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Carlos Sainz beat Max Verstappen to pole position at Monza to delight the home Ferrari fans, as the Dutch driver goes for a record-breaking 10th consecutive F1 grand prix win.
F1 heads into a mini-break before the Singapore GP on 15-17 September. We'll call time on this live text coverage of the Italian GP, thank you so much for joining us this weekend. Have a lovely rest of your Sunday and we hope you can join us next time. Go well!
So, huge congratulations to record breakers Verstappen and Red Bull who make further F1 history. A frankly insane run of wins that for the team stretches back to last year's Abu Dhabi GP. 10 in a row for Verstappen, 15 in a row for Red Bull. They are just unbeatable right now.
A few late-race penalties have clicked in for Piastri and Sargeant which promotes Lawson into 11th and pushes the McLaren driver to 12th and the Williams driver to 13th. Stroll has also dropped to 16th behind Zhou up to 14th and Gasly up to 15th.
Verstappen on his record 10th straight F1 win: "I never would have believed this was possible. But we had to work for it today so that made it more fun. We had good pace, we were good on the tyres, but they [Ferrari] had great top speed. So I had to keep the pressure and force the mistake."
"Second was the maximum we could achieve today. We were lacking some top speed today. Much like Carlos and Charles, I had to use too much of my tyres to get by," Perez says on his runner-up result.
"It was tough, hard racing, it is always a pleasure to race Charles and it was the same today. He is a great racer, just like Checo and Max, so I hope we put on a good show," Sainz says on his in-race battles.
"It cannot get any tougher than it was today. Trying to keep the Red Bulls behind meant I paid the price with my rear tyres towards the end," Sainz tells Nico Rosberg in the post-race interviews.
Sargeant just misses out on points in 11th ahead of Piastri recovering from his clash with Hamilton. Lawson takes 13th ahead of Stroll, Zhou, Gasly, Hulkenberg and Magnussen. A DNF for Ocon and a DNS for Tsunoda completes the results.
Verstappen wins by 7.6s from Perez, with Sainz claiming third by 0.4s over Leclerc. Despite a pair of penalties for the Mercedes drivers Russell keeps fifth and Hamilton keeps sixth.
On the final lap Leclerc locks up into the first corner and almost collects Sainz! Somehow he avoids his team-mate as they continue to fight for third.
"Let's bring this home," Sainz tells Ferrari over team radio. He doesn't sound too convincing but on the penultimate lap defends again from Leclerc into the first corner.
On lap 49 Sainz locks up horrifically into the first corner but somehow keep Leclerc behind him for another lap. Sainz is doing everything he can to keep hold of the final podium place.
Entering the final stages, Haas will again be wondering just what it has to do to score a strong race result. Hulkenberg and Magnussen are the final runners after another weekend of strong qualifying pace, and woeful tyrewear.
Hamilton now passes Albon as Norris again lines up the Williams driver. With Hamilton's current pace, he may negate the penalty damage, just as Russell has.
Five laps to go and Sainz gets a double dose of misery as he can't defend against Leclerc. But Leclerc messes up his braking into Turn 1 and it invites Sainz back into it. They go side by side around Curva Grande and go inches away from clashing at the second chicane!
Perez once again tries around the outside of Sainz at the first corner but again is run out of room and has to take to the run-off. So he gives the place back to Sainz around the Curva Grande.
Albon and Norris have pulled clear of Hamilton now and the gap is, for the moment, increasing. It's unclear whether or not Hamilton has damage from that contact.
Next time around Perez attempts to go around the outside of Sainz into Turn 1 but runs out of room so takes to the run-off and has to give second place back to Sainz. "He's moving under braking," says Perez.
