2015 Italian Grand Prix grid

46 comments on “2015 Italian Grand Prix grid”

1. 

   Jules Winfield (@jules-winfield)
   5th September 2015, 20:37

   Whoever managed to work this out deserves a medal.
   1. 

      Kribana (@krichelle)
      5th September 2015, 20:41

      How does Ricciardo start ahead of Verstappen if he has a 35 grid place penalty? Unless that 20 place on Verstappen means that he starts from the pitlane, which would mean he starts last..
      1. 

         Dave (@)
         5th September 2015, 21:58

         It’s the order the penalties are applied
      2. 

         Adam Blocker (@blockwall2)
         5th September 2015, 23:26

         It is because Verstappen did not set a time and therefore was not within the 107% time. A driver who finishes outside 107% time cannot start ahead of someone who does.
   2. 

      HK (@me4me)
      5th September 2015, 20:42

      @jules-winfield, as a token of appreciation ;)
2. 

   Kribana (@krichelle)
   5th September 2015, 20:42

   *50 grid place penalty
   1. 

      ColdFly F1 (@)
      5th September 2015, 23:56

      take 4 and we ‘call it quits’!
3. 

   Panagiotis (@papalotis)
   5th September 2015, 20:43

   top 14 mercedes – ferrari engines, row 8 honda, last 2 rows renault nough said
   1. 

      UnitedKingdomRacing (@unitedkingdomracing)
      5th September 2015, 22:32

      Your right, that’s astonishing.
4. 

   Deej92 (@deej92)
   5th September 2015, 20:54

   This is getting beyond now.
5. 

   SonyJunkie (@sonyjunkie)
   5th September 2015, 20:57

   Button qualifys 16th, gets a five place grid penalty and starts 15th, welcome to Formula 1!!

   *stolen from the web!!…lol
   1. 

      Selbbin (@selbbin)
      6th September 2015, 5:25

      LOL. Love it.
6. 

   jaapgrolleman (@jaapgrolleman)
   5th September 2015, 20:58

   This is getting silly. So Button and Alonso qualified in 16th and 17th, take penalties and will start 15th and 16th.
   1. 

      bull mello (@bullmello)
      5th September 2015, 23:03

      @jaapgrolleman – They had a better penalty strategy? ;-)
      1. 

         Shrieker (@shrieker)
         5th September 2015, 23:53

         hahahaha
7. 

   kanan
   5th September 2015, 21:00

   Well, it might still change if Mercedes decide to change Hamilton’s engine. It is still a possibility.
   1. 

      UnitedKingdomRacing (@unitedkingdomracing)
      5th September 2015, 22:31

      Why should they do that?
      1. 

         EF1
         6th September 2015, 5:16

         He didn’t say they should he said they might. Here’s a link to a story confirming that they are concerned about it as they are not yet sure what happened to Nico’s engine. http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12472/9980506/mercedes-still-have-big-question-mark-over-new-engine-at-monza

         As previous ‘kanan’ noted, not saying it will happen for sure, but you can’t rule it out either.
   2. 

      Selbbin (@selbbin)
      6th September 2015, 5:26

      nah, they’d just stick in an old one like they did Rosberg and avoid a penalty.
      1. 

         David Not Coulthard (@davidnotcoulthard)
         6th September 2015, 6:36

         @selbbin And leave Ferrari to start from a front-row lock-out?
      2. 

         kanan
         6th September 2015, 6:48

         That’s violation of parc ferme. Which means starting from pit lane.
8. 

   stefano (@alfa145)
   5th September 2015, 21:00

   I knew this from the beginning. It’ll get funnier and funnier till the end of the championship.
9. 

   Dirk (@dirksen)
   5th September 2015, 21:06

   What’s the point of a 50-place penalty with a grid of 20 and he’s not even starting last?
   1. 

      kanan
      5th September 2015, 21:11

      Funniest part is the fact that he’s not even starting last :D
10. 

    Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
    5th September 2015, 21:09

    Honda better start announcing their engine changes and component replacements 1 week before each grand prix, because that’s probably a better way to qualy further up the road than actually building a good engine.

    With all the others taking more and more penalties every weekend, they’ll be the first guys to take them and they just move ahead after everyone else is penalized.
    1. 

       JSilva
       6th September 2015, 3:32

       This idea looks like the best penalty strategy, as Honda could even try a new engine every single race AND qualy further up. Actually, if they don´t care much about the costs, by doing that they would not need to worry about reliability and and could burn an engine per race by “overclocking” the engine´s power:-)
11. 

    skylien (@skylien)
    5th September 2015, 21:17

    Wow Manor on row 7 with 6 cars behind them.
12. 

    David-A (@david-a)
    5th September 2015, 21:24

    How many asterisks can we get to at Singapore?
    1. 

       Khaiwong
       6th September 2015, 2:00

       Why don’t we use other special characters instead of counting the number of asterisks to find out what is happening with the driver’s grid position, @keithcollantine? 😀
13. 

    Fred Schechter (@freds4hb)
    5th September 2015, 21:24

    I think I may be starting 28th in my Prius. I just got a note from the FIA.
    These rules are so confusing.
    1. 

       skylien (@skylien)
       5th September 2015, 21:44

       Sorry but you have 0.2l too much with the newest spec Prius ;)
14. 

    Michael Brown
    5th September 2015, 21:35

    Some drivers are getting so many grid penalties they’ll have to start from their home countries.
15. 

    maarten.f1 (@)
    5th September 2015, 21:36

    It’s funny how Monza is the one circuit where Manor has its highest start position ever.
    1. 

       UnitedKingdomRacing (@unitedkingdomracing)
       5th September 2015, 22:30

       Absolutly.
    2. 

       Adam Blocker (@blockwall2)
       5th September 2015, 23:28

       Absolutely, although Jules Bianchi started 12th at Silverstone last year on merit.

       I wonder where they will be after lap one.
16. 

    Dave (@)
    5th September 2015, 22:00

    With the number of penalties invloved, why not decide the grid with a handful of dice?
    1. 

       Dave (@)
       5th September 2015, 22:00

       /invloved/involved/
17. 

    Philip (@philipgb)
    5th September 2015, 22:18

    I’m surprised teams didn’t go for Bernies reverse grid idea. Take an engine penalty, hold a few people up and let yourself be promoted to the front.
18. 

    Nick (@npf1)
    5th September 2015, 22:24

    Honestly, I’m not against the grid penalties for using too many PE components, but the sheer numbers make the rules laughable. I never minded the limiting of engine use when it was first introduced, nor when it moved from 1 engine per weekend to multiple weekends to a handful of engines. But the penalty system needs a revamp. It’s easy to say ‘well, Renault and Honda need to do a better job’, but at this point a time penalty would almost make more sense than a grid penalty in their cases.

    As for Verstappen getting a drive through because his team sent him off with a engine cover fixed with off-brand duct tape, I’m sure 50% of the field has had penalties dished out to them that were pure team errors, but alas.
    1. 

       Dave (@)
       5th September 2015, 23:41

       The way the grid penalties are accumulating, if it was time penalties instead, then it’d make taking part in the race kinda pointless, both figuratively and literally.
       1. 

          Iestyn Davies (@fastiesty)
          6th September 2015, 1:42

          Yep, I count 158 grid place penalties here, which is ridiculous in itself, but Button’s time penalty at Montreal made his race pointless, we’d probably see safety cars triggered eventually to gain that sort of lost time back.
19. 

    AldoH
    5th September 2015, 22:33

    The dude takes 50-place penalty and is not the last one on the grid.
    This is beyond ridiculous.
20. 

    Illusive (@illusive)
    6th September 2015, 7:32

    Are Ricciardo and Verstappen going to start from pitlane?
21. 

    Rylan Ziegler (@torretto1)
    6th September 2015, 8:54

    At this rate by the time we get to Abuse Dhabi, every single car will have penalties and the mess that causes will somehow probably result in a Manor on pole. As it is now this is just an incomprehensible mess and only going to get worse every grand prix from now on, especially with more and more teams experimenting with the “multiple engine changes during one weekend to ‘stockpile’ multiple PU components” loophole
    1. 

       Rylan Ziegler (@torretto1)
       6th September 2015, 8:56

       Of course I meant to say Abu Dhabi. Autocorrect has foiled me again!
22. 

    Peter
    6th September 2015, 9:53

    Getting back to basics, this is all supposed to be about racing and competition and entertainment. How on earth did we get to this crazy mess?

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