ITALIAN GRAND PRIX
AUTODROMO DI MONZA - MONZA
Italian GP: all you need to know
The Italian Grand Prix in Monza. Our home race! What better way to say farewell to the European part of the season than spending a weekend in the atmospheric Royal Park in Monza, surely one of the most iconic venues in motorsport. F1 in Monza means “the temple of speed.”
As the sun burns the early autumnal mist off the trees early on Sunday morning and the crowds take up their places in the grandstands, in the trees, on the advertising hoardings and anywhere that affords them a view of the track, this race really does feel special.
Monza on the outskirts of Milan is around 280 kilometres from our factory and therefore it provides the best opportunity for all our staff who work tirelessly behind the scenes in our factory in Faenza to come and see the results of their efforts at first hand.
MONZA CIRCUIT
Great Heritage
The Monza circuit is located inside the Villa Reale park. It took just 110 days to build what was then the third permanent race track in the world, after Indianapolis and Brooklands, the latter no longer in use. With the exception of the 1980 race, which was run at Imola, all Italian Grands Prix have been held at Monza.
Temple of speed
Monza has quite rightly been known as this for a very long time, with drivers spending 80% of the lap with the pedal to the metal. The fastest ever Formula 1 lap was set at Monza in 2004 by Juan Pablo Montoya. In free practice, the Colombian stopped the clocks at an average speed of 260.6 km/h.
