F1 2022-Round 16 - Monza : Italian GP

Assuming Leclerc starts on pole, there's a great opportunity for the likes of Russell, the Alpines and Norris, to start from second.

It's probably going to be Leclerc,Russell,Alonso,Ocon, Norris, Verstappen then maybe Ricciardo, Haas or Aston Martin

Albon is a big loss for Williams. That car has speed, could maybe have been in line for a point or 2. Maybe de vries will get good work out though.

Won't Max's starting position depend on how they apply the penalties. Let's assume Max gets P1, Sainz P2 and Hamilton P3. Max gets demoted to P6, but will he go back up two places when Sainz and Hamilton get demoted? Or do the next two behind Max go above Max? Which would see strange.

The risk is that both Sainz and Hamilton are used to draft Leclerc and Russell, and don't qualify above 6th, in which case Max will be 6th but that shouldn't make much difference as he seems unstoppable this season.

How was Danny Ric in fp3? I assume way off the times still? Be mad if he did another worldie, especially with so many penalties in place...

De vries drove for aston in fp1 and now Williams for the weekend, can't imagine too many (if any, at all) have ever drove two different cars on the same GP weekend?

Be interesting to see how he fairs considering he's a rumoured choice for Latifis seat next year, really needs to take this opportunity. Big, warranted pressure on Latifi

I haven't noticed as I'm watching Murder She Wrote.

They've reduced the number of components allowed, increased the number of races in the season, and also introduced a new fuel this year and the first major changes to the cars since 2014 which has involved a lot of repackaging, all of which has made this situation almost inevitable.

The whole reason for this rule was to stop bigger teams throwing money at new engines every race (or even multiple times per race weekend) - with the budget cap rules in place they should just say use as many engines as you want within your budget and let them work it out for themselves, the same as they now do for how often they replace aero parts, floors etc.

Part of me thinks it's intentional because as farcical as it is on Saturday, the mixed up grids can make for more interesting races on Sunday.

RIC squeezes out of Q1

DEV beats LAT into Q2

22 now that De Vries has joined the table.