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IMAGES /MOTORSPORT BLOXHAM S A great day for Ferrari and a revealing one for McLaren Even for non-Ferrari fans, a victory for the legendary team in the Italian Grand Prix is special. While we’ll have to see whether the SF-24’s latest upgrades have truly put it back in the frontrunning frame on more conventional circuits, the Monza event raised a few questions about McLaren, now that it arguably has Formula 1’s fastest car. On the cover, we’ve asked if McLaren got it wrong at Monza. We think the team did, but not chiefly because of the decision to go for a two-stop strategy instead of the one-stopper that Leclerc used so brilliantly to win. As Alex Kalinauckas investigates on page 11, allowing Oscar Piastri to attack Lando Norris on the opening lap not only risked contact, but allowed Leclerc into second and made it much harder for McLaren to control the race. Nobody likes team orders, and rapidly rising star Piastri is certainly no number two, but circumstances sometimes make them a sensible option. With the points gap between Norris and Max Verstappen still 62, the Briton could do with all the help he can get – that’s something he hasn’t always had so far, but McLaren may need to reconsider that position sooner rather than later. Ferrari’s excellent weekend got even better when late drama helped Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Robert Shwartzman beat Toyota in Austin’s World Endurance encounter (p30). Gary Watkins was there to see how they did it – and Aston Martin take a dominant LMGT3 win (p36). The Goodwood Revival takes place this weekend. We pick out the highlights (p50) and focus on two of historic racing’s 2024 successes. Kevin Turner Chief Editor kevin.turner@autosport.com NEVER MISS AN ISSUE Special deals for Autosport p64 Autosport editorial Motorsport Network Media UK Ltd 151 Wardour Street London, W1F 8WB @ E-mail autosport@ autosport.com Visit our website autosport.com Twitter twitter.com/ autosport Facebook facebook.com/ autosport Instagram instagram.com/ autosport YouTube youtube.com/ AUTOSPORTdotcom Cover images Sam Bloxham/JEP/Motorsport Images PIT & PADDOCK 4 Antonelli to make F1 jump with Mercedes 6 Bottas favourite for Sauber seat 8 New F3 car unveiled at Monza 11 Opinion: Alex Kalinauckas 12 Opinion: Tom Howard 13 Opinion: Jamie Klein RACE CENTRE 14 Italian GP report and analysis 30 WEC: Ferrari pips Toyota in Austin 36 Aston Martin dominates in LMGT3 40 World of Sport: IndyCar; Formula 2; Formula 3; Indy NXT; Porsche Supercup; European Rally Championship; MotoGP FEATURES 50 Goodwood Revival preview 54 The ‘new’ rise of pre-1963 GTs 56 The future of historics? CLUB AUTOSPORT 67 Motorsport UK abandons series plans 68 Slater to make GB3 debut at Donington 70 Inaugural StreetCar Festival at Bicester 72 Opinion: Stephen Lickorish 73 National reports: Kirkistown; Mallory Park 76 Cedric Bloch’s remarkable comeback FINISHING STRAIGHT 78 What’s on this week 80 From the archive: 2005 European GP 82 My favourite team-mate: Sam Tordoff Visit autosport.com for other ways to read Britain’s best motorsport weekly 5 SEPTEMBER 2024 AUTOSPORT.COM 3

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IMAGES

/MOTORSPORT

BLOXHAM

S

A great day for Ferrari and a revealing one for McLaren

Even for non-Ferrari fans, a victory for the legendary team in the Italian Grand Prix is special. While we’ll have to see whether the SF-24’s latest upgrades have truly put it back in the frontrunning frame on more conventional circuits, the Monza event raised a few questions about McLaren, now that it arguably has Formula 1’s fastest car.

On the cover, we’ve asked if McLaren got it wrong at Monza. We think the team did, but not chiefly because of the decision to go for a two-stop strategy instead of the one-stopper that Leclerc used so brilliantly to win. As Alex Kalinauckas investigates on page 11, allowing Oscar Piastri to attack Lando Norris on the opening lap not only risked contact, but allowed Leclerc into second and made it much harder for McLaren to control the race.

Nobody likes team orders, and rapidly rising star Piastri is certainly no number two, but circumstances sometimes make them a sensible option. With the points gap between Norris and Max Verstappen still 62, the Briton could do with all the help he can get – that’s something he hasn’t always had so far, but McLaren may need to reconsider that position sooner rather than later.

Ferrari’s excellent weekend got even better when late drama helped Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Robert Shwartzman beat Toyota in Austin’s World Endurance encounter (p30). Gary Watkins was there to see how they did it – and Aston Martin take a dominant LMGT3 win (p36).

The Goodwood Revival takes place this weekend. We pick out the highlights (p50) and focus on two of historic racing’s 2024 successes.

Kevin Turner Chief Editor kevin.turner@autosport.com

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Cover images Sam Bloxham/JEP/Motorsport Images

PIT & PADDOCK 4 Antonelli to make F1 jump with Mercedes 6 Bottas favourite for Sauber seat 8 New F3 car unveiled at Monza 11 Opinion: Alex Kalinauckas 12 Opinion: Tom Howard 13 Opinion: Jamie Klein

RACE CENTRE 14 Italian GP report and analysis 30 WEC: Ferrari pips Toyota in Austin 36 Aston Martin dominates in LMGT3 40 World of Sport: IndyCar; Formula 2;

Formula 3; Indy NXT; Porsche Supercup; European Rally Championship; MotoGP

FEATURES 50 Goodwood Revival preview 54 The ‘new’ rise of pre-1963 GTs 56 The future of historics?

CLUB AUTOSPORT 67 Motorsport UK abandons series plans 68 Slater to make GB3 debut at Donington 70 Inaugural StreetCar Festival at Bicester 72 Opinion: Stephen Lickorish 73 National reports: Kirkistown; Mallory Park 76 Cedric Bloch’s remarkable comeback

FINISHING STRAIGHT 78 What’s on this week 80 From the archive: 2005 European GP 82 My favourite team-mate: Sam Tordoff

Visit autosport.com for other ways to read Britain’s best motorsport weekly

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