In the round-up: Mercedes customers Racing Point believe the ‘quali mode’ ban cost them at least two tenths of a second in qualifying.
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What they say
Racing Point CEO Otmar Szafnauer believes the team should be able to compete for the podium tomorrow after Sergio Perez qualified fourth, four places ahead of team mate Lance Stroll:
We didn’t have quali mode. Usually that quali mode would have given us a couple more tenths here. And that would have been… we would have easily been in third. And even with Lance’s one mishap on one of the corners, a couple of tenths would have moved him up as well.
So it did have an impact. But I think what we lose today we should gain tomorrow.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
I mean, I’m disappointed with 6th and my lap in Q. But on the other hand, shows the progress we have made as a team if that’s what we call disappointing. Let’s keep pushing. Onto tomorrow 🇮🇹 @McLarenF1
— Lando Norris (@LandoNorris) September 5, 2020
If we really must have timing loops instead of proper run-off areas enforcing track limits, can we at least have them give instant readings so we're not left wondering if and when the stewards will delete a lap time?
Or, better idea, put the damn gravel back. #F1 #ItalianGP
— Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) September 5, 2020
Feel for Vettel, this is not the way he should be heading out of F1.
His best time today at Monza was 2.264 seconds slower than Hamilton's lap that set a new track-record.— Ben Hunt (@benjhunt) September 5, 2020
Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Mid-Ohio rescheduled for September 12th-13th (IndyCar)
"IndyCar will run at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course next weekend, with double-header races scheduled for Saturday September 12th and Sunday, September 13th. We look forward to an exciting weekend of racing action at an excellent venue."
Sebastian Vettel: "Everybody should stay in the position they are in the line, then everybody opens a gap and it should be fine to set a time. From our side, probably we didn’t pick the right time to get back on track and some others managed to do better than us, as they improved. "
Esteban Ocon: "In Q2, I was improving and then I lost the slipstream with Daniel going off in front of me. It’s disappointing to miss out on Q3 by a small amount of time."
Lewis and Valtteri lock out the front row at Monza (Mercedes)
Andrew Shovlin: "We’d done a bit of analysis yesterday on the effects of towing and for us, we seemed to be losing as much in the corners as we were gaining on the straights. Based on that, we decided to try and find some clean air to run in, which has the added benefit of simplifying your qualifying session."
Kevin Magnussen: "I made a mistake and went off – I was on the limit. I knew that if I got a perfect lap in we could probably beat Raikkonen, so I tried to go for it."
"The FIA matched a donation of €1 million raised in a charity auction in London to the Red Cross in Italy."
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On this day in F1
- 50 years ago today Clay Regazzoni scored his first victory in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza for Ferrari, Lotus having withdrawn following Jochen Rindt’s death earlier in the weekend.
