What the groups mentioned – Race day on the 2024 Italian Grand Prix | System 1®

Mercedes

Russell began third, however bought too late on the brakes into Flip 1, his automobile getting a bit squirrely. That despatched him broad, and by the point he’d weaved his approach around the bollards, he wound up rejoining down in seventh with entrance wing harm. An early cease for a brand new entrance wing value him, which means the remainder of his afternoon was spent battling with Perez. As for Hamilton, he was slightly in no man’s land. He didn’t have the tempo to chase down the Ferraris and McLarens, however managed to complete comfortably forward of his former foe Verstappen.

Lewis Hamilton, fifth

“We didn’t have the tempo in the present day to struggle for extra. The McLarens and the Ferrari in notably have been sturdy. I managed to maintain up with Sainz however couldn’t do the longer stint and the one-stop that he was capable of. If we had began forward of him, we would have been capable of maintain him off. Finally although, we would have liked a greater steadiness with the automobile in the present day to realize far more.

“It’s a disgrace to return away from a weekend the place we have been wanting so sturdy with out extra to point out for it. We regarded good all through follow and qualifying however couldn’t fairly match that in the present day. The sector is so tight now and will probably be fascinating to see what occurs over the approaching races. We’ll maintain working laborious and hopefully have a stronger race in Baku in two weeks’ time.”

George Russell, seventh

“It was a irritating day in the present day. Finally, we didn’t have the tempo to struggle for the rostrum, however my race got here undone on the first nook. It’s disappointing when that occurs after all of the efforts the staff put in over the weekend. I made a great begin however bought caught within the soiled air behind Piastri. I locked as much as keep away from him and picked up some front-wing harm. That compromised my opening stint, and we misplaced time within the pit cease having to vary the wing itself.

“Our tempo hasn’t been as sturdy because it was previous to the summer time break, both right here or in Zandvoort. As a staff, we are going to go away, put the trouble in, and discover out why that’s. Different groups appear to have taken a step ahead so we might want to work diligently to get again onto phrases with them.”

Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport

“Congratulations to Ferrari and Charles Leclerc on a well-deserved victory in the present day. It’s all the time a particular second when the scarlet pink automobile wins right here at Monza. Our personal race was higher than Zandvoort however nonetheless not good. We accomplished the two-stop technique as we suffered from graining on the entrance left tyre, which made the one-stop unlikely. It was a tough problem to handle and laborious to know whether or not to decide to the one-stop or push tougher and go to the two-stop. Our tempo in the present day made it tough to attain far more than we did on both path although.

“We now have not carried out on the stage we did earlier than the summer time shutdown within the final two races. Once you don’t have the tempo, it makes technique choices tough as we noticed in the present day. We now have a while to analyse why that’s now earlier than Baku and goal to return again stronger.”

Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director

“We did not have a robust race in the present day. Heading into the Grand Prix, we knew that the tyres have been going to be fragile and certain require a little bit of administration so as to make lengthy stints work. Sadly, we did not have the tempo to have the ability to each handle the tyres and sustain with our opponents forward.

“Lewis ended up P5 after lap one and got here dwelling in that very same place. We tried the two-stop technique in opposition to Sainz because it appeared unlikely we might be capable to cross him on observe. Sadly, we couldn’t recatch the Ferrari within the remaining stint. George in the meantime had a tough first lap; he needed to bail out at flip one when after which broke his entrance on the second chicane. That led to an early and lengthy cease. We may have probably gained a spot on Verstappen if we had dedicated to the one cease however finally the opening lap harm was the larger value. It seems to be like we’ve misplaced some tempo relative to our rivals because the summer time break. We’ll go away and examine why that’s and what we have to do to place in a extra aggressive displaying in Baku.”