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.

TIME MACHINE

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 SHORTEST

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.