Carlos Sainz's Charge Through The Field In Monza | Italian Grand Prix

The grid, which has been altered quite substantially since qualifying finished due to the amounts of grid penalty places for those taking new engine parts. Carlos Sainz, he lines up alongside Mick Schumacher. It's lights out and away we go. Carlos Sainz up into 16th. Sainz and Pérez again desperately trying to make their way through. Only 15th and 16th at the moment. A little bit of puff of tyre smoke there. And there's almost contact there between Sergio Pérez and Carlos Sainz, making his way up from 18th on the grid. Carlos Sainz, he's now ahead of Kevin Magnussen. Currently P13, 1-3, Ocon next. There goes Carlos Sainz on the Aston Martin of Sebastian Vettel. 11th place now for Carlos Sainz, who is moving through the field very nicely indeed. Further ahead, there's a bit of a DRS train. There's one Aston Martin before the Parabolica, and there's one Aston Martin before the chicane, as Sainz makes up another place. Sainz is up to 10th. Carlos Sainz now has DRS on Joe Guagnou. He's going to try and make a move into the chicane. Joe's got to watch, and Carlos Sainz breezes his way through. Sainz gets past another driver here. This time it's Nick de Vries. Sainz is up to 8th. Sainz has got a bit more straight line speed than some, and as you can see, he is quickly closing down Fernando Alonso. And this is going to get a big round of applause from me to Fozy here, because Carlos Sainz is putting on something of a wonder show for Ferrari fans this afternoon. The man who started 18th on the grid is now up into 7th place. There you go, Sainz again. Lando Norris could be a little bit vulnerable into this chicane. There's a gap right down the inside, and Sainz says, Thank you very much, I will take that. And now he's up into the top 6. Carlos Sainz on Pierre Gasly. Sainz puts his Ferrari into the top 5, and there's a virtual safety car. Sainz comes through on Ricciardo. And you can hear how much the fans are loving Carlos Sainz's action this afternoon. Fourth place now. George Russell coming in. There's a nice gap to feed him into. Box, Carlos, box. He's confirmed the box, box, box. As Sainz is told to pit for Ferrari. So what is he going to be pitting on? And that looks like soft tyres to me. Sainz will now make his pit stop, which means George Russell moves back up into the podium places. It should be very, very fast from here on in, shouldn't it, Carlos Sainz? And he's out of the race. Oh, Fernando Alonso. There goes Carlos Sainz on Sergio Perez. Up into sixth place. As now Lewis Hamilton stops, and he goes for soft tyres too. Engine problem for Daniel Ricciardo. But he is now out of this race. Have we been told that the race will finish behind the safety car? No. It will be before you. Yeah. Strong showing there. Good job. Yeah, I think best race of the season, guys. That was fun. Yeah, it was. We deserved a podium there. How was the end of the race looking? On the front end for me? Like no safety car? It was close, I think. We were getting close. So he was struggling with thoughts. So I think it would be possible to get there again.