Saturday practice session poses more questions than it answers, as pace-setter Mercedes give little away in terms of strategy for the remainder of the Monza weekend.
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F1 MD, Ross Brawn has revealed that the sport is pondering making Sprint races standalone events that would no longer decide the grid for the Grand Prix.
The Monza stewards have fined Aston Martin and Alpine following incidents during qualifying for the Sprint.
Valtteri Bottas will start Sunday's Italian Grand Prix from the back of the grid after the team opted to change his engine ahead of Sprint qualifying.
We had a difficult event last weekend, so it's encouraging that we could bounce back immediately and put ourselves in a good position to score well here at Monza.
Being in Q3 for the second race in a row is a very encouraging result and gives us a good position ahead of tomorrow's Sprint.
This result, with both drivers on the fourth row of the grid for the Sprint Qualifying tomorrow afternoon, is in line with what we expected going into this weekend.
With limited running, it's harder than normal to work out the performance gap between the three compounds.
Well done to Valtteri, a great lap and a well deserved pole position... even if the rule book says that comes tomorrow.
We've used a lot of the learnings from Silverstone, where we didn't fully maximise the format, to plan for this event.