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Hamilton鈥檚 rampant Monza win under tire scrutiny
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A RED-HOT Lewis Hamilton won the Italian Grand Prix to take a 53-point lead in the Formula One championship yesterday after Mercedes teammate and closest rival Nico Rosberg retired with his car in flames.
However, the Briton faced a post-race stewards enquiry for low tire pressures at the start, with the possibility of a time penalty being imposed.
Ferrari鈥檚 Sebastian Vettel of Germany took second place, 25 seconds behind the reigning world champion, to give local fans something to cheer as they flooded the Monza track in a wave of red for the podium ceremony.
Brazilian Felipe Massa took third for Williams, crossing the line 0.3 of a second ahead of his Finnish teammate Valtteri Bottas.
The win was the 40th of Hamilton鈥檚 career, one less than the career tally of his boyhood hero Ayrton Senna of Brazil, and seventh of the season as well as his third in Monza.
鈥淭his weekend鈥檚 been just fantastic, a perfect weekend for me,鈥 said the Briton, who dominated practice, started from pole position, led from the first corner and set the fastest lap. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know if I have ever had a weekend like this.鈥
If his race was untroubled, there were concerned faces afterwards at Mercedes when stewards reported that the left rear tire on Hamilton鈥檚 car was 0.3 PSI below the minimum starting pressure specified by Pirelli.
A team representative was summoned to the stewards, with fears he could face a penalty that might wipe out his advantage over Vettel, and possibly more.
鈥淚鈥檝e no idea what that might be,鈥 Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff, whose team had ordered Hamilton to push in the closing laps to increase his lead, said.
Rosberg鈥檚 tire had even less pressure but the German was past caring, his hopes literally going up in flames when he pulled over two laps from the end with smoke and flames billowing out from the rear of his car while in third place.
A pre-qualifying problem had forced Rosberg to start the race with an engine that had previously done five races, while Hamilton had a fresh one with upgrades for the fastest circuit on the calendar.
The German had started fourth but lost places taking evasive action when Ferrari鈥檚 Kimi Raikkonen, on the front row with Hamilton, struggled to get away with cars swerving around on either side.
The Finn was last into the first corner but fought back to take fifth place.
Force India鈥檚 Sergio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg were sixth and seventh with Australian Daniel Ricciardo eighth for Red Bull. Sweden鈥檚 Marcus Ericsson was ninth for Sauber and Russian Daniil Kvyat 10th for Red Bull.
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