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It was a wild and wet Friday and Saturday at Monza. Torrential rain, a mass mopping-out of garages, and the field turned on its head in qualifying as some teams coped better than others – and some drivers took the opportunity to excel.
Here are some of the moments from those two days, through the camera lenses of the photographers at the circuit. We’re lucky that Bridgestone and almost all of the F1 teams allow us to re-publish their photography on this site – and the weather at Monza brought out the best from the snappers as well as the drivers.
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This is the sort of post we’d love to do more of, if only it didn’t take so much time to put together (and if only we weren’t currently afflicted by a WordPress bug that stops the individual photo pages displaying properly – you can click on the photo thumbnails, but not on the captions below them). Let us know in the comments if it’s the sort of thing you’d like to see more of.
Nico Rosberg and his crew walk the circuit early on Friday
Adrian Sutil looks determined
David Coulthard lights up the gathering gloom
Sir Frank Williams supervises his team garage
Sebastien Bourdais throws up spray in Friday practice
Kazuki Nakajima ponders life in his wing mirror
A Honda is sent out into the worsening Friday weather
Data screens tell Force India that cars everywhere are struggling
Rubens Barrichello needed all his wet-weather skills
There’s a storm over Ron Dennis’ head – as usual
Honda give up on the day and wheel Jenson Button in
A thoughtful Lewis Hamilton would rather be driving
Nick Heidfeld waits for the weather to change
Timo Glock endures the boredom of a driver who can’t drive
The clean-up crew salvages the McLaren garage
Williams were among the teams that needed to mop out
An early start to Saturday for Toyota
Mark Webber bends Bernie’s ear
Fernando Alonso gets some laps in while the rain is light
Robert Kubica looks racey – but only managed 11th
Kimi Raikkonen leads a train as the rain picks up
Nelson Piquet and Mark Webber go while the going is good
Felipe Massa qualified best among the championship contenders
Giancarlo Fisichella posted Force India’s best qualifying position
Lewis Hamilton picked the wrong tyres for the wet conditions
Jarno Trulli shrugs off the rain on his way to seventh
Heikki Kovalainen salvaged McLaren’s pride with second
Timo Glock sends a plume of spray skywards
Sebastian Vettel celebrates his first – but probably not last – pole position
