Lewis Hamilton led from start to finish to win the Italian GP. The only challenges Hamilton faced was from Felipe Massa at the very start of the race and then from Sergio Perez towards the end who was gaining on the McLaren. Fernando Alonso finished third and, despite Hamilton's victory, was the big winner as Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber failed to finish.
The start of the race saw Massa overtake Button and almost get the better of Hamilton, but the Ferrari had to settle for second. Alonso had moved from tenth to seventh whilst Webber had dropped back to 14th and Nico Rosberg fell to 12th.
Alonso's charge began from the start and moved into sixth after overtaking Kimi Raikkonen on the second lap. Vettel moved into fourth after overtaking Michael Schumacher on lap four, that was followed by Alonso also overtaking the Mercedes three laps later. The first driver to go off the track was Bruno Senna after he was forced off by Paul Di Resta, Senna then re-entered the track rather dangerously and almost crashed into Webber.
Lap nine saw Jean-Eric Vergne lose control all of a sudden and spin off onto the grass and was subsequently out of the race. Fortunately, despite Vergne taking off into the air, the Frenchman suffered no injury. Two laps later, Webber overtook Di Resta to claim tenth.
Lap-18 was the first real taste of how quick Perez was when he overtook Raikkonen into sixth, it wasn't all good news for Sauber on that lap as Kamui Kobayashi was overtaken by Webber to claim eighth. A lap later and Button had finally managed to get the better of Massa to regain second place, it happened to coincide with Ferrari losing their telemetry on their cars.
There was nearly drama on lap-21 when Alonso and Vettel pitted together, it looked like Alonso had been released unsafely into Vettel's path, but replays showed it was much safer than it looked and no action was needed to be taken. Their battle wasn't over and Alonso tried going around the outside to overtake him, but the German was having none of it and forced the Spaniard onto the grass. Alonso was clearly unhappy but managed to get the overtake on lap-29.
Vettel was hit with a drive through penalty for putting Alonso onto the grass on lap-32. Two laps later, Button suffered a mechanical failure and had to park his car onto the grass. Vettel performed his drive through penalty on lap-35 and came out in ninth.
Lap-36 saw Perez overtake Raikkonen once again before the Finn repaid the compliment, Perez finally made the move stick a lap later to finish fourth. Vettel managed to overtake Webber on lap-38 with Rosberg also managing to overtake Raikkonen to gain fifth.
Ferrari tactics were played on lap-40 when Massa was told to 'look after his tyres' which incidentally allowed Alonso to move into seconds. Once the overtake had been completed, Massa was surprisingly told to speed up once again. Perez managed to overtake Massa four laps later to take third away from the second Ferrari.
It took two laps for the charging Perez to hunt down Alonso to take second, but there wasn't enough laps for Perez to completely catch Hamilton. Lap-48 saw Vettel suffer another mechanical failure where his engine was on the verge of blowing up, forcing the Red Bull to be parked on the grass. Three laps later and Webber span out of control and suffered some damage, meaning he had to nurse the car back to the garage before subsequently retiring. Nico Hulkenberg finished his miserable weekend by retiring on lap-52. Race result:
1.Hamilton (McLaren), 2.Perez (Sauber), 3.Alonso (Ferrari), 4.Massa (Ferrari), 5.Raikkonen (Lotus), 6.Schumacher (Mercedes), 7.Rosberg (Mercedes), 8.Di Resta (Force India), 9.Kobayashi (Sauber), 10.Senna (Williams), 11.Maldonado (Williams), 12.Ricciardo (Toro Rosso), 13.D'Ambrosio (Lotus), 14.Kovalainen (Caterham), 15.Petrov (Caterham), 16.Pic (Marussia), 17.Glock (Marussia), 18. De La Rosa (HRT), 19.Karthikeyan (HRT) DNF: Vergne (Toro Rosso), Button (McLaren), Vettel (Red Bull), Webber (Red Bull), Hulkenberg (Force India)
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