• Räikkönen breaks Montoya’s record for fastest average speed
Kimi Räikkönen took pole position for Ferrari at the Italian Grand Prix, with a dominant lap of Monza beating his team-mate Sebastian Vettel into second place. In doing so he set a record for the fastest lap recorded in Formula One and Ferrari scored their 60th front-row lockout. Lewis Hamilton was in third for Mercedes, with his team-mate Valtteri Bottas in fourth.
Vettel was top of the time sheets in the first two sessions but on the initial hot runs in Q3, he went slightly wide at the second Lesmo and could manage only third behind Räikkönen and a 10th off Hamilton, who was quickest. On the final runs Räikkönen, who was on track again behind Vettel and may have picked up a slipstream from the German, executed perfectly to take pole with a time of 1min 19.119sec.
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