What F1 teams do well at Italian Grand Prix with Ferrari successful at Monza

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Formula 1 has seen an array of teams and engine manufacturers win the Italian Grand Prix since first visiting Monza in 1950, so F1 Oversteer looks into its most successful.

Monza held the final round of the inaugural Formula 1 world championship in 1950. It even saw an Italian driver win their home race driving with an Italian team as Alfa Romeo legend Giuseppe Farina lifted the maiden drivers’ title against Juan Manuel Angio and Luigi Fagioli.

But while Alfa Romeo and Farina started their history with the Italian Grand Prix strongly, it proved to be the only time that the team and driver won their home race. Niki Lauda would later win the Italian Grand Prix for Brabham in 1978 using an engine by Alfa Romeo, though.

Alfa Romeo won the first F1 Italian GP with Giuseppe Farina in 1950

Wins for Italian drivers at their home race has often proven to be scarce through the history of the Italian Grand Prix. But Italian teams have regularly won at Monza, with Ferrari sealing more victories at the Italian Grand Prix with 19 to date than any other Formula 1 squad has.

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Brabham also registered multiple wins at Monza and even became the only team to win the Italian Grand Prix not held at the Temple of Speed. Nelson Piquet driving a Ford-engined car secured Brabham glory as Imola held its only Italian Grand Prix so far with the 1980 running.

Ferrari are the most successful F1 team at the Italian GP

But no Formula 1 team can rival the success that Ferrari have managed at their home event, with the Scuderia winning the Italian Grand Prix 20 times to date. Alberto Ascari secured the first Prancing Horse victory at Monza in 1951, and repeated his run to the top a season later.

Success has come in patches for Ferrari on their home turf, with the Scuderia enduring one particularly dry stretch from 1980 to 1995 with just one victory at Monza in that time. They have also won at home just twice since Fernando Alonso won the 2010 Italian GP for Ferrari.

Charles Leclerc is the most recent Ferrari driver to win an Italian Grand Prix after topping the Monza podium in 2019 and later in 2024. The Monegasque enjoyed back-to-back wins after sealing his first P1 finish in F1 at the 2019 Belgian Grand Prix in Leclerc’s first year for Ferrari.

Ferrari are the most successful engine manufacturer at the Italian GP

Thanks largely to being the most successful Formula 1 team at the Italian Grand Prix and the Scuderia also using their own engines, the Maranello outfit have also seen their power units register the most wins at the race. But Sebastian Vettel won the 2008 edition for Toro Rosso.

The Scuderia supplied Toro Rosso with their Ferrari 056 engine over the 2008 season, which powered Vettel to his first pole position and win in Formula 1 at the Italian Grand Prix. After eclipsing Heikki Kovalainen by 0.076s in qualifying, he weathered the rain to win by 12.512s.

Vettel’s 2008 Italian Grand Prix win for Toro Rosso is also still the only time that a Formula 1 team has won a race with a Ferrari engine other than the Scuderia. While the Faenza outfit when called AlphaTauri also gave Honda one of the Japanese giant’s Italian GP wins in 2020.

Red Bull GmbH changed Toro Rosso’s name to AlphaTauri in 2020 and saw Pierre Gasly earn his first Grand Prix victory at that year’s Italian GP. Honda has also had success at the Italian GP with its engines since 1967, but the most recent have come badged as Red Bull engines.

Similarly, Ford tased great success at the Italian Grand Prix during the 1960s and 1970s with engines they paid Cosworth to build. Mercedes also secured multiple wins at Monza whilst in partnership with Ilmor before later taking over the engine manufacturer entirely from 2005.