335,000 spectators are planned for the Italian Grand Prix despite the moment-no of the Cavallino who in 2025 has not yet won a race. Leclerc hopes to repeat the victories of 2019 and 2024: “There is no two without three, we will give 2000 %”. Vasseur: “I explained to Hamilton that running to Monza with Ferrari is something unique”
Ferrari is a unique case in the worldbecause the passion for Maranello’s machines is so strong that nothing and nobody can question it. Not even a disastrous season like the current one: No Grand Prix won in 2025 by Leclerc and Hamiltonabysmal detachments from the McLaren (but not only from them) both in proof and in the race and a sense of frustration repeatedly manifested also by the pilots themselves for the difficulties of the machine. The reality is sad, But the passion is the same to the stars and the people of the Red is preparing for the invasion of the Monza racetrack.
Record numbers
335,000 spectators are expected during the weekendmost of whom will be there only to support the Ferraris dreaming of a triumph of a Maranello car, to repeat the miracle of last year when Charles Leclerc made the Ferrari driver crazy by beating the Mc Laren who seemed in control of the race making a pit stop less than the opponents. Charles has a particular feeling with Monza where he also won in 2019, At his first year driving a Maranello car. He knows that it will be very difficult to cancel the gap from Plastri and Norris and moreover comes from the unfortunate match of Zandvoort where he had to raise the white flag after contact with Antonelli of which he was not responsible. Yet he believes in the company and he will put it entirely: “I discovered that even in Italian as in French it is said ‘There is no two without three‘And I hope that the three can already arrive this year – said Leclerc to the microphones of Sky During the event at Palazzo Reale in Milan – We will give 2000% to try to repay this incredible passion that every year this splendid audience gives us “.
The five times of Hamilton
The previous ones in Monza are Very favorable also for Lewis Hamilton. The Englishman who was penalized in Zandvoort and will have to relegate from five positions compared to the position he will earn on the starting grid, triumphed five times in the Italian Grand Prix At the helm of Mc Laren and Mercedes and shares the record of victories with Michael Schumacher who, however, always got it at the helm of Ferrari. The Englishman Wednesday at Palazzo Reale in Milan was submerged by the affection of the fans together with Leclerc and commented on: “Being a Ferrari pilot is the most special thing ever ,Seeing all that red tide on the podium is truly incredible, as is incredible this square. In Monza we run with the least possible aerodynamic load, it is like dancing on the tips, Ascari the feeling is to float “.
Vasseur’s optimism
Despite the results for Monza a pinch of optimism there is also in the Principal Fred Vasseur team: “I said to prepare this Grand Prix like all the others and to try not to consider it special. Then, however, one cannot fail to be influenced by the only passion that is here. When you are on the track you cannot fail to notice the stands And to see all the enthusiasm of the people. I spoke to Hamilton just to make him understand what it means to run to Italybut until you live it on your skin, you can’t understand it. I told him that a pilot can also run twenty -five times in Monza, but the first with Ferrari is something different and unique “.
