Italy analysis – Rosberg pays the price for errors

While Lewis Hamilton took the plaudits at Monza, team mate and championship leader Nico Rosberg was left kicking himself after a braking error at the first chicane dropped him out of the lead and handed the race to his title rival.

Thus, as was the case in Belgium, a minor error had major consequences, though Rosberg did at least follow Hamilton home to record Mercedes’ seventh one-two of the season