Charles ler held off the threat of McLaren in a grand stand finish at the Italian Grand Prix s do Charles ler held off the charge of Oscar piastri to claim a fairy tale Italian Grand priest victory in front of the tyos Lando Norris rounded out the podium while Max for stappen finished sixth for the second race in a row Norris started on pole and for the second race in a row there was a different name leading at the end of lap one piastri surged around the outside of the delog chicane catching his team made off guard while ler followed him through on the corner exit as the pack settled down piastri stretched out his lead over ler to three seconds while Norris closed down the Gap to the Ferrari driver incrementally before pitting to trigger the undercut on lap 15 there was a hairy moment for the Brit on the entry to the pit Lane Norris locked up as he attempted to slow down his MCL 38 machine colliding with a Ballard on the right hand side of the track fortunately he did not breach the speed limit while it was a close call Norris undercut tactic worked when lerk responded along with Lewis Hamilton on the following lap he emerged behind the rear wing of the McLaren driver piastri followed the trailing duo in on lap 17 and retained the lead with the Williams of Alex Albin sandwich between himself and his team