- Mercedes’ world champion pips teammate Valtteri Bottas
- Vettel 17th, Ferrari’s first outside top 15 at Monza since 1966
The champagne is well and truly on ice for Mercedes in Italy, with their party revving up to assume some truly bacchanalian levels of revelry. As Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for the Italian Grand Prix, securing a one-two with his teammate, Valtteri Bottas, any fears the constructors’ champions would be impaired by the ban on using qualifying engine modes that came in to effect here were summarily dismissed.
Hamilton set the fastest lap in F1 history, hurtling round the 3.54 miles of the Parco di Monza circuit at 164.267mph, smashing Kimi Räikkönen’s record of 163.785mph, set two years ago. Only Bottas was even close to his coattails, seven-hundredths back. The gulf to the rest of the field was breathtaking. Carlos Sainz in the McLaren equalled his best qualifying place of third but was in a different time zone, eight-tenths behind Hamilton.
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