Lewis Hamilton won this afternoon with great superiority 2015 Italian Grand Prix. The English driver also ran away to the lead as 54 points is what is between him and Nico Rosberg, who retired with broken engine. Sebastian Vettel saved Ferrari’s honour as Felipe Massa closes podium.
Race started with first surprise of the weekend; Kimi Räikkönen left the car in the grid for too long and arrived to first turn in last position. Hamilton escaped with Vettel as Rosberg was bothered by Räikkönen’s Ferrari and fell to P7. McLaren made a great start and Button was into points zone with Sainz Jr. Both Lotus retired on two first laps as Grosjean broke the car and Maldonado received a touch.
As laps were going on Hamilton was going further from Vettel as Räikkönen was escalating until reaching eighth position. Hottest fight was between both Red Bull, Sainz and Button. McLaren driver would stay for short time in points zone and fell to twelfth position, until Nasr and Verstappen, who were coming from last positions, caught him and left him in P15, just in front of his team mate.
Sainz, suffering pressure from both Red Bull, stopped early when he received a 5 second penalty for track limits. He would stop two times. Rosberg, in front, overtook Bottas and was going for Massa. Meanwhile, Vettel got distance from them as Force India were in no one’s land.
Rosberg was first to stop. Good decision from Mercedes, as next lap Massa was in but brasilian was not unable to stay in front of german driver. Nico was into podium position and with just Vettel between him and his teammate. Vettel stoped and so did Räikkönen, positions did not change; fights would have to take place on track.
Räikkönen, with fresher tyres, finished his climb overtooking first Ericsson’s Sauber and then both Force India. Pérez was in front of Hülkenberg, who had problems with his VJM08. Behind, Ricciardo overtook Ericsson as Alonso retired, again, for engine issues.
But when just 3 laps were remaining, Nico Rosberg’s car was smoking. Fires came and engine was broken. This has a lot to do with german’s championship, which might be almost lost. Massa was now into the podium.
Meanwhile Hamilton was told to be as fast as possible and not ask anything about this order. This mistery would make Hamilton finish 4 seconds away from Vettel (25 seconds) and complaining about the order as “it was too risky”.
What actually was going on was that Mercedes were susceptible to receive a penalty because of incorrect pressure on tyres. Finally this would not happen and Hamilton maintains victory and is now 54 points away his teammate.
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Results:
| Pos | Driver | Team | Time | |
| 1 | Lewis Hamilton | GBR | Mercedes | After 54 Laps |
| 2 | Sebastian Vettel | GER | Ferrari | +25.042s |
| 3 | Felipe Massa | BRA | Williams | +47.635s |
| 4 | Valtteri Bottas | FIN | Williams | +47.996s |
| 5 | Kimi Räikkönen | FIN | Ferrari | +68.860s |
| 6 | Sergio Perez | MEX | Force India | +72.783s |
| 7 | Nico Hulkenberg | GER | Force India | +1 lap |
| 8 | Daniel Ricciardo | AUS | Red Bull Racing | +1 lap |
| 9 | Marcus Ericsson | SWE | Sauber | +1 lap |
| 10 | Daniil Kvyat | RUS | Red Bull Racing | +1 lap |
| 11 | Carlos Sainz | ESP | Toro Rosso | +1 lap |
| 12 | Max Verstappen | NED | Toro Rosso | +1 lap |
| 13 | Felipe Nasr | BRA | Sauber | +1 lap |
| 14 | Jenson Button | GBR | Mclaren | +1 lap |
| 15 | Will Stevens | GBR | Marussia | +2 laps |
| 16 | Roberto Merhi | ESP | Marussia | +2 laps |
| 17 | Nico Rosberg | GER | Mercedes | DNF |
| 18 | Fernando Alonso | ESP | Mclaren | DNF |
| NC | Romain Grosjean | FRA | Lotus | DNF |
| NC | Pastor Maldonado | VEN | Lotus | DNF |