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2023 Formula One World Championship
2023 Italian Grand Prix
Round 1
Monza Circuit
Monza, Italy
Sunday, 3 September 2023
Fernando Alonso will be looking to win the
Italian Grand Prix for the third time in his illustrarous career.
Most recent race
The Alfa Romeo driver came close to winning the Dutch Grand Prix on August 27 as he finished second having started fifth on the grid.
Therefore, Alonso picked up 19 points and his hopes of winning the Formula One world championship are still alive.
Formula One title ambitions
The two-time Formula One world champion is still placed third on the World Drivers' Championship standings having accumulated 168 points with nine races left.
Alonso is 171 points behind the Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT driver Max Verstappen who is placed at the top of the standings.
Why Alonso could win the 2023 Italian MotoGP
The accomplished racing driver will be returning to Italy where he won this race twice in 2007 and 2010
Having finished second at the recent Dutch Grand Prix, Alonso will be hoping to go one step further and win the Italian Grand Prix.
What did he say?
“It was FP1 or FP2, it was wet and in one of the out-laps I let a few cars go on the normal racing line and I found a lot of grip on the inside casually, by just letting people go,” Alonso said after the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix.
“So, I kept in my head, all the time, all the weekend, in case it was wet. “I was ready to try again and, to be honest, when we were on the grid, and the red lights were on for the start of the race, there were a lot of drops in the visor.
“So, that's the worst feeling you can have because you are ready to start the race on a slick tyre and on your visor, you see that it’s raining. So, you have no idea of the grip that you will find in Turn 1 braking, or Turn 3.”
2022 Italian Grand Prix results
Winner: Max Verstappen - Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Runner-Up: Charles Leclerc - Ferrari
Third-Place: George Russell - Mercedes
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