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The Italian Grand Prix will be held at Monza until 2031
Charles Leclerc won at Monza in 2024 - Photo: DPPI
La Formula 1 announced on Wednesday 27 November the contract extension of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza until 2031. This is a six-year extension of an agreement that previously ran until 2025. The new agreement follows major improvements to the Autodromo Nazionale Monza ahead of the 2024 Grand Prix, which was attended by 335 fans over the weekend. The 000 edition will be held one week later than this year, taking place from 2025 to 5 September.
Built in 1922, the Monza circuit – also known as the Temple of Speed – has hosted a Grand Prix every year since the first World Championship in 1950, with the exception of 1980, when the circuit was closed for renovation. Located just northeast of the city of Milan, one of the world’s capitals of culture and fashion, the 5,8km circuit boasts one of the fastest laps on the Formula 1 calendar, with drivers stepping on the accelerator for 80% of the lap. In 2020, Monza was the site of the fastest lap in F1 history in terms of average speed, when Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the 2020 Italian Grand Prix with a qualifying time of 1:18.887, with an average speed of 264,362 km/h.
Five drivers from the current grid – Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, Pierre Gasly et Max Verstappen – have won at Monza in F1. Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher have also won the Italian Grand Prix in the past.
BREAKING: Formula 1 to continue to race in Monza until at least 2031 🇮🇹#F1 #ItalianGP pic.twitter.com/iYoKO9jVo8
- Formula 1 (@ F1) November 27, 2024
Valentin GLO
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vincent moyet
28/11/2024 at 12:51 a.m.
As much as I like Monza (and I had the opportunity to see a GP there, it's something you have to have experienced), as for Monaco I'm starting to think that it's becoming a parody of a GP, see what happened there this year... If we criticize the insipid Tilkesque circuits which are only bling-bling meetings for celebrities, Monaco is even worse.
Yves-Henri RANDIER
28/11/2024 at 09:59 a.m.
Monza absent from the F1 calendar, totally inconceivable because of the immediate veto of Scuderia Ferrari! Furthermore, Monza will therefore not be concerned, like Monaco, by the famous upcoming rotations / alternations between the historic European Grand Prix
vincent moyet
27/11/2024 at 08:26 a.m.
"This new agreement follows significant improvements." Certainly, some are essential in terms of security. But when you see what happened with Monaco, F1 has now become a mafia system that applies racketeering: you pay or I cancel the GP. Even if we can deplore the absence of the French GP, I am happy not to fatten such a system with part of my taxes.