Italy 2008: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Vettel	Toro Rosso	1:35.464	1:35.837	1:37.555
2	Kovalainen	McLaren	1:35.214	1:35.843	1:37.631	+0.076
3	Webber	Red Bull	1:36.001	1:36.306	1:38.117	+0.562
4	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1:35.543	1:36.175	1:38.445	+0.890
5	Rosberg	Williams	1:35.485	1:35.898	1:38.767	+1.212
6	Massa	Ferrari	1:35.536	1:36.676	1:38.894	+1.339
7	Trulli	Toyota	1:35.906	1:36.008	1:39.152	+1.597
8	Alonso	Renault	1:36.297	1:36.518	1:39.751	+2.196
9	Glock	Toyota	1:35.737	1:36.525	1:39.787	+2.232
10	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:35.709	1:36.626	1:39.906	+2.351
11	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:35.553	1:36.697		+0.860
12	Fisichella	Force India	1:36.280	1:36.698		+0.861
13	Coulthard	Red Bull	1:36.485	1:37.284		+1.447
14	Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:35.965	1:37.522		+1.685
15	Hamilton	McLaren	1:35.394	1:39.265		+3.428
16	Barrichello	Honda	1:36.510			+1.296
17	Piquet Jr.	Renault	1:36.630			+1.416
18	Nakajima	Williams	1:36.653			+1.439
19	Button	Honda	1:37.006			+1.792
20	Sutil	Force India	1:37.417			+2.203

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Sebastian Vettel	Toro Rosso	1	53	1:26:47.494	2	Ferrari
2	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	2	53	+12.512	2	Mercedes
3	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	11	53	+20.471	1	BMW
4	Fernando Alonso	Renault	8	53	+23.903	1	Renault
5	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	10	53	+27.748	1	BMW
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	6	53	+28.816	2	Ferrari
7	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	15	53	+29.912	2	Mercedes
8	Mark Webber	Red Bull	3	53	+32.048	2	Renault
9	Kimi RäikkönenFastest lap	Ferrari	14	53	+39.468	2	Ferrari
10	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	17	53	+54.445	1	Renault
11	Timo Glock	Toyota	9	53	+58.888	2	Toyota
12	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	PL	53	+1:02.015	1	Toyota
13	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	7	53	+1:05.954	2	Toyota
14	Nico Rosberg	Williams	5	53	+1:08.635	2	Toyota
15	Jenson Button	Honda	PL	53	+1:13.370	2	Honda
16	David Coulthard	Red Bull	13	52	+1 lap	2	Renault
17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	16	52	+1 lap	2	Honda
18	Sébastien Bourdais	Toro Rosso	PL	52	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
19	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	51	+2 laps	3	Ferrari
DNF	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	12	11	Accident	0	Ferrari

Race

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Places gained

Kubica11→3+8
Hamilton15→7+8
Piquet Jr.17→10+7
NakajimaPL→12+6
Heidfeld10→5+5
Räikkönen14→9+5
Alonso8→4+4
ButtonPL→15+4
Sutil20→19+1
Vettel1→10
Kovalainen2→20
Massa6→60
Barrichello16→17-1
Glock9→11-2
Coulthard13→16-3
Webber3→8-5
Trulli7→13-6
Rosberg5→14-9
BourdaisPL→18-14

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Button27.666R45
2Hamilton28.460R36
3Räikkönen28.777R26
4Trulli28.961R35
5Räikkönen28.980R35
6Bourdais29.045R28
7Massa29.120R33
8Glock29.142R33
9Vettel29.189R36
10Rosberg29.627R33

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Vettel1818172 stops
Kovalainen2212192 stops
Kubica34191 stop
Alonso30231 stop
Heidfeld29241 stop
Massa2211202 stops
Hamilton279172 stops
Webber2212192 stops
Räikkönen269182 stops
Piquet Jr.36171 stop

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

This race in history

57 races here since 1950Won from pole: 16 of 57

Win from furthest back (P11): Peter Gethin 1971

Most wins here

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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