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00:00Welcome along to round 14 of the Formula One World Championship in 2021.
00:07We're at Monza. It is the Italian Grand Prix.
00:14As we look to the grid now, five lights on ahead of the drivers.
00:17It's lights out and away we go. They weren't held for long.
00:20And Verstappen does get away well. Alongside him is Daniel Ricciardo,
00:23and Ricciardo is inching into the lead.
00:25Daniel Ricciardo will have the inside line here ahead of Max Verstappen.
00:28Hamilton has got away well too. It's Ricciardo into the first chicane.
00:32Ahead of Verstappen, Hamilton on the outside of Lando Norris.
00:35Giovinanti has made up a place past Carlos Sainz,
00:37and he's now battling with Charles Leclerc.
00:39And to the curva grande we go.
00:41That was perfect for Hamilton, straight up into third place,
00:43went around the outside of turn two.
00:45He's directly behind his championship rival. Indeed, he's alongside him.
00:49And Hamilton and Verstappen go into the second chain,
00:52and a chicane, and Hamilton goes off onto the rumble strips,
00:55and is fourth wide, and he might lose a place here to Lando Norris,
00:58as Antonio Giovinanti has spun round and loses his front wing.
01:02It is Ricciardo that leads from Verstappen.
01:05Norris and Hamilton is back and forth.
01:07And that will be a safety car, unless he can drive that quickly out of the way.
01:11There'll be body work on the track as well.
01:13They say he has got away. So that's good news then for the race.
01:16Bad news for Lewis Hamilton in terms of he looked like he was going to challenge for second place,
01:21take second place, and he slipped back.
01:23And we've got a virtual safety car as we look back to the Della Rodger chicane,
01:28and not for the first time in a chicane this season,
01:30wheel contact between Verstappen and Hamilton.
01:33That pushed me wide.
01:37Copy.
01:39So Verstappen was a little bit locked up going in there.
01:42And, yeah, look at that.
01:45Did he get hit by Carlos Sainz there, Antonio Giovinazzi?
01:49We're riding on board with him now. Charles Leclerc to the left.
01:56Oh, so he's gone straight across the chicane then,
01:58and somebody's presumably to his left at that point.
02:00Check if I have a picture.
02:02Giovinazzi.
02:03I need a copycat.
02:05Let's look at the race start once again.
02:08Dream start here for Daniel Ricciardo.
02:11They all got away quite well, didn't they?
02:13But Ricciardo just in the second and third sort of phase,
02:16pulling up through the gears, powered through, then had the inside line.
02:20I always think it's a little bit odd.
02:21I know it's the racing line on the left-hand side,
02:23but it does leave you on pole position.
02:25It does leave you vulnerable.
02:27Hamilton then clean and clear as you like around the outside of Norris
02:31and picks up the slipstream of Max Verstappen
02:34and will be alongside heading into the second chicane.
02:37It's absolutely flat out through Curva Grandi for anybody and everybody,
02:41wherever you are on the racetrack.
02:42And there we go.
02:43A little bit Imola-esque, wasn't it?
02:46Yes, it was.
02:47In terms of the action there with Verstappen on the inside.
02:50And look at this.
02:51The first time Ricciardo's led a race since Abu Dhabi 2018.
02:55Which, of course, was his last race for Red Bull.
02:58And he leads from his former Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen,
03:01who's now got DRS and is less than a second behind him on the road.
03:05Now we're on board with Lewis Hamilton and watching a replay here
03:08as he tries to get alongside Max Verstappen.
03:10How did you see this, Martin?
03:12Wheel contact there.
03:13Hamilton pushed wide.
03:14It's one of those, to me, racing incidents that you often get and we've seen before.
03:18On the first lap.
03:19I can't really see that.
03:21Oh, yes.
03:22So this is what happened.
03:23Giovinazzi comes back on the track in an unsafe manner.
03:29And that's getting a touch rude between the Aston Martin drivers.
03:32That'll make the debrief a bit interesting, won't it?
03:35Yeah.
03:36It's cost Vettel dearly, hasn't it?
03:37Cost him three places in the end, four places in the end,
03:40as Latifi gets past him as well, as Pierre Gasly gets out of his car.
03:44Not one, but two Alfa Tauris out of this race.
03:47Last year's race winner, Pierre Gasly, never got the chance to get going this afternoon.
03:52Bottas up to 13th already.
03:54That's good early progress from the back of the grid.
03:57It certainly is, as we hear that noises radio.
03:59Hamilton is struggling when it gets close.
04:01We're getting good gaps to the rest of the field.
04:03Keep this up.
04:04Well, Joseph, his race engineer, giving him the encouragement message
04:08as we head to Sky Race Control and Paul de Resta.
04:11Yeah, just one thing, Crofty Perez has made good ground.
04:13The Ferraris have got as much pace as the McLaren's,
04:15but the thing for me is, Perez could very much play a part.
04:19Because he started on the better tyre, he's going to stop early on Hamilton
04:23and he's going to maybe gain track position when he comes out on a fresh set.
04:26And that could hurt Mercedes. Perez could play that part of support.
04:30Well, here is Perez trying to play that part very nicely indeed.
04:34But back comes Carlos Sainz. Perez thought he got that move done.
04:38Round the curva grande we go.
04:39Carlos Sainz is about three-quarters of a car left in front.
04:42Perez has got the inside line, so he's coming back at the Ferrari.
04:45And Sergio Perez to the Della Roger chicane is in front of Carlos Sainz.
04:50Yeah, he's gone, look, he's gone really deep and that makes the right-hander really tight.
04:56He knew immediately he'd got to go and cover the inside.
05:00The slightly compromised exit, but job done.
05:03And Lewis, we've seen some higher dig on a couple of the medium runners.
05:08We just need to make sure we can make our target.
05:11Maybe Mercedes got it absolutely spot on then.
05:14If you can survive the start here, the hard tyre they say becomes a very nice race tyre.
05:19Hamilton's, well, front left certainly looks in a decent condition at the moment.
05:23Ted, down to you.
05:24They just had to do, Mercedes just had to do something that confused Red Bull, didn't they?
05:27Yeah.
05:28I think they have, but it might turn out to be a nice stretcher yet.
05:30And in fact, I think both McLarens are doing both championship contenders,
05:34Verstappen and Hamilton, a favor and for Hamilton to be still in touch.
05:38Well, Hamilton is a lot closer to Lando Norris.
05:40I'm just going to stop you there because I think Hamilton with a bit of DRS here
05:43as Norris tries to break the toe is going to go for a move under braking.
05:47Lando Norris just squeezes Lewis Hamilton to the far left-hand side
05:51and very gently and very subtly there stop Hamilton from making a risky move.
05:55But Hamilton's going to come back at him, not just through the curva grande,
05:59but towards the De La Roja chicane.
06:01And Hamilton on the inside has got enough of a gap there.
06:03Has he got the pace in a straight fight with Norris?
06:06Not on this occasion.
06:07Norris under braking holds on to that third place.
06:09Yeah, a little check in his mirrors for Lando Norris.
06:11So, positioned his car well.
06:12He moved abruptly, but cleanly down the pit straight.
06:16Difficult to see how much, how far behind him Hamilton was there,
06:20but good defensive driving from Lando Norris.
06:23And you can tell Lewis was just pulling his punches there.
06:26He does not need to trip over that McLaren.
06:31As Ricciardo now comes in and we can go down to Ted.
06:33Yeah, so this needs to be good for McLaren.
06:35He comes in, hits his marks very well.
06:37The tyres come off, the new tyres go on.
06:39That's perfect, absolutely perfect.
06:41I can't believe, is Verstappen in? Surely not, Crofty.
06:44No, he's not.
06:45Surely he's gone through.
06:46So, Red Bull were just out, just covering if they needed to.
06:49But that was excellent.
06:50So that was McLaren avoiding Verstappen doing the undercar.
06:53Right, let's have it.
06:54Right, so out comes Daniel Ricciardo behind the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz.
06:59So what I think that would have been for Red Bull is,
07:01do whatever he doesn't do.
07:03He pits, you carry on.
07:06Keep the pressure on, it wasn't a super quick stop from McLaren.
07:11Yeah, my tyres are .
07:13His tyres are shot, says Max Verstappen,
07:16who has a 31% chance of an overtake dropping down
07:19to a 27% chance of an overtake and dropping down all the time.
07:23This lap continues.
07:24Our predicted gap powered by AWS,
07:27as he's now told to come in and boxed by the Red Bull team.
07:30So what kind of out lap is Ricciardo,
07:32who's a little bit tucked up behind Sainz at the moment.
07:35Ricciardo has had a personal best middle sector.
07:38He's having a decent out lap, is Daniel.
07:40So Lando Norris takes the lead, Lewis Hamilton in second,
07:43then comes Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez,
07:45and he's still waiting.
07:46It's Max Verstappen, what is happening?
07:48Down at Red Bull, the kings of the sub 2 second pit stop.
07:52They'll be lucky if that's sub 10 seconds.
07:54No, 11 seconds on the grid for Max Verstappen,
07:57who will come out into this race a long way behind Daniel Ricciardo,
08:01and potentially behind Valtteri Bottas as well.
08:04And there comes Lance Stroll behind Valtteri Bottas,
08:07and we still see no sign of Max Verstappen,
08:09who comes out into this race in tenth place.
08:12He's gone from second to tenth by an 11 second stationary stop in the pit lane.
08:17Every twist and turn is critical for the world championship,
08:21and that stop has put him completely out of contention.
08:25Releases Ricciardo beautifully up front, doesn't it?
08:28So Lewis Hamilton out in front now, ahead of Lando Norris.
08:34Norris was ahead of Hamilton, who's got past him on the road,
08:38and in the swing of about half a minute,
08:41this championship race has been blown wide open all again.
08:44And this is how Hamilton got past Lando Norris into the Della Roger chicane.
08:48Nice work, Lewis. This is off. Come on, mate.
08:51It's on and it is happening right in front of our eyes.
08:55Verstappen was a comfortable second place challenging Daniel Ricciardo.
09:00A slow pit stop down at Red Bull,
09:02and we can look at it now as they adjust the front wing angle,
09:05and then what is going on? Why is Max Verstappen still stationary?
09:09What the f*** talk?
09:15Norris ahead of you. Norris ahead.
09:17Yeah, I can see that.
09:19I'll leave you to it.
09:20Yeah, I'll just come on the radio whenever it's critical, but f***.
09:24Hamilton now does come into the pits,
09:29and that is a little bit slow as well,
09:32but not half as slow as it was for Max Verstappen.
09:354.2 seconds for Hamilton in his pit stop,
09:38and I know they've changed the procedures at the pit stops,
09:42but we're not expecting times to be that much slower,
09:44maybe by a couple of tens.
09:46Hamilton comes out onto the race track now,
09:49and is he going to be ahead of Lando Norris?
09:52That's the big key. No, he's not.
09:54And there's Max Verstappen right behind Hamilton,
09:56into the first chicane once again.
09:58It's wheel to wheel. Hamilton and Verstappen!
10:00And this time Verstappen and Hamilton have crashed out,
10:03and they are both out!
10:05As Hamilton came from his pit stop,
10:08rejoined the race track,
10:10Lando Norris was ahead,
10:11and in their desperation to stay ahead and to get ahead,
10:15the two championship protagonists
10:17have taken each other out of the Italian Grand Prix.
10:21What a bizarre incident.
10:24Absolutely bizarre.
10:27And Lewis is trying to get out of there, look.
10:30That's what you get when you don't leave the space.
10:34Behind the safety car now,
10:36we have the pit stops.
10:37Out in front was Charles Leclerc,
10:40and Charles Leclerc, you see,
10:42the Ferrari fans are going absolutely wild here,
10:44and so they should,
10:45because taking his pit stop behind the safety car
10:48will do Charles Leclerc at no end.
10:50At no end of good.
10:51He's in second place behind Ricciardo.
10:53They've tripped over each other,
10:55but I'm trying to think,
10:56I'm trying to remember an incident like that
10:59where one car just literally climbs up the front of another
11:02and stays there.
11:03Oh, this is back to Prost and Senna days, isn't it?
11:06And to the chicane at Suzuka,
11:07and the animosity that went with that.
11:11Let us have a little look then at what happened.
11:14Hamilton on the right-hand side,
11:16coming out of his, out of the pit lane,
11:18moves across.
11:19Did Verstappen have enough space
11:21in the initial part of that chicane?
11:23And then did he try and get a bit cheeky in the second part?
11:27Max hasn't done anything wrong there.
11:29Atmosphere enough to go around the outside.
11:31Look at this.
11:33Look, look, and there we go,
11:35across the top of Lewis,
11:36the rollover, who does its job there for...
11:38And the halo too.
11:39And the halo.
11:40And the halo.
11:43And then the tyre...
11:45Yeah, I think Lewis got...
11:46Obviously Lewis's rear wing.
11:48No wonder Bono told him to switch it off.
11:49The rear wing's broken anyway.
11:51And that was a scary, scary moment there.
11:55Even with the halo, Martin,
11:56look at the rear right tyre of Max Verstappen's Red Bull,
12:00rubbing against the crash helmet of Lewis Hamilton,
12:03by the looks of it.
12:04And Hamilton certainly trying to get as low in his cockpit
12:07as he possibly could.
12:10Wow.
12:11That was a very, very near miss there for Lewis Hamilton.
12:17We've got to go on, maximum attack.
12:19And it's safety car coming in at the end of this lap.
12:23Daniel Ricciardo's won seven Grand Prix.
12:25He knows what to do.
12:26He knows how to win this race.
12:28And he has survived leading Grand Prix's
12:30with a safety car restart.
12:31Now he's gone.
12:32Charles Leclerc's gone with him.
12:34Lando Norris has certainly gone with Charles Leclerc.
12:36They're watching on at Ferrari,
12:38as round the Parabolica we come.
12:40And going very wide again, Lando Norris.
12:43But that gets them a straight line,
12:45and an earlier straight line down the straight,
12:47as they all try and break the toe.
12:48And weaving about a bit is Daniel Ricciardo.
12:50Valtteri Bottas is making a move on Carlos Sainz.
12:53Lando Norris is making a move on Charles Leclerc.
12:55Ricciardo leads into turn one.
12:57Leclerc and Norris, they make contact,
12:59but Charles Leclerc keeps that second place.
13:02Behind them comes Sergio Perez,
13:04then Carlos Sainz and Valtteri Bottas.
13:06Sixth place for Bottas, then Stroll,
13:08Alonso, Russell and Latifi.
13:10And now, watching through the curva grande,
13:12brilliant move from Lando Norris,
13:15who's ahead of Charles Leclerc.
13:17It's McLaren one, two, and Monza after the safety car.
13:21Norris is completely fearless.
13:23He was on the grass at one point in the curva grande there.
13:26Absolute attack there.
13:28McLaren one, two, as you say.
13:30McLaren versus Ferrari.
13:31Sounds familiar from a long time ago, doesn't it?
13:34Yeah, we were talking about the championship battle,
13:36but don't forget the battle for third in the championship as well.
13:38It's as keenly contested, trust me.
13:40And McLaren winning out on this occasion,
13:43as Lando Norris gets past Charles Leclerc.
13:46Here comes Valtteri Bottas and Carlos Sainz,
13:49and they were just criss-crossing each other.
13:51Has Bottas gone ahead of Carlos Sainz
13:53into the Red Afilo chicane?
13:55Yes, he has.
13:56Valtteri Bottas, from 19th on the grid,
13:58is now up to fifth.
13:59And that's Sebastian Vettel in the walls once again.
14:01Antonio Giovinazzi just behind him.
14:04Robert Kubica ahead of him.
14:06And he's sandwiched now between the two alphas as Sergio Perez
14:10trying to move on Charles Leclerc,
14:11as into the De La Roja chicane we go.
14:13Perez goes over the rumble strips,
14:15and bounces back onto the track,
14:17ahead of the Ferrari,
14:18who's coming at him into the two Lesmos.
14:20He needs to give that place back to the Ferrari.
14:22He took the place off the track as he did yesterday.
14:25This is the Perez incident.
14:27Is that rejoining the track safely?
14:29He didn't leave me any room.
14:33Valtteri Bottas got one Ferrari on the previous lap.
14:36He's going to go and try and get a second Ferrari
14:38on this particular lap.
14:39Leclerc brakes a lot later
14:41and maintains his advantage, stays ahead of Bottas,
14:45but immediately, unlike Perez yesterday,
14:47gives the place to Valtteri Bottas.
14:49He can't leave the track and gain the lasting advantage,
14:52so he immediately gave that place back,
14:54but he's fighting it now with Valtteri Bottas,
14:56just ahead into the De La Roja chicane,
14:58breaks later and holds on to that fourth place.
15:01There are scraps going on here, there and everywhere here at Monza.
15:04I thought Leclerc had lost that one.
15:06That was a good effort to recover that position.
15:09Oh, it's that alarm.
15:11You go off and then you're going to talk from that.
15:13Yeah, so what Bottas is saying, look,
15:15he went off and then got a slipstream from me
15:18and he gained a lasting advantage is the key phrase.
15:22And here comes Valtteri Bottas for another battle with a Ferrari.
15:27Charles Leclerc is behind him as they go into the first chicane.
15:31Bottas is in a rocket ship down the straights.
15:34That's going to come in handy a little bit later on.
15:36Can Valtteri Bottas produce that real racer's race?
15:39Checker, we've had a five second penalty for that overtake on the court.
15:42All those out, we're going to get that five second gap.
15:45And Norris, Norris has a penalty as well.
15:48Negative, nothing for Norris here.
15:50Perez with a question mark in his tone there.
15:54Valtteri Bottas, seven podiums in 2021 is last win.
15:58Russia 2020, where we go to the next race.
16:02It's almost a calendar year since Valtteri Bottas last stood on the top step of the podium.
16:06But he is definitely in the fastest car at the moment because of those medium compound tyres.
16:13Bottas is trying to get through here, past the Curva Grande we go.
16:16He's ahead, going into the De La Roger chicane.
16:18Can he make it stick? Perez is going to fight him back on the exit.
16:21He went deep, Valtteri Bottas. Thought he had the move. Perez let him go.
16:27Knew he got a bit too deep and then took that third place back again.
16:30Pivotal for this race and he'll be cursing himself because he had the move well done there, didn't he?
16:35And over, he sort of, he overtook him twice effectively and got in too deep on the brakes.
16:40Let's have a look at it again as a gap opens on the inside of the Curva Grande,
16:47which seems to be a very nice place for overtaking on this sunny Sunday afternoon.
16:51And at that point Valtteri's like, yep, done this, done this, done this. Oh no, more brakes.
16:56Gave it a little tweak of brake bias, didn't he?
16:59He went to 60 on his wheel there. Not much. Not for long.
17:06Ready yourself again, Toto.
17:10For the first time in a long, long while, we're watching two McLarens out in front.
17:16Their last one-two, Canada, 2010. Their last race victory, Brazil, 2012.
17:23And they are tantalizingly within touching distance of adding to that tally of 182 race wins.
17:31Daniel Ricciardo leads Lando Norris. Ricciardo leading for the first time since Abu Dhabi in 2018.
17:40On course for his first victory since Monaco in 2018.
17:45He left Red Bull. He went to Renault. He's gone to McLaren. He's going to get the victory now.
17:50It's McLaren and Ricciardo that win the Italian Grand Prix.
17:55Lando Norris comes home to make it a one-two for the men from Woking.
18:00Sergio Perez comes home to take third on the road, but he drops down to fifth because of that five-second time penalty.
18:08Bottas on the podium for an eighth time this season ahead of Leclerc.
18:13Sainz, Stroll, Alonso, Russell and Ocon complete the top ten, start the celebrations for McLaren.
18:19Ricciardo's done it.
18:24Yeah!
18:26He won!
18:28But he did it!
18:32Yes!
18:34Yeah, boy!
18:39Yes!
18:40Woo!
18:44Great day for McLaren, great day for Formula One actually in that respect.
18:47But yeah, they both pulled the pin on the last lap.
18:49Ricciardo with a 1.24.8.
18:51Norris with a 1.24.9.
18:53They had performance to Spear as well.
18:58Amazing.
18:59Strat five.
19:00Let's go, Ben!
19:01Woo!
19:02Let's go!
19:03Vamos!
19:04Vamos!
19:05Get in there!
19:06Let's go!
19:07Woo!
19:08Woo!
19:09Woo!
19:10Okay, mate.
19:11Yes, boys!
19:12Daniel Ricciardo has returned to the top step of the podium in a dramatic race here this
19:17afternoon in the sunshine of Monza.
19:21Lando Norris returns to the podium and where third was once the highest he stood after a Formula
19:28One Grand Prix, now he can take the runners-up spot for the first time.
19:32Valtteri Bottas then on the podium for the eighth time this season.
19:36Lando Norris just gains a little bit on Valtteri Bottas.
19:40Nine points, the difference in the battle for third place at the moment.
19:44Daniel Ricciardo eighth now in the championship.
19:47The championship.
19:48The championship.
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