A podium without Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull.!!!!
Gasly finished first, 0.415 seconds ahead of McLaren’s Carlos Sainz, while Racing Point’s Lance Stroll rounded out the podium.
The 24-year-old Frenchman took full advantage of a 10 second drive through penalty for Lewis Hamilton and a red flag after Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc had a huge crash. Luckily Leclerc walked away from the incident.
While the early stages of the race saw Hamilton race out to a big lead, Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen struggled to get going.
But at the halfway point of the race, the race was flipped upside down with crashes and penalties wreaking havoc on the grid.
Vettel’s race was over very early as he plowed through a series of signs.He soon called in to his team and said “No more brake pedal, brake line exploded” before limping back to the pits.
It ended a sad weekend for him, but it was just the start of the drama. Soon after Kevin Magnussen broke down, pulling off at just before the pit lane.
His proximity to the pits meant that pit lane was closed with two red X’s flashing and a safety car deployed. As per usual, Lewis Hamilton appeared to be peerless in the race, and had a healthy lead, but looked to pit under the safety car.
The flashing lights were in Hamilton’s field of vision, footage from the cockpit revealed, and he – as well as Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi – pitted while the pit lane was closed.
the stewards were deliberating their penalties, Ferrari’s nightmare at Monza continued with Charles Leclerc slamming hard into the barriers in a crash Sky Sports’ David Croft said was “horrific”.
The race was soon red flagged. And then Hamilton and Giovinazzi were were handed 10 second drive through penalties, meaning the drivers needed to got through the pit stop process and stop for 10 seconds.
Hamilton was leading as the race was red flagged but when the race returned, he quickly took his penalty and had to come from the back of the field.
With Verstappen also retired from the race after an engine issue, while Bottas was struggling with pace from the outset, the battle for the win was between AlfaTauri’s Pierre Gasly and McLaren’s Carlos Sainz.
But while Sainz pushed, Gasly pulled it off, scoring AlphaTauri’s second ever win by just four tenths of a second