In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton has played down missing the pre-race “end racism” observance, saying it was a timing issue and “not the end of the world.”
What they say
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Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel were not visible during the broadcast of the pre-race end racism observance at yesterday’s race:
“It was just timing. I went back to my garage, it’s the furthest away. I took the scooter back and just basically ran out of time. I thought I left to come back in time. Usually I’m guided of when to leave, I left when I was told to leave the garage to come back. By the time I got back, everyone had already taken the knee.
So definitely I missed it. But it’s not the end of the world. I got to see that my team continued to take the knee, which I think is great. And we’ll just try to do better with timing next time. Perhaps I won’t go all the way back to my garage when it’s that far away. In the past, usually there is another toilet somewhere closer.”
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Social media
Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
https://twitter.com/HSouthwellFE/status/1302553062515650560
Thinking of my pal Jonathan Williams today, no one has done more to keep the glorious history of @WilliamsRacing alive than him with his #WilliamsHeritage team, or has a more encyclopaedic knowledge of their history.
— Marino Franchitti (@MFranchitti) September 6, 2020
One last pre-race talk…with a little surprise at the end 😊
Thank you Claire from the entire team 💙#ItalianGP 🇮🇹 | #WeAreWilliams pic.twitter.com/BRQzoXZJ3a
— Williams Racing (@WilliamsRacing) September 6, 2020
When people talk about domination in #F1, they once meant these guys. @WilliamsRacing won five constructors’ titles in six years from 1992 to 1997.
It’s the end of an era: The 740th and final race for the family in charge of the team which has won 114 races since its debut. pic.twitter.com/gJCDFgrUB9
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) September 6, 2020
The @WilliamsRacing name may stay on, but this race truly marks the end of an era. Immense sadness as I walked past the trucks ahead of race. pic.twitter.com/JTsmLSRV3V
— Fritz-Dieter Rencken (@RacingLines) September 6, 2020
Seeing an empty Monza sucks. Mind you the crowd for the F2 race earlier was probably larger than the one for the F2 race I attended there in 2012
— Ben Evans (@bencommentator) September 6, 2020
Well that was different to any of the race sims last night. #MonzaGP #podium pic.twitter.com/4h4jIyZAc8
— Bernie Collins (@bernie_collins1) September 6, 2020
Damn. What a day of @F1. I bet no one woke up and expected today to be quite like today. Just 2020 things I guess #F1
— Lando Norris (@LandoNorris) September 6, 2020
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Charles and Seb both retire (Ferrari)
Mattia Binotto: “It’s even more disappointing that Sebastian’s retirement was down to a lack of reliability on the car. Problems like that, in this case with the brake system, should not happen.”
Lance on the podium after Monza magic! (Racing Point)
“It’s been a disappointing day. Anything that could go wrong seemed to happen to us.”
Italian Grand Prix 2020 (AlphaTauri)
Franz Todt: “Strategy-wise, the team did a fantastic job in deciding to bring him in one lap before the safety car was deployed. Of course, we didn’t know this at that time, but at the end this was exactly the right call because at the restart of the race he was in third and was able to overtake Stroll into turn one.”
Italian GP (Williams)
George Russell: “It was an unfortunate race and we were unlucky not to pit before the red flag. The car was feeling really good, we were just slow on the straight. Every time I overtook a car, they just passed me on the straight.”
Race recap (Haas)
“I had to pit, came back out with a new front-wing, and I had really, really good pace. We didn’t expect to have that level of pace. That makes it even harder to be out of the race so early.”
A rollercoaster of emotions (Alfa Romeo)
Kimi Raikkonen: “It was a very disappointing result in the end but there was nothing we could really do. We only had soft tyres left at the red flag, after using mediums at the start, which effectively put us in a very difficult position.”
Round eight post-race two penalties (F3)
“Five drivers have been handed penalties following today’s Formula 3 Race 2 in Monza, including Liam Lawson, who loses second place.”
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Comment of the day
Renault’s decision to rebrand its team prompted puzzled responses from readers:
“So when they put sister-brand Infiniti on the Red Bull cars Renault weren’t happy. And now that they have their own respectable team.. they put Alpine on it.
I don’t get it. The Renault brand is way more connected to Formula 1. Most people remotely interested in F1 know about the 2005 and 2006 seasons and Renault’s success. Besides, Renault mostly only hurt their reputation between 2014 and 2018 with slow, unreliable engines. From 2019 onwards they fixed that – they are a respectable team now. Why wouldn’t they want the Renault brand to benefit from that?”
HK (@Me4me)
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On this day in F1
- 45 years ago today Niki Lauda clinched his first world championship by finishing third for Ferrari at Monza, while team mate Clay Regazzoni won the race.