• The Autodromo is situated in the Royal Park of Monza, which is enclosed by high walls.

• No other track has hosted more Grands Prix than Monza. 2003 will be the 53rd Formula One event to take place here. Only one other Italian Grand Prix has been held at a different venue when Imola staged the race in 1980.

• A lap distance at Monza is 5.793 kilometres. The race comprises of 53 laps equating to a race distance of 306.720 km.

• WilliamsF1 has scored six victories at Monza, while BMW has secured two. The BMW WilliamsF1 Team last stormed to victory at the Autodromo when Juan Pablo Montoya claimed his maiden Formula One win in 2001.

• In 2002, the BMW WilliamsF1 Team set two records during qualifying at Monza. En route to his seventh pole position of the season, Juan Pablo Montoya achieved an average speed of 259.827 kph, breaking the seventeen year record set by Keke Rosberg in 1985 at Silverstone in a WilliamsF1 FW10. The BMW V10-cylinder secured a second benchmark when it exceeded 19,000 revolutions per minute for the first time.

• Last year, Juan Pablo started on pole while Ralf Schumacher started from third place on the grid behind his brother’s Ferrari.

• Both BMW WilliamsF1 Team drivers retired from the 2002 Italian Grand Prix with technical failures. Rubens Barrichello won for Ferrari and also set the standing lap record of 1:23.657m.

• The 14th round of the 2003 FIA Formula One World Championship starts at 14:00 hrs local time on 14th September 2003.