MONACO GRAND PRIX

CIRCUIT DE MONACO - MONTE CARLO

Friday 26

FP1: 13:30 - 14:30 / FP2: 17:00 - 18:00

Saturday 27

FP3: 12:30 - 13:30 / QUALI: 16:00 - 17:00

Sunday 28

RACE: 15:00

26 - 28 may

MONACO GRAND PRIX

CIRCUIT DE MONACO - MONTE CARLO

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Friday 26

FP1: 13:30 - 14:30 /
FP2: 17:00 - 18:00

Saturday 27

FP3: 12:30 - 13:30 /
QUALI: 16:00 - 17:00

Sunday 28

RACE: 15:00

Monaco GP: all you need to know

Monaco Grand Prix: those words are music to the ears of race fans. Monaco is associated with glamour, fashion, yachts, the Casino, but most of all, it is linked to F1 and has been since 1950, the first year of the Formula 1 World Championship as we know it.

The race has been held 68 times to date. The paradox of the most famous motor race in the world is that Formula 1 would not be as successful without it and yet, if it was to be proposed as a new race today, it would be dismissed out of hand on logistical and safety grounds.

Formula 1 and Montecarlo in history

Before the arrival of Charles Leclerc, the only Monegasque to have raced in Formula 1 was Louis Chiron. He was best known for his amazing antics waving the chequered flag, after he was appointed race director in the Sixties.

This is the only race that doesn’t have a proper podium as the top three drivers all get taken along to the Royal Box, at the side of the track, from where the ruling Grimaldi family has always watched the race and handed out the prizes.

Coming to this race also means experiencing the delights of the Cote d’Azur, which, in late May, is a really great place to be by the sea.

CIRCUIT DE MONACO

HISTORIC TRACK

The first race on this track was held in 1929, when Antony Noghes and his friends in the Automobile Club de Monaco decided to organise a street race in the Principality. In 1950, it became a round of the Formula 1 World Championship and since 1955, it has been a permanent fixture on the calendar, with the exception of 2020 when many race were cancelled because of the pandemic.

The Monaco circuit effectively sees Formula 1 travel back in time, as the track has changed very little from the original 1950 layout. However, the level of active and passive safety has vastly improved, to a point far removed from the days when a couple of drivers ended up in the harbour!

The Monaco GP is the only round on the F1 calendar with a race distance of less than the stipulated minimum of 305 kilometres. At 3.337 kilometres in length, it is the shortest and slowest of the season, with the race held over 78 laps, a distance of 260.286 km. To describe the difficulty of steering an F1 car around Monaco, Nelson Piquet described it as being like riding a bicycle around your living room.

FIRST GRAND PRIX
1950
NUMBER OF LAPS
78
CIRCUIT LENGTH
3.337 km
RACE DISTANCE
260.286 km
LAP RECORD
1:12.909 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

WEEKEND TYRE CHOICE

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C4
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C5
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results MONACO GRAND PRIX

1Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:12.386
2Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri Honda RBPT1:12.642
3Alexander Albon Williams Mercedes1:12.706
4Carlos Sainz Ferrari1:12.717
5Lance Stroll Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:12.722
6George Russell Mercedes1:12.769
7Lewis Hamilton Mercedes1:12.872
8Lando Norris McLaren Mercedes1:12.877
9Fernando Alonso Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:12.886
10Charles Leclerc Ferrari1:12.912
15Nyck De Vries AlphaTauri Honda RBPT1:13.054
1Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:11.908
2Charles Leclerc Ferrari1:12.103
3Fernando Alonso Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:12.107
4George Russell Mercedes1:12.151
5Lewis Hamilton Mercedes1:12.156
6Pierre Gasly Alpine Renault1:12.169
7Carlos Sainz Ferrari1:12.210
8Esteban Ocon Alpine Renault1:12.248
9Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri Honda RBPT1:12.249
10Lando Norris McLaren Mercedes1:12.377
12Nyck De Vries AlphaTauri Honda RBPT1:12.428
1Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:11.365
2Fernando Alonso Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes1:11.449
3Charles Leclerc Ferrari1:11.471
4Esteban Ocon Alpine Renault1:11.553
5Carlos Sainz Ferrari1:11.630
6Lewis Hamilton Mercedes1:11.725
7Pierre Gasly Alpine Renault1:11.933
8George Russell Mercedes1:11.964
9Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri Honda RBPT1:12.082
10Lando Norris McLaren Mercedes1:12.254
1Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT1:48:51.980
2Fernando Alonso Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes+27.921s
3Esteban Ocon Alpine Renault+36.990s
4Lewis Hamilton Mercedes+39.062s
5George Russell Mercedes+56.284s
6Charles Leclerc Ferrari+61.890s
7Pierre Gasly Alpine Renault+62.362s
8Carlos Sainz Ferrari+63.391s
9Lando Norris McLaren Mercedes+1 lap
10Oscar Piastri McLaren Mercedes+1 lap
12Nyck De Vries AlphaTauri Honda RBPT+1 lap
15Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri Honda RBPT+2 laps

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