Leclerc beats Piastri and Norris for home Ferrari win 2024

Charles Leclerc beats Piastri and Norris for an exhilarating home Ferrari win in 2024, securing a memorable victory for his team and fans.

Ferrari opted for a bold one-forestall strategy for Leclerc, improving mid-race, to vault him in front of McLaren – who opted for the traditional -forestall approach.

This left Leclerc unexpectedly beaten by the final McLaren inside the final laps and he just managed to hold off, using 2.6 seconds to send the typhoons into the grandstands wild.

Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen should finish sixth, and Norris cut his championship lead from eight points to sixty-two with eight races to go thanks to the fastest lap before the checkered flag.

McLaren are now just eight points behind the Crimson Bulls in the constructors’ championship.

After locking out the front row of the grid, McLaren looked to be on course for the race for 1/2, with Piastrian Norris as the Australian overtook the Brit outside the second chicken gate on the first lap.

Piastre’s fair but aggressive pass in the first leg of the race ended with Norris dropping to 1/3 as Leclerc was able to slip away with the help of second on the exit of the corner.

After passing Piastri and Leclerc in the primary stint, Norris made his first pit stop in an attempt to slow his approach through Leclerc, who responded a lap later.

Ferrari pitted on the following lap but McLaren’s approach struggled, Norris vaulting ahead of Leclerc, who complained on the radio.

McLaren pitted Piastri to ensure he preserved the lead, following the guidelines of his crew being true to both drivers and now the race was between the 2 McLarens for victory. A fight was visible.

But Norris began to struggle on the tires, gradually losing 5 seconds to the back of Piastre and needing to make a second pit stop on lap 32, with 21 to go, Piastre after six laps. Followed him to make sure he stayed. Again from before.

That left Leclerc leading his team-mate Carlos Sainz by just 10 seconds and Piastre chasing each, with Ferrari determined to risk their arm.

They knew it would be difficult to pick a win, especially with such an early free-stall, but both drivers pulled it off.

However, even as Sainz dropped back to fourth behind the two McLarens, Leclerc’s lead was enough to keep him at the front, for one of the most beautiful and possibly unlikely victories of the year. can do
The gang cheered him on as he took his first Monza win for Ferrari in 2019.

“A great feeling,” said Leclerc. “I understand that the first time can be such an experience and the second time, if there is one, is not a special experience.

“But my God, the feeling on the last lap – like 2019. Excellent.
“Monaco and Monza are 2 races to win every year.
“In plain sight, they may be more viable and arguably possible to find more in the world, but these 2 are more unique and managed to settle in 12 months it’s just as unique. “

‘We were given it incorrect’ – McLaren lick wounds

Piastre said giving up the win “hurts”, including: “The position we were in, with the tires looking like they did, the single stop seems like a very risky call but it was the right one. Very happy with the race, but when you finish the 2d it hurts.
“In hindsight, definitely [we should have gone for the one-stop]. Everyone after the flag is a legend. We were given that wrong these days, me being a big part of that, losing to us.

“Charles should try something extraordinary. He was going to finish 0.33 and he picked the right gamble.

“The difficulty changed to look quite grainy but we didn’t expect it to be easy again, but it did.”

Norris gets upset by 1/3 but can still look back on a race in which he again scored more points than Verstappen, and yet has the same campaign as before – the Dutchman less than a factor of 8 on average by race compared to To win recognition. Behind Sainz, Hamilton finished 5th, well ahead of Verstappen, who had a tough race for the Crimson Bulls.

Unlike the rest of the top 10, both Purple Bulls started on hard tires as opposed to mediums, a questionable choice in the eyes of some rival strategists.
He edged him again on his first pit stop on lap 22, the easiest six after Piastre’s first Forrestal came through the medium.

This meant that Wistappen had to stop again to match the medium tires, and to make matters worse his braking was slow, taking him six seconds. His race became ever-searching complex from there, especially as Red Bull has misplaced its tempo advantage over its rivals in recent races.
The other Mercedes of George Russell won the battle with Verstappen’s group mate Sergio Perez for 7th.

The Briton started from 1/3, however, he misjudged Piastre’s rear braking at the first corner after clipping the McLaren damaging his front wing, and taking him to the run-off spot. Moved to seventh place.

The final points-scorers – in ninth and tenth – were Williams’ Alex Albon and Haas’ driving force Kevin Magnussen, who is banned for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after a collision with Pierre Gasly, leaving the Dane with 12 penalty points. has been taken.
Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur declined to comment on whether Oliver Biermann, who will take over for Haas in 2025, would update Magnussen in Baku.