Lewis Hamilton is celebrating his third success of the season, complying with a win in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
The 2008 world champion drove from pole setting to surface 4.3 seconds ahead of Sergio Perez, who drove a sensational race from 12th on the grid. The young Sauber motorist completed ahead of the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso as well as Felipe Massa, who had swapped locations in the final part of the race.
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Hamilton was very first into turn one, ahead of Felipe Massa who managed to jump Jenson button at the start. Alonso likewise made a strong begin from 10th on the grid – he slip-streamed past Kamui Kobayashi before overtaking the Lotus of Kimi Raikkonen to take sixth. He then squeezed past Sebastian Vettel before inheriting fourth location from Michael Schumacher, who was making his very first of two pit stops.
In the meantime, Hamilton was hectic extending his lead, while Massa lost the telemetry feed from his car. He began struggling, which allowed Jenson button to regain second location before a fuel pick-up issue ended the McLaren driver’s race as well as McLaren’s dreams of a one-two finish.
Further back in the field, Perez was running a long very first stint on his difficult tyres. He fought his method past Nico Rosberg, Bruno Senna, Paul di Resta, Kobayashi as well as Raikkonen, before pitting, overtaking Raikkonen once again as well as inheriting locations from Button, Vettel as well as Schumacher to go fourth. He then set his sights on the two Ferraris.