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Jum'at - 14/9
Latihan Bebas 1
Latihan Bebas 2 |
Sabtu - 15/9
Latihan Bebas 1
Latihan Bebas 2
Kualifikasi |
Minggu - 16/9
Pemanasan
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Circuit information:
| Round Number: |
15 |
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| Race Date: |
16-09-2001 |
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| Country: |
Italy |
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| City: |
Monza
(click for location
map) |
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| Circuit Name: |
Monza |
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| Circuit Length: |
5793 m. |
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| Number of Laps: |
53 |
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| Race Length: |
306.764 m |
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| 2000 Pole Position: |
Michael Schumacher |
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| 2000 Winner: |
Michael Schumacher |
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| 2000 Fastest Lap: |
Mika Häkkinen |
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 Circuit
Description, History, Facts and Figures |
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The Autodromo de Monza was built in the Royal
park of the same name in 1922. Its most
innovative feature was a two-track layout; a
normal road course and a banked oval; the two
circuits offering the potential to be run
together. Some of the oval is still in place
today, although sadly neglected and overgrown.
In 1955, the Italian GP was run over both
tracks, so that cars passed the start-finish
line twice every lap, once when completing a
circuit of the oval and once on the road
section, giving a total lap distance of almost
ten kilometres. The banking was last used in
1961, while another F1 landmark was reached the
previous year, when Phil Hill, driving a
Ferrari, scored the last ever win for a
front-engine grand prix car.
But the one race that really stands out in the
modern age is the 1971 Italian GP. In those
pre-safety conscious days, Monza was just five
corners linked by straights and it was almost
impossible for one car to pull away from the
slipstreaming pursuers. Chris Amon was on pole
in a Matra, but it was Clay Regazzoni in a
Ferrari who blasted into the lead on Lap 1, from
the fourth row of the grid. The lead changed
hands several times until, with 18 laps to go,
pole man Amon was back in the lead and looking
good for his first ever F1 win.
It was not to be for the luckless Kiwi, who is
reckoned to be the best driver never to have won
a grand prix. Seven laps from the flag, he tried
to remove a tear-off visor, the entire unit came
away and he dropped back as his eyes took a
pasting from the wind. On the final lap, the
entire crowd was on its feet and, strangely for
Italy, silent with the tension. Ronnie Peterson
was leading once again in the March from
Francois Cevert in the Tyrrell, Mike Hailwood in
the Surtees and Peter Gethin in the BRM, who had
started back in eleventh spot.
Cevert was in front at Lesmo but as the they
approached the long Parabolica curve, Gethin who
had moved up to third, summoned all his courage
to pass Peterson on the grass, in a cloud of
smoke from locked up brakes. More out of shock
than anything, Cevert and Peterson moved over,
allowing the Englishman to score his only grand
prix win. It had been the fastest race in the
history of the sport and also provided the
closest finish. The first five were covered by
just 0.61 of a second and Gethin took the win by
one hundredth of a second. 28 years later, this
is still the fastest grand prix in history, run
at a staggering average speed of 242.615 km/h.
Only Britain has held as many national grands
prix as Italy - one for every year of the
Championship - so this will be the 51st Italian
Grand Prix. Remarkably, 49 have been held at
Monza and one at Imola (1980) so no other
circuit has had such a history of Grand Prix
racing in the modern World Championship.
Italy's Autodromo Nazionale, as Monza is known,
was originally conceived as a track on which all
kinds of vehicles could be tested. Three
locations were considered: the site now covered
by Malpensa airport; a site in the Cagnola
district, then on the outskirts of Milan, and
the Villa Reale park in Monza, then owned by the
Italian Veteransi institute.
Monza hosted the first Formula 1 World
Championship Italian Grand Prix in 1950 and on
the rostrum, at the end of it, were no less than
four Italians! Giuseppe Farina won the race, but
sharing the second placed Ferrari were Dorino
Serafini in his only Grand Prix and Alberto
Ascari. Third placed Luigi Fagioli was therefore
the fourth Italian in the first three places.
There were 32 starters in the 1961 race here,
the second highest for a Grand Prix and, not
surprisingly, it provided the second most
retirements ever at 20.
Monza also staged the shortest full distance
grand prix race ever, when the 1987 Italian GP
was all over in 1 hour 14m 47.707s.
Monza has hosted the World Championship-deciding
race 12 times, more than any other circuit, but
not since 1979 when Jody Scheckter clinched it
for Ferrari and became the Italian marque's last
World Champion.
Damon Hill's 1993 fastest race lap at Monza is
the fastest F1 lap ever at 155.241mph
(249.835kph).
There have been three Italian World Champions
and 78 Italian Grand Prix drivers, 13 of whom
have won 39 Grands Prix between them. Another 15
never qualified to race. Among those are one of
three Italian women Grand Prix drivers; the
other two are the only women ever to have raced
in a Grand Prix, and Lella Lombardi was the only
women to get into the points. |
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