Features

  • McLaren on a roll

    Karun Chandhok analyses McLaren's return to form and looks at the delicate situation in the championship with seven races remaining

  • Memories of Monza

    Life Through a Lens F1 photographer Mark Sutton picks his six favourite photos from the Italian Grand Prix

  • Ciao Europe

    The Final Stint: A round-up of the good, the bad and the downright ugly from the 2012 Italian Grand Prix as the European season comes to a close

  • 'I absolutely love this place'

    Read what the drivers and team members had to say after Lewis Hamilton's victory in the Italian Grand Prix

  • Monza magic

    ESPNF1 previews this weekend's Italian Grand Prix at Monza, with six drivers now eyeing the championship as the European season draws to a close

  • Monza: The magic of a name

    Maurice Hamilton on why Monza, with its traffic jams and general chaos, is still one of the highlights of the season

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History

The Italian Grand Prix is one of the longest running events on the current F1 calendar. The first event was held in September 1921 at Brescia and was won by Jules Goux. Work began to build a permanent circuit in the Royal Park in Monza, and just six months later the circuit was finished. Monza became the third permanent circuit in the world after Indianapolis and Brooklands; its impressive banked design offered drivers a lap of over ten kilometres.

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