La Roja chicane, Vettel, really been in the wars today, his struggle started, but he was overtaken by his teammate, Lando Norris.
02:52Yeah, you've got to leave a car's win, and, yeah, Sebastian's earned the right there, his axle, front axle, yeah, that's, uh, that's, uh, this demeanor there from Ocon, Sebastian's front axle was beyond the rear axle of the Alpine at one point, and that, unsurprisingly...
03:16Well, I could have, might as well have taken the syllable.
03:19And, unsurprisingly, it's been noted for the stewards.
03:23That is completely against the problems, and you're not allowed to do that, two seconds.
03:27And mode seven, mode seven.
03:30Um, I didn't click anything with the overtake, so why is it going lower?
03:34Still as good as anyone.
03:36Yep, understood. I think this is the pace for a bit.
03:39Top star, Stanley Ricciardo's race engineer celebrated his 43rd birthday yesterday, uh, with a fine third place in the sprint, Valtteri Bottas, uh, Wyatt swing to the back of the grid.
03:51Ricciardo started on this race by a second and a half now from mismatch with Stanley.
03:56Ooh, a lock-up there.
03:58That'd be where that goes for half a second, since they came from, in terms of the gap.
04:04Yep, so, locked his left front. Obviously, as your tyres well, you know, you're starting to struggle under braking as well.
04:10I'll back out.
04:11Understood.
04:12Yeah, I'll have more time than, uh, hiking, boycotting.
04:17Yeah, don't worry about it.
04:19Yeah, you've got to have your name down.
04:24He, pursued by the helicopter in the background, has got an almighty lot of pace, uh, to help that main straight.
04:30Valtteri Bottas now dares get up into a place.
04:33So, as soon as it was coming in three laps, that's exactly when it happened.
04:36Valtteri Bottas, and we still see no sign of Max Verstappen, who comes out into this race in 10th place.
04:42He's gone from second to 10th by an 11 second stationary stop in the pit lane.
04:47Every twist and turn is critical for the world championship.
04:51And that stop has put him completely out of contention.
04:55He releases Ricciardo beautifully up front, doesn't it?
04:58So, Lewis Hamilton, in a swing of about half a minute, this championship race has been blown wide open all again.
05:06And this is how Hamilton got past Lando Norris into the De La Rogea chicane.
05:10Mate, nice work Lewis. This is off. Come on, mate.
05:13It's on and it's happening right in front of our eyes.
05:17Verstappen, uh, was a comfortable second place challenging Daniel Ricciardo.
05:22The big key, no he's not.
05:24And there's Max Verstappen right behind Hamilton into the first chicane once again.
05:28It's wheel to wheel Hamilton and Verstappen.
05:30And this time Verstappen and Hamilton have crashed out and they are both out as Hamilton came.
05:36Unsurprisingly, safety car deployed. Lewis has got damage on his roll hoop look.
05:42Hamilton's trying to get out of that gravel. You can see he's kept the engine running.
05:46Verstappen walks away.
05:48Switch off the engine please, Lewis.
05:53Well, it is fair enough to go around the outside. Lewis can't cross over until the white line finishes.
05:59Um, and...
06:02Ah, see Max's car hit the rollover hoop of Lewis's car. That's where the damage has come from.
06:08He hits the sausage curve as well. That's what throws him back into the path of Lewis and then up into the air when his car makes contact with the Mercedes.
06:22Look at this.
06:24Look at this.
06:25There we go, across the top of Lewis, the rollover who does its job there for, uh...
06:29And the halo too.
06:30And the halo.
06:33And then the tyre...
06:34Uh...
06:35Yeah, I don't...
06:36I think Lewis got...
06:37Obviously Lewis's rear wing.
06:38No wonder when I told him to switch it up, the rear wing had broken anyway.
06:41And, uh...
06:42That was, uh...
06:43What a scary, scary moment there.
06:45Even with the halo bar to look at the rear right tyre of Max Verstappen's red ball.
06:51Heads of Charles Leclerc.
06:52It's McLaren 1-2 and Monza after the safety car.
06:56Norris is completely fearless.
06:58He was on the grass at one point in the Curve of Grande there.
07:01Absolute attack there.
07:03McLaren 1-2, as you say.
07:05McLaren versus Ferrari.
07:07Sounds familiar from a long time ago, doesn't it?
07:09Yeah, look, we were talking about the championship battle, but don't forget the battle for third in the championship as well.
07:13It's as keenly contested, trust me.
07:16And McLaren winning out on this occasion as Lando Norris gets past Charles Leclerc.
07:21There are fans here with Lando Norris.
07:23But right, it was Leeds bouncing around earlier on, wasn't it?
07:25Let us watch on board with the Haas.
07:29Oh dear, and Mick Schumacher.
07:31He might be very good friends with Sebastian Vettel, but the friendship gets tested when you do things like that.
07:37And eventually, Mick Schumacher.
07:41McLaren's out in front.
07:42Riccardo and Norris, and here comes Valtteri Bottas for another battle with a Ferrari.
07:46Charles Leclerc is behind him as they go into the first chicane.
07:50Bottas is in a rocket ship down the straights.
07:53You've said all afternoon that his teammate, Lewis Hamilton, is out of the race as is Max Verstappen.
07:59The two top two of the championship taking each other out at this corner.
08:03The first chicane at the corner that Valtteri Bottas has moved.
08:07How is that allowed to go off?
08:09And then you're going to talk from that.
08:11Has moved past before on the previous lap.
08:15His teammate for Nikita Mazepin.
08:17We saw that a little earlier.
08:19So lap 40 then of 53 here at Monza.
08:23And if you're just joining us, we lost Yuki Tsunoda and Pierre Gasly pretty much right at the start.
08:28Alfa Tauri in their home race have had one to forget.
08:31And then we lost Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton colliding with each other at the first turn as Hamilton came out from his pit stop.
08:39They took each other out of the race.
08:41They ended up in the gravel.
08:43Drivers walked back at a distance from each other to the pit lane.
08:47And we will see what the stewards say about that.
08:50They just took too much life out of those tyres too early.
08:53A little bit of grinding on the right rail you can see.
08:58Well, this was another challenge going back through Bottas.
09:01Braking deep into the corner.
09:04Locking up as a result.
09:06He's in course for his first victory since Monaco in 2018.
09:13He left Red Bull.
09:14He went to Renault.
09:15He's gone to McLaren.
09:16He's going to get the victory now.
09:18It's McLaren and Ricciardo that win the Italian Grand Prix.
09:22Lando Norris comes out to make it a 1-2 for the man from Woking.
09:27Sergio Perez comes out to take third on the road, but he drops down to fifth.
09:33Just moved aside for a while.
09:35Thanks, guys.
09:36Nice touch.
09:37Perez did finish fifth.
09:39He was ahead of Sainz with his five sanders generated to an extent what we've had today.
09:46And for Valtteri team in Scarlet Red, Daniel Ricciardo with his Italian heritage has given them a chance to celebrate the achievements of a team in Papaya Orange.
09:58Pierre Gasly was the man who was an unexpected winner last year here in Monza.
10:04Daniel Ricciardo has returned to the top step of the podium in a dramatic race here this afternoon in the sunshine of Monza.
