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Info:The Autodromo Nazionale Monza is a race track located near the town of Monza, north of Milan, in Italy. The circuit's biggest event is the Formula One Italian Grand Prix, which has been hosted there since the sport's inception.[4]
Built in the Royal Villa of Monza park in a woodland setting,[5] the site has three tracks – the 5.793 kilometres (3.600 mi) Grand Prix track,[2] the 2.405 kilometres (1.494 mi) Junior track,[3] and a decaying 4.250 kilometres (2.641 mi) high speed track with steep bankings.[4] Major features of the main track include the Curva di Lesmo, the Curva Parabolica, and the Variante Ascari. The high speed curve, Curva Grande, is located after a slow corner, but usually taken flat out by Grand Prix cars.
Drivers are on full throttle for most of the lap due to its long straights and fast corners, and is usually the scenario in which the open-wheeled F1 cars show the raw speed they are capable of (372 kilometres per hour (231 mph) during the V10 engined formula). The circuit is generally flat, but has a gradual gradient from the second Lesmos to the Variante Ascari. Due to the low aerodynamic profile needed, with its resulting low downforce,[6] the grip is very low; understeer is a more serious issues than at other circuits, however, the opposite effect, oversteer, is also present in the second sector, requiring the use of a very distinctive opposite lock technique. Since both maximum power, and minimal drag is the key for speed on the straights, only competitors with enough power at their disposal are able to challenge for the top places.[6]
(wikipedia.org)
Virtual lap:Tyres:Track:Weather:Race Stewards:Derek Daly - Ex-F1 and Champ Car driver
Paul Gutjahr - President of the FIA Hill Climb Commision and President of Auto Sport Suisse Sarl
Silvia Bellot - Graduate of the FIA Trainee Steward Programme
(Reuters) - Formula One statistics for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix at Monza:WINSFerrari have won 216 races in Formula One, McLaren 173, Williams 113 and champions Red Bull 22.
Michael Schumacher holds the record for victories by a driver, with 91. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has the second most among current drivers (27) and is level with Britain's Jackie Stewart in equal fifth place in the all-time lists.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel has 17, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton 16, Williams' Rubens Barrichello, McLaren's Jenson Button and Ferrari's Felipe Massa 11 each.
Vettel has won seven of the 12 races this season and 10 of the last 16. Schumacher holds the record for most wins in a season (13 with Ferrari in 2004).
Only three drivers have won seven races in a season and not gone on to take the title: Schumacher (2006), Kimi Raikkonen (2005) and Alain Prost (1988 and 1984).
No driver has ever won eight races in a season and not been champion.
Only five drivers have ever won eight races in a season - Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, Damon Hill, Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna.
POLE POSITIONVettel has been on pole in nine of the 12 races this season. Red Bull have been on pole in all of them, with Australian Mark Webber taking the top slot in Spain, Britain and Germany.
The record for poles in a single season by a driver is 14 (Nigel Mansell, 1992)
Vettel has 24 career poles. Schumacher a record 68.
Red Bull have started the last 13 races from pole.
The record for successive poles by a constructor was set by Williams with 24 in 1992/93.
McLaren's last pole position was with Hamilton in Canada in June 2010. Ferrari's last was with Alonso in Singapore last September.
ITALYFerrari have won eight of the last 15 races at Monza.
Michael Schumacher (with Ferrari in 2000 and 2003) is the only driver in the last 20 seasons to win at Monza and go on to take the championship that year.
The last Italian driver to win at Monza was Ludovico Scarfiotti with Ferrari in 1966. The last win in Italy by an Italian was Riccardo Patrese at Imola in 1990.
Neither of the two current Italian drivers, Jarno Trulli and Vitantonio Liuzzi, have scored points with their current teams.
POINTSVettel and Webber have finished their last 14 races in the points. Schumacher holds the record of 24 successive scoring finishes.
Team Lotus, Hispania (HRT) and Virgin Racing have yet to score a point in Formula One since their debuts in Bahrain last year.
ANNIVERSARYSaturday marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Germany's Wolfgang Von Trips and 13 spectators when he crashed his Ferrari at Monza
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Pole Lap 2010:Monza Grand Prix winners:2010 Fernando Alonso - Ferrari *
2009 Rubens Barrichello – Brawn-Mercedes
2008 Sebastian Vettel – Toro Rosso-Ferrari *
2007 Fernando Alonso – McLaren-Mercedes *
2006 Michael Schumacher – Ferrari
2005 Juan Pablo Montoya – McLaren-Mercedes *
2004 Rubens Barrichello – Ferrari *
2003 Michael Schumacher – Ferrari *
2002 Rubens Barrichello – Ferrari
2001 Juan Pablo Montoya – Williams-BMW *
2000 Michael Schumacher – Ferrari *
1999 Heinz-Harald Frentzen – Jordan-Honda
1998 Michael Schumacher – Ferrari *
1997 David Coulthard – McLaren-Mercedes
1996 Michael Schumacher – Ferrari
1995 Johnny Herbert – Benetton-Renault
1994 Damon Hill – Williams-Renault
1993 Damon Hill – Williams-Renault
1992 Ayrton Senna – McLaren-Honda
1991 Nigel Mansell – Williams-Renault
1990 Ayrton Senna – McLaren-Honda *
1989 Alain Prost – McLaren-Honda
1988 Gerhard Berger – Ferrari
1987 Nélson Piquet – Williams-Honda *
1986 Nélson Piquet – Williams-Honda
1985 Alain Prost – McLaren-TAG
1984 Niki Lauda – McLaren-TAG
1983 Nélson Piquet – Brabham-BMW
1982 René Arnoux – Renault
1981 Alain Prost – Renault
1979 Jody Scheckter – Ferrari
1978 Niki Lauda – Brabham-Alfa Romeo
1977 Mario Andretti – Lotus-Ford
1976 Ronnie Peterson – March-Ford
1975 Clay Regazzoni – Ferrari
1974 Ronnie Peterson – Lotus-Ford
1973 Ronnie Peterson – Lotus-Ford *
1972 Emerson Fittipaldi – Lotus-Ford
1971 Peter Gethin – BRM
1970 Clay Regazzoni – Ferrari
1969 Jackie Stewart – Matra-Ford
1968 Denny Hulme – McLaren-Ford
1967 John Surtees – Honda
1966 Ludovico Scarfiotti – Ferrari
1965 Jackie Stewart – BRM
1964 John Surtees – Ferrari *
1963 Jim Clarke – Lotus-Climax
1962 Graham Hill – BRM
1961 Phil Hill – Ferrari
1960 Phil Hill – Ferrari *
1959 Stirling Moss – Cooper-Climax *
1958 Tony Brookes – Vanwall
1957 Stirling Moss – Vanwall
1956 Stirling Moss – Maserati
1955 Juan Manuel Fangio – Mercedes *
1954 Juan Manuel Fangio – Mercedes *
1953 Juan Manuel Fangio – Maserati
1952 Alberto Ascari – Ferrari *
1951 Alberto Ascari – Ferrari
1950 Giuseppe Farina – Alfa Romeo
(* Victories from pole)
(http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/241961/at-a-glance-monza-grand-prix-winners/)
Fast Facts: Autodromo di MonzaLaps: 53
Direction: Clockwise
Corners: 11
Length: 5.793km / 3.599mi
DRS zones:
Detection 1: Exit of Parabolica
Activation 1: Start / finish straight
Detection 2: Between Lesmos 1 and 2
Activation 2: Between Lesmo 2 and Ascari Chicane
Engine Facts:Approximately 75% of the 5.793km Autodromo di Monza is spent at full throttle. That equates to 4.345km spent at close to max rpm.
Monza has the highest wide open throttle time of the year ; Spa-Francorchamps, the next highest, is around 70%.
In the earlier part of the season engines would typically be used for consecutive races, but since Spa and Monza are the toughest circuits of the year for the engines, fresh units are used at both races.
The engine internals are put under huge stress round the lap as they are used to their maximum. As a result Monza is THE reference for the Renault Sport F1 endurance tests on the dyno at Viry-Châtillon. The engines are run on the dynos for as much as eight hours to tweak the engine maps to get the maximum performance for the engine.
Being the hardest circuit of the season for the engine, all engine parts, maps and KERS usage, fuel and lubricants and so on, have to be carefully checked on the dyno to be 100% sure of reliability. The test engine could run as much as 3,000km (ten times the race distance) to check engine reliability and performance.
Dependant on the aerodynamic package used, top speed round Monza is around 330kph. In 2010 the highest speed from the R30 peaked at 333kph with the engine running at near maximum revs, 17,900rpm from a maximum of 18,000rpm.
Driveability into and out of the chicanes is key to a good lap time – even though a high percentage of the lap is spent on the throttle, lots of time can be won or lost in the chicanes so you need the engine to pick up quickly when you brake down.
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Enjoy another classic Italian Grand Prix this weekend. (posted today because tomorrow I have some other work to do)
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