Italian Grand Prix Live

The Formula One Championship will hold the Italian Grand Prix coming up next month, the race dates from September 9^th through the 11^th. The event happens in Monza, Italy and this is the 13^th race of the season for the Formula One Championship. There are only six more races to go before the end of the series and the last event on the calendar was the Belgium Grand Prix, won by Red Bull Renault's Sebastian Vettel, and held on August 28^th. Hungary was before that, and Jenson Button won the race for McLaren Mercedes.

Sebastian Vettel from Germany is in first place with RBR Renault with 259 points and his teammate, Mark Webber is in second. Fernando Alonso with Ferrari is in third with 157 and Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, both from Britain and driving for McLaren-Mercedes are fourth and fifth. In the teams, Red Bull Racing Renault is in first, with McLaren in second and Ferrari in third. Sign up now and watch the Formula One Championship right from your computer or mobile device. You'll get instant access to Formula One streams from anywhere.

Posted: 10th September 2010

The Formula One Championship continues with the series heading on to Italy, for a race September 10^th, 11^th and 12^th. We just have five races left in the Championship after this weekend's race in Monza, with Singapore coming up next, and then Japan and Korea on the schedule after that. Brazil happens after that and the final race of the year is in Abu Dhabi. Click on the banners on this page to watch Formula One streams online. You'll get access to high quality video right from your computer via your internet connection.

Here are the details on the Monza race. It will take place at the Autodromo di Monza and it will be fifty three laps long for a total race distance of 306.720 kilometers. That's 5.793 kilometers per lap. The lap record was set in 2004 by Rubens Barrichello with a time of 1:21.046. Friday will see the free practice happen, with the first at 10:00 and the second practice at 14:00. The third practice is on Saturday, September 11^th, at 11:00 and then the qualifying will happen at 14:00. Sunday, September 12^th is the actual race which is at 14:00.

Lewis Hamilton is in first place in the driver's standings with 182 points with Mark Webber in second and Sebastian Vettel taking third with 151 points. Jenson Button is currently fourth, and Fernando Alonso takes the fifth spot. In the teams, RBR-Renault is first, with McLaren-Mercedes in second. Ferrari is in third and Mercedes GP takes fourth. Renault is in fifth. You can watch the Formula One Championship online right from your computer. Instant access to high quality video streams happens right away when you sign up.

The 2009 Italian Grand Prix comes to you live from the historic Monza track, where it has been run so many times over its more than half a century on the calender, and this year, it is September 11^th through the 13^th. The official name for the race, at least in the local languge, is the Gran Premio Santander d'Italia, and this race is famous for its long running history, having started earlier than nearly all of the Formula 1 races on the calender, having first ran around 1923, and run on the Monza circuit most of the time since then. This makes the Italian Grand Prix one of the most looked forward to racing events of the year.

The first race as part of the Formula One series was in 1950, and the race hasn't skipped a year since, making the Italian Grand Prix stand up and be counted with the British Grand Prix, which is the only other race that has done so. The Italian Grand Prix has also been the site of some of the most momentous occasions in Formula 1 history, being the last race won for Michael Shumacher before he announced his retirement from the sport and was replaced by Kimi Raikkonen, as well as for 21 year old driver Sebastian Vettel making history by becoming the youngest driver to win a Formula 1 race, at last year's Italian Grand Prix.

German driver Michael Shumacher stands at the top of the list of the Italian Grand Prix with the most wins by one, having won five different times between 1996 and 2006, the final year of racing for Schumacher. Nelson Piquet is also proudly on that list, being the only driver with four wins from the Italian GP, winning in 1980, 1983, 1986 and 1987. This list will continue to change and grow as we see more talent hit the Formula 1 racing field. Click on the banners to get your membership, if you haven't already and take part in the Italian Grand Prix live streams and video feeds from the track.

Other drivers of note, as far as multiple wins include Tazio Nuvolari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Ronnie Peteron, Alberto Ascari and Alain Prost, all with three wins each. Besides Schumacher, only a couple of drivers snagged wins in the late part of the 21^st century, including Ayrton Senna, winning in 1990 and 1992, Juan Pablo Montoya from Columbia in 2001 and 2005 as well as Brazilian driver Rubens Barichello, who took top podium positions in 2002 and 2004. Damon Hill from the UK also was able to take two wins for himself, the first in 1993, and the next the following year in 1994.

The Monza Circuit, or Autodromo Nazionale Monza is North of Milan in Italy, with three different tracks used for various races. The first is the GP track, 5.793 kilometers long, and then a junior track which is less than half of the length of the Grand Prix, as well as a rarely used 4.25 kilometers track that is in poor condition. The Italian Circuit boasts long straightaways, and allows drivers to increase to full throttle speeds allowing the open wheels to reach up to 372 km/h. It's fairly flat, has has a gradual climb from the second Lesmos, to the Variante Ascari. The track also, unfortunately, holds fame for having some of the most tragic events in the sport happen there, in the early years of Formula One, and is still even today criticized by drivers for lacking sufficient run-off areas.

The Monza circuit is asphalt and has thirty degree banking on the oval, which is characterized by only two turns. The official GP circuit has 11. and when you combine the two, there are nine. Rubens Barichello holds the lap record for the GP Track, having set it in 2004 with a time of 1:21.046, for constructor Ferrari, who also holds the most wins for the Italian Grand Prix at 18. The Italian Grand Prix is 53 laps long.

Last year's race was run on September 14^th at Monza, and was the fourteenth race of the season, being the same 53 laps that it is this year. Sebastian Vettel began the race in pole position, with Heikki Kovalainen right behind him out of the gate, and Red Bull driver Mark Webber in third. The first part of the race was under rain, which seemed to be okay with Vettel, pulling ahead of Kovalainen, and even extending his lead further when the rain stopped and the track began to dry. At that point, the current leader in the Driver's Championship had been Lewis Hamilton, but he finished this race in seventh position, still quite a feat after qualifying in fifteenth.

When it was all over Sebastian Vettel had won the title, as well as the prestige of youngest ever Formula One driver, and winning for his team, Toro Rosso, for their first time as well. Heikki Kovalainen was able to hold onto that second place spot throughout the race, and that's where he finished, while BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica finished third. Fernando Alons moved from eighth to finish in the top four, and even more surprising was Kubica who moved all the way up from eleventh to third. When the 2008 season was over Lewis Hamilton won the Driver's Championship, winning by one point over Felipe Massa, while Ferrari won the Constructor's Championship with a 21 point lead over Mclaren.

This year's race starts on Friday, September 11^th, with two practice sessions one in late morning, and one in the afternoon, while they get a third practice session then next day, and qualifying begins at 14:00. The race will be run on Sunday, September 13^th, 2009, starting at 14:00, local time. You won't want to miss this historic race, so get your membership now and you can watch the Italian Grand Prix live on streaming high quality video feeds that are always live from the track, as well as watch the entire 2009 Formula One Season live. See you at the race!