Dominant Hamilton wins at Monza

Lewis Hamilton took a dominant victory in the Italian Grand Prix to beat Sauber's Sergio Perez and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. From pole position, Hamilton lost the lead only briefly during the pit-stop period and was never seriously under threat. Perez, who qualified 12th, took advantage of a different strategy and free choice of tyres at the start to climb through the field and pass Alonso with seven laps to go. McLaren's Jenson Button and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel both rired. Alonso, who drove an excellent race to climb up from 10th on the grid, has consolidated his championship lead and is now 37 points ahead of Hamilton, who moved up from fifth to second. "It was pretty trouble free, I don't think I had any problems," said Hamilton. "The guys did a great job, [and I] got a great start for once, so very happy with that. "Very unfortunate for Jenson because we were one-two at the time and it would have been fantastic to have been first and second." Alonso said: "Absolutely perfect Sunday for us. Obviously the win was out of reach after starting 10th. "If we cannot win, podium is next target and all the predictions was never on the podium finish, so much better than I expected. Jenson and the two Red Bulls were out of the race, so [it's the] perfect Sunday for me." Vettel's retirement, with his second alternator failure of the weekend, dropped him to fourth, two points behind Hamilton and one behind Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen. Red Bull's Mark Webber, who retired after a troubled race, is fifth, 47 points behind Alonso, with Button sixth, 78 points adrift and realistically out of contention.