Qualifying results 2018 Italian F1 Grand Prix
Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen & Lewis Hamilton Italian GP F1/2018
Event: Italian Grand Prix
Track: Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Weather: Overcast, 19.9ºC
Tarmac: Dry, 28.4ºC
Wind speed: 5.4 km/h
Humidity: 71.5%
Kimi Raikkonen scored his 18th F1 pole position for tomorrow's 2018 Italian Grand Prix. It was the 219th pole for the Ferrari F1 team and his 1st pole of the 2018 F1 season. He will start from P1 for the 2nd time in Italy in his F1 career.
Brendon Hartley was the first to record a lap time in Q1 of the 2018 Italian F1 GP in the Toro Rosso. Vettel drove the quickest lap time in Q1. His Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen was 2nd fastest.
Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen both drove the same lap time in Q1. Williams performed a lot better than normal this season and both drivers made it to Q2 at last. Romain Grosjean pushed out Sergio Pérez in Q1 by only 0.001 sec. Charles Leclerc also was pushed out by Grosjean with only 0.002 sec difference.
In Q2 both Haas driver went out as first to try to make it to Q3. Vettel and Hamilton already went head to head. Vettel was again fastest. But the Mercedes of Hamilton was also very quick. The gap to Vettel after the first stint was only 0.013 sec. Vettel drove a 1:19.785 min in Q2. With this time he already broke the quali record on Monza. The fastest pole time before the current Monza layout was 1:20.089 and set by Rubens Barrichello back in 2004.
Vettel even improved his time in his 2nd stint to 1:19.629 min. Max Verstappen also did a very good job by beating Bottas in the Mercedes for P4 in the Red Bull.
In Q3 Vettel drove out of the garage as first. But in the first stint Hamilton was fasest in the Mercedes with an even faster lap time of 1:19.390 min. It was Raikkonen who scored pole. His last pole was last year in Monaco. He also broke the pole record of Monza with his 1:19.119 min. The old pole record wasn't beaten for 14 years.
Big surprise this quali was Lance Stroll in the Williams, who made it to Q3 and P10.
Check out the overview of all 2018 F1 drivers with pictures and all statistics.
Qualifying Times 2018 Italian GP
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Laps |
| 1 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 01:20.722 | 01:19.846 | 01:19.119 | 21 |
| 2 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 01:20.542 | 01:19.629 | 01:19.280 | 20 |
| 3 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 01:20.810 | 01:19.798 | 01:19.294 | 20 |
| 4 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 01:21.381 | 01:20.427 | 01:19.656 | 18 |
| 5 | 33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 01:21.381 | 01:20.333 | 01:20.615 | 15 |
| 6 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas | 01:21.887 | 01:21.239 | 01:20.936 | 21 |
| 7 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Renault | 01:21.732 | 01:21.552 | 01:21.041 | 17 |
| 8 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Force India | 01:21.570 | 01:21.315 | 01:21.099 | 17 |
| 9 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Toro Rosso | 01:21.834 | 01:21.667 | 01:21.350 | 24 |
| 10 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Williams | 01:21.838 | 01:21.494 | 14 | |
| 11 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 01:21.783 | 01:21.669 | 0 | |
| 12 | 35 | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams | 01:21.813 | 01:21.732 | 12 | |
| 13 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren | 01:21.813 | 01:21.732 | 13 | |
| 14 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 01:21.850 | 01:22.568 | 14 | |
| 15 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | 01:21.801 | 0:00,000 | 12 | |
| 16 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Force India | 01:21.280 | 5 | ||
| 17 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Sauber | 01:21.889 | 10 | ||
| 18 | 28 | Brendon Hartley | Toro Rosso | 01:21.888 | 5 | ||
| 19 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | 01:21.889 | 10 | ||
| 20 | 2 | Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | 01:21.934 | 12 |
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