F1 2025 Italy GP LIVE: Race standings, result and news in Monza

“P5 was likely the maximum we could have achieved today given our pace and our starting position. I was reasonably pleased in the early stages to be fighting the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc ahead.

“We thought they would have a bit of an advantage over us, but we were within DRS range of him for a while. Unfortunately, even with DRS, overtaking is incredibly difficult here and we couldn’t mount an attack. It is a shame that we leave here having lost a little bit of ground to Ferrari in the Constructors’.

“That said, it could have been worse, and we go into these final eight races with a good chance of taking second in the final standings. We will regroup now in the next week and look to perform well in Baku.”

Lando Norris’ world championship bid was controversially kept alive by his McLaren team, despite a poor pit-stop threatening to deal the British driver another title blow.

Norris had been on course to finish as runner-up to runaway winner Max Verstappen until he dropped behind title rival Oscar Piastri following a slow change of tyres with seven laps remaining.

However, Piastri was ordered by McLaren to move aside for team-mate Norris, which the Australian did on the 49th lap of 53 at Monza’s Temple of Speed. Piastri was bitterly disappointed with the decision, saying on the radio: “We said that a slow pit stop was part of racing so I don’t really get what changed here but I will do it.”

“I was really happy with it, a really good launch, I was happy with the position I had. I got close to George, in hindsight, we should have tried to undercut him at that point. We’ll learn from that.

“After the penalty, to be able to do a solid drive, in front of the tifosi, it’s unbelievable. I don’t deserve to be on the podium today, so I won’t, but I’ll go out to the wall and see them.”

On whether a podium is possible this year: “I don’t think so, Charles was giving it everything, Max is up there now, we don’t have the pace of Red Bull, today they were rapid, or McLaren, currently we’re fourth, a podium here or there, there’s a chance to have that at some point, but in terms of pure pace, we don’t have that.”

6. Aston Martin – 62 points

7. Racing Bulls – 61 points

“It was a nice battle, they just had more pace. I lost the rear multiple times, I couldn’t hope for much better. I tried, unfortunately the pace of the car was not what we expected.”

1. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) – 324 points

2. Lando Norris (McLaren) – 293 points

3. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) – 230 points

6. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) – 117 points

19. Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull) – 12 points

“A great day for us, we were flying! We pitted at the right time, we could push more, fantastic execution from the whole team. Super enjoyable to win here.

“For us, an unbelievable weekend.”

“I always know it will be a good fight with Max, but didn’t have the speed today. First weekend where we’re a bit slow, but I still really enjoyed it.

On pit-stop: “No idea. I was there for quite a long time, we make mistakes as a team, today was one of them.”

On championship: “I did everything I could, couldn’t do a lot more. Max deserved it, second was our best result, just keep doing what I’m doing.”

Gap to Piastri is now 31 points…

“Difficult beginning, not my best first couple of laps. It was pretty lonely from there, struggled a little bit. Car wasn’t exactly how I liked. Happy with the points, I’ll take it.

On the swap: “We went so long, the softs seemed good to put on. We stayed out for safety cars. Yeah… little inchident at the end but that’s OK.

“All in all, a lot of things to learn from this weekend.”