as the sun started to set in Italy the heat was on the drivers to produce the perfect lap Kevin Magnuson locked up at turn one before later losing the rear of his car and clouting the wall at turn seven what's the situation I'm in the wall he wasn't the only driver struggling in the conditions estan oon rumbled through the gravel at turn two as did Serio Perez in the dying moments of the session Williams's new boy Franco colapinto also found the limits as he locked up into the first chicane Monza has been resurfaced for 2024 and the newly laid tarmac will likely have an impact on the drivers the higher grip should see faster lap times possibly at the expense of increased Tire graining come race day with track temperature expected to exceed 50° C George Russell was back in the hot seat after Andrea Kimmy antonetti's run in first practice the Brit session was delayed as he waited for his W5 to be fixed after an Elli's session ending crash and once out on track the Mercedes man had issues of his own I've got something um moving around in my cockpit okay copy that uh where abouts in the cockpit is it I think it's a nut which is just um going to my seat I think it's okay teammate Louis Hamilton is a five time winner here he will race in front of the Monza crowd for the first time since being announced as a Ferrari driver at the start of the season the seven time champ was also struggling for comfort that see so hot mate can't CR despite the heat Hamilton would top the session with an impressive 1 minute 20738 ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris and Ferrari's Carlos signs the Spaniard will turn 30 on Sunday as he races in red for the final time in front of the toosi Norris's dominant win from Poland zort ensured he was the first McLaren driver to do so since Hilton did the same here in 2012 the victory allowed Norris to eat into max a staff's lead at the top of the standings and with McLaren's recent upgrades Norris will have his eyes on a third victory of the Season at a track where he came so close to winning in 2021 when he was beaten to the flag by then teammate Daniel Ricardo Norris ended the session just 3,000th of a second of Hamilton session topping time and teammate Oscar piastri was himself just oneth off in P4 so Hamilton leads the way from Norris signs p as and charir P6 for Russell ahead of hulkenberg Ricardo Alonzo and straw P1 for vry botas from Magnuson Alex Alvin Max EST stappen and Sergio Perez Yuki codo is 16th from colapinto P gazley estan oon and Joe guu