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Lewis Hamilton gets his season back on track after a faultless drive at the royal park.
His race was shaped with a good start, holding off a charging Massa into the first chicane and then never looking back, building up a healthy lead and controlling the pace from there.
Sauber will be delighted again with another epic performance from Sergio Perez, while Fernando Alonso picks up another strong podium to keep his championship charge right on course.
Disappointment for Button, who was well placed for a podium result, while a gutted Sebastian Vettel endured a difficult afternoon, but there will be talk and reaction after his moment with Alonso in the middle of the Curva Grande at almost 170 mph.
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His race was shaped with a good start, holding off a charging Massa into the first chicane and then never looking back, building up a healthy lead and controlling the pace from there.
Sauber will be delighted again with another epic performance from Sergio Perez, while Fernando Alonso picks up another strong podium to keep his championship charge right on course.
Disappointment for Button, who was well placed for a podium result, while a gutted Sebastian Vettel endured a difficult afternoon, but there will be talk and reaction after his moment with Alonso in the middle of the Curva Grande at almost 170 mph.
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McLaren closes to just 29 points behind Red Bull in the constructors' points after a terrible weekend for the reigning champions.
Raikkonen is a point behind Hamilton, with Vettel - who retired today - now fourth and right with that pair.
Alonso remarkably extends his championship advantage after starting 10th and is now 37 points clear of Hamilton.
Niki Lauda is on hand to interview the podium drivers infront of the fervent crowd.
The champagne sprays on the podium and Hamilton gets a drenching from Perez, before all three of them shower the assembled tifosi.
The tifosi below are delighted as Alonso gets his third place trophy following another great drive through the field.
Sergio Perez receives his award for second place. A wonderful drive from the Mexican and he is understandably delighted and celebrates.
McLaren's principal race engineer Phil Prew is on hand to receive the constructors' award.
Hamilton picks up the winner's trophy after a fine drive to victory in Italy.
The top three drivers walk onto the podium and God Save the Queen rings out over Monza for today's winners - Lewis Hamilton and McLaren.
Two drivers officially retired from today's race:
Button ground to a halt at two-thirds distance with a fuel pick-up problem, while Jean-Eric Vergne skidded his way to retirement at the first chicane, after a suspected suspension failure.
Button ground to a halt at two-thirds distance with a fuel pick-up problem, while Jean-Eric Vergne skidded his way to retirement at the first chicane, after a suspected suspension failure.
Karthikeyan was 19th with Webber classified 20th, Hulkenberg classified 21st and Vettel also classified, in 22nd position.
Perez bounces out of his second-place Sauber and celebrates wildly with the team.
Kovalainen finished 14th, just one-tenth of a second ahead of team-mate Petrov, with Pic 16th, Glock 17th and de la Rosa 18th.
Maldonado also got past the disappointed Australian and comes home 11th, with Ricciardo 12th, D'Ambrosio 13th and getting to the end.
Ricciardo faltered in the final sector on the last lap. His chance of a point slipped away, as Senna swept through into 10th.
Delight for Hamilton, who cuts through all of the speculation about his future with what the team declare a "fantastic" drive.
Rosberg posted the fastest lap of the race on his final lap and comes home seventh, with di Resta eighth and Kobayashi ninth.
A late charge from Schumacher gives him sixth and is the leading man to try two stops this afternoon.
Raikkonen manages to hang on to aeging tyres to take fifth in his Lotus.
A good drive from Massa today but he had to cede position to Alonso and can only manage fourth at the flag.
Third for Alonso in the end after battling through from a lowly 10th grid slot. He is still very much in command of the championship fight.
It's a brilliant second for Perez in the Sauber, making the most of his tyres with some incredible pace for another great podium.
A fine drive from the 2008 champion as he gets right back into the title race with his third triumph of the campaign.
Lewis Hamilton wins the Italian Grand Prix!
Lap 53: Hamilton rounds the Parabolica and heads for victory at Monza.
Lap 53: Schumacher continues to close on Raikkonen but it looks like he won't make it past the Lotus by the flag.
Lap 53: Perez is 5.8 seconds behind the McLaren and looks to be on course for a brilliant second place.
Lap 53: Rosberg is also very quick in seventh, with di Resta eighth, Kobayashi ninth and Ricciardo in 10th spot.
Lap 53: Hamilton begins his final lap at Monza.
Lap 52: Webber tours into the pits, reporting massive flat spots on his tyres after that high-speed spin.
Lap 51: Raikkonen in fifth is trying to make it on his used tyres, but Schumacher is less than two seconds behind him now.
Lap 51: Webber is touring after that incident at the Ascari chicane. He is dropping down the order like a stone.
Lap 51: Perez has the gap down to 7.3s, as Hulkenberg pulls into the pits and retires.
Lap 50: Webber has made some kind of error at the Ascari chicane. Replays show that he grabbed perhaps too much kerb and that pitched him into a high-speed spin.
Lap 50: Vettel arrives back in the pitlane on foot, no doubt extremely disappointed.
Lap 50: Rosberg pulls out and passes the Scot into the Roggia chicane, demoting the Force India driver to ninth spot.
Lap 49: Rosberg is continuing to charge. He has caught di Resta and they are fighting over eighth.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Simon Strang
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