The Monegasque driver Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) will start on pole this Sunday in the Italian Grand Prix race, the sixteenth round of the Formula 1 World Championship, a position from which it will try to take advantage of penalties from its main rivals, just like the ‘Spanish. Fernando Alonso (Alpine), who will start sixth.

With a time of 1:20.161, which helped him beat the Dutchman in the time tableby Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and Spanish carlos sainz (Ferrari), Leclerc secured the first starting place, the seventeenth of his life, for an atypical race where half of the grid will have to serve penalties.

The World Cup leader will drop to seventh place, just behind an Alonso whose lap was canceled for exceeding track limits and who finished tenth in Q3, while the Madrid native will change power units and will have to start from the bottom of the grid , like the Briton Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) and the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri).

Facing the ‘tifosi’, Verstappen had no trouble setting the fastest time before the Ferrari in a Q1 which managed to defeat the Dutchman Nyck de Vries, replacing Williams with an Alexander Albon absent due to appendicitis.

German Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), in its last round at Monza, did not pass the round, nor did the Canadians Nicholas Latifi (Williams) and Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), the Dane Kevin Magnussen (Haas) and the German Mick Schumacher (Haas).

At the start of the second trimester, the reigning world champion He again set the first big time gap, but Sainz, with worn softs, posted a stratospheric time (1:20.878) that earned him the lead and became the man to beat in the third and final sleeve.

He improved his grade again at the start of the Q3, dropping it to 1:20.584, but Leclerc appeared there to refuse the assist and secure pole position for Sunday. On the front row he will be accompanied by the Briton George Russell (Mercedes), sixth this Saturday and benefiting from the sanctions of Verstappen -five places-, Sainz -at the bottom of the grid-, the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) -ten places- and Hamilton -bottom of the grill-.

British McLarens lando norris and the Australian Daniel Ricardo They will occupy the second row of the grid, just ahead of Frenchman Pierre Gasly and Alonso, who after aborting his first lap in Q3 saw his second attempt canceled after going beyond the limits of the track.