In Numbers: 10 Monza Statistics

One of Formula 1’s original Grands Prix, this great sport has visited Autodromo Nazionale Monza in every season but one since 1950.

The quickest venue on the calendar sees drivers at full throttle for at least 80% of the 5.793km circuit, pushing these intricate pieces of machinery right to the very limit.

Here are 10 statistics we think you ought to know ahead of this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.

Williams have an excellent record at Monza during the hybrid era, finishing in the points with both cars in seven of the 10 races held here since 2014. Alex Albon added more points last year when he finished 7th.

Franco Colapinto will become the first Argentine driver to race in Formula 1 for 23 years. The last racer from his nation was Gastón Mazzacane, whose final appearance for the Prost Grand Prix team came in Italy at Imola in 2001.

Monza is the quickest track in Formula 1 and has played host to the fastest eight races ever held in world championship history.

Franco will become the 25th Argentine Formula 1 driver when the lights go out for Sunday’s race. As a nation, they lay claim to 38 wins in the sport - Juan Manuel Fangio with 24, Carlos Reutemann with 12 and José Froilán González with two.

We started on the front row at Monza as recently as 2017, when Lance Stroll became the youngest driver to do so in F1 history, aged 18 years 309 days - a record that still stands.

When Nyck de Vries was a Saturday morning call-up for Williams in 2022, he became the first driver in 44 years to feature for two different teams in the same Grand Prix weekend. The previous instance came at the 1978 Italian Grand Prix where Harald Ertl started the weekend pre-qualifying with Ensign before switching to ATS for qualifying – he failed to make the cut in both sessions.

In 2004, Juan Pablo Montoya set a record for the fastest lap in F1 which would take 14 years to break, with the Colombian averaging 264.24km/h

Our cars have qualified second on the grid at Monza on 11 previous occasions, more than in any other starting position at this track. Our most common finishing position at the Italian GP is P3 (10 times), the most recent of which came in 2014 and 2015 (both by Felipe Massa).

Monza is known as the Temple of Speed, but how fast can you actually go around this historic venue? Alex Albon clocked 349.1 km/h (216.9 mph) through the Speed Trap during Qualifying for this event last year.

Both our drivers have a combined six podium finishes at Monza, with Alex finishing P2 in GP3 and P3 in F2. Franco’s Temple of Speed experience includes a P1 and P2 in Formula Renault, plus two P1’s in successive F3 seasons.