ITALIAN GP - TOP SPEED PER LAP

Hamilton reached 365km/h in the race: the highest speed ever recorded this season! 🚀
(Previously: 356km/h at Spa)

✅ It’s also the highest Monza top speed for any ground-effect car:
‘22: 360 SAI
‘23: 359 HAM
‘24: 363 HUL

ALB reached 369km/h in Las Vegas last year: we might break the 370km/h barrier there! 🤯

He reached 13040rpm in 8th gear, well over 1000rpm above the usual upshift rpm (~11700rpm).

This combination of very high temperature (due to the slipstream/hot air and high ICE friction at high rpm) and forces on the piston (due to the high ‘centrifugal’ forces) is critical: the engine can fail after just a few seconds in these conditions, as happened to GAS last year.

Notice that LEC reached 355km/h WITHOUT DRS, on L2 due to a slipstream.

Gasly’s top speed was terrible: just 345km/h with DRS and 334km/h without it.