Top ten pictures from the 2018 Italian Grand Prix

Ten of the best pictures which tell the story of the 2018 Italian Grand Prix weekend.

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Practice began on a very wet track.

Lando Norris

Among those in action was Lando Norris. McLaren took note of how convincingly he swapped lap times with Fernando Alonso, called him in after nine laps and, two days later, offered him a drive for 2019.

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Marcus Ericsson

The track was largely dry by the time second practice started but a DRS failure caused a violent crash for Marcus Ericsson, who fortunately walked away.

Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen let his bullishness get the better of him in the race.

Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen

Ferrari locked out the front row of the grid on Saturday but you’d struggled to tell it from the facial expressions of Kimi Raikkonen, who’d just set the fastest lap Formula 1 has ever seen, or Sebastian Vettel, who snapped “speak later” at his team after being told he’d qualified second.

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Start

While the Ferrari drivers tried to keep Lewis Hamilton back at the start, Brendon Hartley’s race had already ended.

Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas

Verstappen was in no mood to give Valtteri Bottas racing room and was penalised five seconds for this clash.

Sergey Sirotkin

When Romain Grosjean was thrown out of the race it handed Sergey Sirotkin his first F1 point.

Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen

Race-winning passes for the lead are rare things in F1, but Hamilton overtook Raikkonen to deny Ferrari a home victory.

Lewis Hamilton

Not all of the crowd were delighted by Lewis Hamilton’s record-equalling fifth Italian Grand Prix win in seven races, but he didn’t care.