Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

Alonso wins Italian Grand Prix auto race

|
|
 
  
Published: Sept. 9, 2007 at 3:33 PM

MONZA, Italy, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Fernando Alonso was dominant Sunday in winning the Formula One Italian Grand Prix auto race at Monza, Italy.

The No. 1 McLaren driver crossed the finish line 6.062 seconds ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton for his fourth victory this season and 19th of his Formula One career.

The two-time world champion won on a day when the rookie Hamilton had no answer to Alonso’s relentless pace.

Alonso set a fastest lap of the day on Lap 12 to slightly edge away from the runner-up.

"A perfect weekend for me," Alonso said. "Sometimes everything seems to go in the right direction (and) to win here in Monza for the first time is a very special win."

Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa, and Nick Heidfeld finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively.

In the standings, first place Hamilton leads Alonso by three points, and Raikkonenby 18 heading into the Belgium Grand Prix next Sunday.

Topics: Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, Nick Heidfeld
© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Linsanity The Daytona 500 Cheerleaders of 2012
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
California would need a $68 billion bullet train to move all the environmental lawyers trying to...
"He said that he filmed the pair for twenty minutes and the couple 'didn't care that everyone in...
Real-life Waterworld, colonizing the oceans to free human progress from the choking grasp of regulation....
Your husband was killed in a plane crash on a private plane when a drunk passenger assaulted the...
Holocaust survivor's estate ordered to return golden Assyrian tablet he looted after WWII to the...
Photoshop these sons in service