HISTORIC MONACO GRAND PRIX
“ HE DRIVES LIKE CHIRON ”
First on the agenda was a race Séries А1 named after one of the greatest drivers between the two World Wars , none other than Monaco ’ s own Louis Chiron . This Séries featured Pre-war Grand Prix cars and Voiturettes .
Louis Chiron won the Monaco Grand Prix in 1931 and is still the only Monegasque driver to have won his home grand prix . Louis Chiron was so popular in Czechoslovakia , where he won three consecutive Grand Prix races , that even today his name lives on in the saying , “ He drives like Chiron ”. With a career that spanned thirty-five years , from the late 1920s until the 1950s , Louis Chiron is still the oldest driver to ever race in Formula One . He participated in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix when he was 58 years old .
After retiring from racing , Chiron maintained an executive role with the organizers of the Monaco Grand Prix , who honoured him with a statue on the Grand Prix course and renamed the Swimming Pool corner after him . Because he achieved the greatest number of podium finishes in Bugattis , the 1999 Bugatti Chiron concept car and the 2016 Bugatti Chiron were named in his honour .
The A2 Séries , representing front-engined cars older than 1961 , was named after Argentine racing driver Juan Manuel Fangio , nicknamed " Maestro ", who won in Monaco in 1950 and 1957 . His record for the most wins in the world championship ( five ) was broken only in 2003 , when Michael Schumacher became a six-time world champion .
THE SIXTIES SWING BACK TO LIFE WITH THE MR . MONACO SERIES
Séries B saw rear-engine F1 Grand Prix cars from 1961 to 1965 speed through the Principality and was named after none other than Mr . Monaco . Despite not passing his driving test until the age of 24 and entering the world of motorsport only a year later , British driver Graham Hill would go on to become one of the greatest drivers of his generation . Hill is most celebrated for being the only driver ever to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport . He won the Monaco Grand Prix an astounding five times in the 1960s , which earned him the nickname Mr . Monaco . The 1969 Monaco Grand Prix victory was Graham Hill ’ s very last F1 win .
Next up was Séries C , focussed on frontengine racing cars from 1952 to 1957 and named after Italian driver Vittorio Marzotto , who won the 1952 Monaco Grand Prix in a
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A monument to Louis Chiron on the Grand Prix course
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Claudia Hürtgen getting ready to start
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