In 1900, Umberto I, king of Italy, was assassinated at Monza by anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
You can feel the history at Monza and that's what makes it so special.
Fisichella, strangely, was not the centre of attention as the F1 circus gathered at Monza on Thursday.
We are more likely to get it at a circuit like Monza where reliability is stretched more.
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Ferrari's test at Monza the week after next is set to become their most intensive of recent years.
With victory in Spa duly achieved, Hamilton's plans for a repeat took a serious blow on Saturday at Monza.
"Michael will be a super assistant to Jean Todt, " Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said at Monza on Sunday.
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Even while car manufacturers continually find new ways to ratchet up performance, Monza has remained faithful to its classic design.
"For the last few days, I've been living a dream, " Fisichella mused upon his arrival at the legendary Monza track.
Four years later Monza witnessed one of the closest finishes in Formula One history with five cars being separated by 0.61 seconds.
Both have won on fast tracks like Italy's Monza and slower, highly technical tracks such as the street circuit in Monte Carlo.
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One of the greatest drives ever seen at Monza wasn't a win but a third place finish by Scotland's Jim Clark in 1967.
The FIA president, who won a High Court case against the News of the World, is in Monza for the Italian Grand Prix.
Laid out in 1922 on the grounds of an old royal hunting forest outside Milan, Monza is the bucolic antidote to Indianapolis or Monaco.
Brambilla photographed the Italian Formula One Grand Prix in Monza, and sampled images from the Scuderia Ferrari archives, race broadcasts and film clips.
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The teams spent their time on Friday analysing the set-ups they will need at the unique Monza track, the fastest on the F1 calendar.
The sponsorship deal includes 15 races this season starting in Malaysia, and historic circuits such as Silverstone in the UK and Monza in Italy.
The technical challenges that Monza presents have never diminished the excitement or quality of the racing there -- not least Moss's first victory in 1956.
Rumours in F1 suggest the crash test failure could delay the debut of the car further until the Italian Grand Prix at Monza in September.
But the device has its own inherent drag, and the balance between running it and not running it is finer at Monza than anywhere else.
McLaren surprised everyone by running with a conventional rear wing in first practice as opposed to a shallower, lower model more suited to Monza's low-downforce track.
However, he spent the following seasons on loan to Avellino and the Belgians Eupen before heading to Italian third-tier outfit Monza for the first half of this term.
Speed that only Monza, the world's fastest racetrack, can produce.
The F-duct normally improves straight-line speed but at Monza it is helping to improve cornering speed while the flatter, Monza-spec wing actually makes the car quicker on the straights.
"I really have a skill where I am able to put a previous disappointment behind me, " Hamilton said, referring to the Monza race, which was won by German Sebastian Vettel.
Formula One's night debut in Singapore is next up, followed by Japan, China, and then the conclusion in Brazil, and Hamilton says he has already put the Monza race behind him.
Adding further intrigue, incidentally, BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica revealed in Monza that Ferrari had also held talks with him about filling in for Massa but that discussions had gone no further.
Schumacher missed testing at Monza in Italy in the run-up to Montreal and Brazilian Bruno Junqueira - who missed the Williams berth in a drive-off with Jenson Button - stood in for him.
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