POWER RANKINGS: Who impressed our judges at the Italian Grand Prix?

Kimi Antonelli claimed one of the great Formula 1 victories at the Italian Grand Prix last weekend. But who else impressed our Power Rankings judges at Monza? Check out the latest scores and overall leaderboard below...

How it works

• Our five-judge panel assess each driver after every Grand Prix and score them out of 10 according to their performance across the weekend – taking machinery out of the equation
• Our experts’ scores are then averaged out to produce a race score – with those scores then tallied up across the season on our overall Power Rankings Leaderboard (at the bottom of the page)

Having been consigned to P19 on the grid after power unit changes ahead of the weekend, Antonelli's goal in theory was focused on limiting the damage to his drivers' standings points lead. Instead, the Mercedes driver put in one of the all-time great drives to claim an unlikely victory in front of his home fans. Scything his way through the order, Antonelli was already battling team mate George Russell for the lead prior to the halfway point before heading to the pits under a Virtual Safety Car. With fresher tyres, Antonelli took chunks out of Russell while recovering positions, passing his title rival four laps from the end and becoming the first Italian to win their home race in 60 years after a drive for the ages. For that he scores a perfect 10 from our judges.

If Antonelli's victory on Sunday was the performance of the season, Pierre Gasly's Qualifying heroics the day before were not far behind. The Frenchman and Alpine used the Mercedes power unit to full effect and executed their flying laps perfectly, with Gasly topping both Q1 and the crucial Q3 session to claim his first F1 pole position. Staying there was always going to be an impossible task during the 53-lap race, and Gasly eventually slipped down to P7 but remained comfortably best of the rest at a venue where he scored his only F1 victory six years ago.

Despite lacking the straight-line speed of Mercedes drivers Antonelli and Russell, Max Verstappen certainly proved to be a thorn in their sides. The Red Bull driver moved from P5 into P2 during the early running before taking the lead and heading the pack for three laps. Eventually passed by both Russell and Antonelli, Verstappen initially stayed in touch, and like Antonelli made a stop under the VSC, before charging back up to P3 for his third podium in four races.

Arvid Lindblad once again went under the radar as the Racing Bulls driver finished a lonely P8 in Italy to claim more valuable points in the teams' standings. Lindblad had started ninth and benefitted from Charles Leclerc's crash, while Franco Colapinto's off-track moment at the Lesmos gifted the F1 rookie another spot. It means Lindblad has scored points seven times in the last eight races, ensuring Racing Bulls remain ahead of Alpine in the teams' standings.

Russell entered the weekend knowing it was a golden opportunity to start clawing back the 59-point deficit to Antonelli in the drivers' standings, with his team mate set to serve a grid penalty. Instead, the Briton left Monza seven points further back having not really put a foot wrong. The Mercedes man just missed out on pole position as his final flying lap was somewhat hampered by Verstappen, but Russell soon found himself in the lead of the race. Battery management and the power of the slipstream meant he was never able to pull away from Antonelli as the pair traded places in a brilliant battle. Fitted with the hard tyres also meant Russell was never seriously considered for a pit stop under the VSC like Antonelli on the medium. Despite his best efforts and a solid weekend performance, Russell once again lost out to Antonelli in arguably the most decisive hammer blow of the season.

After a difficult weekend in Zandvoort where he failed to match McLaren team mate and race winner Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri was back close to his best in Monza. The Australian took third on the grid, but blocking Liam Lawson in Q2 at the first chicane meant Piastri was hit with a three-place grid penalty. He soon began to make progress, though, and found himself in a tussle with Lewis Hamilton during the first half of the race for P4. Having got the better of the Ferrari driver, Piastri's attention in the final laps turned towards his team mate, with Norris just moving ahead on the final tour as the pair finished fourth and fifth.

After back-to-back wins, Norris was brought back to reality at Monza as McLaren failed to showcase race-winning form despite having a Mercedes power unit. Norris failed to string his final Qualifying lap together, which left the reigning World Champion only P8 on the grid, and meant he spent much of the race following others in the slipstream. After deposing Gasly and Hamilton, Norris battled fiercely with Piastri in the closing stages, eventually completing the move on the final lap on the run to the Ascari Chicane after a decent recovery drive.

It was a weekend of being so close yet so far for Gabriel Bortoleto and Audi. The Brazilian failed to reach the final part of Qualifying by just 0.001s, although Antonelli's grid drop meant Bortoleto did start inside the top 10 after all. In the race, the Audi driver didn't have quite enough pace to match the Racing Bulls and Alpines, with Bortoleto missing out on the points by seven seconds.

In just his second race back in F1 with Racing Bulls, Tsunoda reached the points in P10 having climbed up the order from P15 on the grid, potentially putting himself back in the driver market window for next season. The Japanese driver will get another run out in Madrid after Red Bull confirmed Liam Lawson would stay with the senior squad in place of the injured Isack Hadjar.

Despite having the Mercedes power unit, Williams always expected to struggle at Monza and so it proved. Even so, Carlos Sainz managed to battle his way to P13, beating Lawson's Red Bull and both upgraded Haas cars, finishing just 16 seconds away from the points after a solid drive.

Missing out

Just missing out on a top-10 place in our latest Power Rankings list are Franco Colapinto and Ollie Bearman. Colapinto managed to grab P9 for Alpine having run as high as third at one stage before going off the track, while Bearman utilised new upgrades on his Haas to finish P15.