| Type: | F1 |
| Country: | Italy |
| Grand Prix: | Italian |
| Details Ref: | [1] |
| Previous Round: | 2018 Belgian Grand Prix |
| Next Round: | 2018 Singapore Grand Prix |
| Image-Size: | 250px |
| Date: | 2 September |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Official Name: | Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2018 |
| Race No: | 14 |
| Season No: | 21 |
| Location: | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza Monza, Italy |
| Course: | Permanent racing facility |
| Course Mi: | 3.600 |
| Course Km: | 5.793 |
| Distance Laps: | 53 |
| Distance Mi: | 190.587 |
| Distance Km: | 306.720 |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Pole Driver: | Kimi Räikkönen |
| Pole Team: | Ferrari |
| Pole Time: | 1:19.119 |
| Pole Country: | FIN |
| Fast Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
| Fast Team: | Mercedes |
| Fast Time: | 1:22.497 |
| Fast Lap: | 30 |
| First Driver: | Lewis Hamilton |
| First Team: | Mercedes |
| First Country: | GBR |
| Second Driver: | Kimi Räikkönen |
| Second Team: | Ferrari |
| Second Country: | FIN |
| Third Driver: | Valtteri Bottas |
| Third Team: | Mercedes |
| Third Country: | FIN |
The 2018 Italian Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Gran Premio Heineken d'Italia 2018) was a Formula One motor race held on 2 September 2018 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy. The race was the fourteenth round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 88th running of the Italian Grand Prix and the 83rd time the race was held at Monza.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a 17-point lead over Sebastian Vettel in the Drivers' Championship. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes led Ferrari by 15 points.Kimi Räikkönen took the fastest pole position in Formula 1 history with a time of 1:19.119, breaking the record set by Rubens Barrichello in 2004. Räikkönen's previous pole was at the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix.
| Driver | Constructor | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | ||||||
| 1 | 7 | data-sort-value="RAI" | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:20.722 | 1:19.846 | 1:19.119 | 1 |
| 2 | 5 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:20.542 | 1:19.629 | 1:19.280 | 2 |
| 3 | 44 | data-sort-value="HAM" | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:20.810 | 1:19.798 | 1:19.294 | 3 |
| 4 | 77 | data-sort-value="BOT" | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:21.381 | 1:20.427 | 1:19.656 | 4 |
| 5 | 33 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:21.381 | 1:20.333 | 1:20.615 | 5 |
| 6 | 8 | data-sort-value="GRO" | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 1:21.887 | 1:21.239 | 1:20.936 | 6 |
| 7 | 55 | data-sort-value="SAI" | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 1:21.732 | 1:21.552 | 1:21.041 | 7 |
| 8 | 31 | data-sort-value="OCO" | Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 1:21.570 | 1:21.315 | 1:21.099 | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | data-sort-value="GAS" | Pierre Gasly | 1:21.834 | 1:21.667 | 1:21.350 | 9 | |
| 10 | 18 | data-sort-value="STR" | Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 1:21.838 | 1:21.494 | 1:21.627 | 10 |
| 11 | 20 | data-sort-value="MAG" | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 1:21.783 | 1:21.669 | 11 | |
| 12 | 35 | data-sort-value="SIR" | Sergey Sirotkin | Williams-Mercedes | 1:21.813 | 1:21.732 | 12 | |
| 13 | 14 | data-sort-value="ALO" | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Renault | 1:21.850 | 1:22.568 | 13 | |
| 14 | 27 | data-sort-value="HUL" | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:21.801 | No time | 20 | |
| 15 | 3 | data-sort-value="RIC" | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 1:21.280 | No time | 19 | |
| 16 | 11 | data-sort-value="PER" | Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 1:21.888 | 14 | ||
| 17 | 16 | data-sort-value="LEC" | Charles Leclerc | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:21.889 | 15 | ||
| 18 | 28 | data-sort-value="HAR" | Brendon Hartley | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 1:21.934 | 16 | ||
| 19 | 9 | data-sort-value="ERI" | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 1:22.048 | 18 | ||
| 20 | 2 | data-sort-value="VAN" | McLaren-Renault | 1:22.085 | 17 | |||
| 107% time 1:26.179 | ||||||||
| Source:[2] | ||||||||
The race was won by Lewis Hamilton after a battle with Kimi Räikkönen, Hamilton caught and passed Räikkönen with 9 laps remaining. On the opening lap Hamilton and Vettel collided causing Vettel to spin off. Despite Vettel's complaints, the stewards deemed it just a racing incident. Vettel would later fight back to 4th place, behind Valtteri Bottas in third. Max Verstappen was penalised 5 seconds after forcing Bottas off the track after a pit stop and was classified 5th. Sergey Sirotkin, driving for Williams, scored his only Formula 1 championship point, after Romain Grosjean was disqualified from 6th place after Renault successfully lodged a protest due to his Haas carrying an illegal floor,[3] thus ensuring that for the first time ever in Formula One, all drivers who entered and finished every race in the season scored at least a point.[4]
| Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44 | data-sort-value="HAM" |  Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 53 | 1:16:54.484 | 3 | 25 | |
| 2 | 7 | data-sort-value="RAI" |  Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 53 | +8.705 | 1 | 18 | |
| 3 | 77 | data-sort-value="BOT" | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 53 | +14.066 | 4 | 15 | |
| 4 | 5 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 53 | +16.151 | 2 | 12 | |
| 5 | 33 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 53 | +18.208 | 5 | 10 | |
| 6 | 31 | data-sort-value="OCO" |  Esteban Ocon | Force India-Mercedes | 53 | +57.761 | 8 | 8 | |
| 7 | 11 | data-sort-value="PER" |  Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 53 | +58.678 | 14 | 6 | |
| 8 | 55 | data-sort-value="SAI" |  Carlos Sainz Jr. | Renault | 53 | +1:18.140 | 7 | 4 | |
| 9 | 18 | data-sort-value="STR" |  Lance Stroll | Williams-Mercedes | 52 | +1 lap | 10 | 2 | |
| 10 | 35 | data-sort-value="SIR" |  Sergey Sirotkin | Williams-Mercedes | 52 | +1 lap | 12 | 1 | |
| 11 | 16 | data-sort-value="LEC" | Charles Leclerc | Sauber-Ferrari | 52 | +1 lap | 15 | ||
| 12 | 2 | data-sort-value="VAN" | McLaren-Renault | 52 | +1 lap | 17 | |||
| 13 | 27 | data-sort-value="HUL" | Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 52 | +1 lap | 20 | ||
| 14 | 10 | data-sort-value="GAS" | Pierre Gasly | Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda | 52 | +1 lap | 9 | ||
| 15 | 9 | data-sort-value="ERI" | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 52 | +1 lap | 18 | ||
| 16 | 20 | data-sort-value="MAG" | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 52 | +1 lap | 11 | ||
| data-sort-value="17" | Ret | 3 | data-sort-value="RIC" | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 23 | Clutch | 19 | |
| data-sort-value="18" | Ret | 14 | data-sort-value="ALO" | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Renault | 9 | Electrics | 13 | |
| data-sort-value="19" | Ret | 28 | data-sort-value="HAR" | Brendon Hartley | 0 | Collision | 16 | ||
| data-sort-value="20" | DSQ | 8 | data-sort-value="GRO" | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 53 | Illegal floor | 6 | |
| Source:[5] | |||||||||
| Driver | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data-sort-value="HAM" | Lewis Hamilton | 256 | |
| 2 | data-sort-value="VET" | Sebastian Vettel | 226 | |
| 3 | data-sort-value="RAI" | Kimi Räikkönen | 164 | |
| 4 | data-sort-value="BOT" | Valtteri Bottas | 159 | |
| 5 | data-sort-value="VER" | Max Verstappen | 130 | |
| Source:[6] | ||||
| Constructor | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercedes | 415 | ||
| 2 |  Ferrari | 390 | ||
| 3 |  Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | 248 | ||
| 4 | Renault | 86 | ||
| 5 |  Haas-Ferrari | 76 | ||
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