Hamilton shares the Monza record of five Italy wins with fellow seven-time title-winner Michael Schumacher, whose first home win 30 years ago, in his opening season with Ferrari, is being commemorated with a special livery and team kit. Ferrari's British driver Lewis Hamilton walks at the Red Bull Ring race track in Spielberg, Austria on June 25, 2026, ahead of the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix. (Photo by ERWIN SCHERIAU / APA / AFP)Lewis Hamilton will seek to boost his hopes of an unprecedented eighth drivers' world championship with a record sixth Italian Grand Prix win on Sunday when he races on Ferrari's home tarmac.As he bids to reduce local hero Kimi Antonelli's 59-point advantage - the Italian having claimed six wins for Mercedes - the 41-year-old seven-time champion has been given encouraging news.Ferrari plan to introduce an updated power unit while Antonelli, 20, faces a grid penalty for taking a new engine.Hamilton shares the Monza record of five Italy wins with fellow seven-time title-winner Michael Schumacher, whose first home win 30 years ago, in his opening season with Ferrari, is being commemorated with a special livery and team kit.The nostalgic twist will only add to an emotional atmosphere as Italy's favourite sports team battle the tifosi's new curly-haired hero, Antonelli, who just happens to come from Ferrari's homeland of Emilia-Romagna, at the historic...
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