ROUND 15: 🇮🇹 Italy

FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO D’ITALIA 2026

Weekend Schedule

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  • Practice 1: Friday, 13:30 CEST | 11:30 UTC
  • Practice 2: Friday, 17:00 CEST | 15:00 UTC
  • Practice 3: Saturday, 12:30 CEST | 10:30 UTC
  • Qualifying: Saturday, 16:00 CEST | 14:00 UTC
  • Race: Sunday, 15:00 CEST | 13:00 UTC

Circuit stats & Tyres

  • First Grand Prix: 1950
  • Number of laps: 53
  • Circuit Length: 5.793 km
  • Race Distance: 306.720 km
  • Lap record: 1:21.046 Rubens Barrichello (2004)
  • 2025 Pole: Max Verstappen (1:18.834)
  • 2025 Fastest Lap: Lando Norris (1:21.350)
  • 2025 winner: Max Verstappen
  • Pirelli Tyres: C3 (Hard) ⚪, C4 (Medium) 🟡, C5 (Soft) 🔴
  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    5·
    6 days ago

    And the Aston Martin magic they had at Zandvoort seems to have already faded out, back to your regular backmarker racing.

    Zandvoort is a downforce track where the chassis is the most important, almost a Monaco light. It seems their chassis is alright after the post-summer break upgrades. Monza meanwhile is a power track. Around 80% full throttle and testing mostly the engine. Unsurprisingly Aston suffers here as the Honda PU is still a train wreck. In fact, I saw some measurements that the Aston was embarrassingly close to F3 top speeds here at Monza this year, let alone F2.

    • mamg22@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      Huh, interesting. So the summer engine upgrade didn’t help much last time because the aero did the heavylifting? Damn, thought AM could become competitive in the midfield, but I’ve been fooled by Honda.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        2·
        6 days ago

        I too was fooled but, in fairness around the time of the engine upgrade last race Honda were talking about Next YearTM, and it seems maybe there was a reason for it. This should be Aston’s worst track of the year (although I can’t imagine Baku being happy fun times for them either), but I would not expect miracles this season. Maybe another points finish, if we’re lucky.