- French driver delights AlphaTauri team with first victory
- Lewis Hamilton penalised after pitting illegally
Pierre Gasly won the Italian Grand Prix for AlphaTauri, scoring an unlikely win at Monza as an incident-packed race proved disastrous for Lewis Hamilton. The world champion finished in seventh, having led until the halfway point, when he was given a penalty for illegally entering the pit lane. Carlos Sainz was second for McLaren with Lance Stroll in third for Racing Point. Lando Norris was fourth for McLaren and Valtteri Bottas fifth for Mercedes.
It is Gasly’s first grand prix win and the 24-year-old was understandably ecstatic at the finish, the Frenchman having closed out with verve and steel. It was especially poignant coming just over a year after he was demoted from the senior Red Bull team to its sister outfit after the Belgian GP. His previous best was second at the Brazilian GP last year. It is AlphaTauri’s first win as well; the team’s only other victory came in their previous guise as Toro Rosso, also here at Monza, when Sebastian Vettel won in 2008. The last French driver to win a grand prix was Olivier Panis at Monaco in 1996.
Written by Giles Richards at Monza
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/06/pierre-gasly-italian-grand-prix-maiden-f1-win-after-lewis-hamilton-penalty under the title “Pierre Gasly earns maiden F1 win at Italian GP after Lewis Hamilton penalty”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
