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The oldest person to ever start a Formula 1 race was Louis Chiron, a local, who competed in the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix. He was 55 years old and went on to finish sixth in his Lancia, five laps down on the winner Maurice Trintignant.
Monaco holds the all-time record in the modern F1 era for the least number of cars to finish a race – only four cars saw the chequered flag at Monaco in both 1966 and 1996. Olivier Panis in a Ligier was the unlikely and popular winner of 1996’s race of attrition.
Monaco is the only race on the current F1 calendar that does not have to pay a yearly sanctioning fee to the owners of Formula 1.
Due to a combination of its low speed laps, high concentration requirements and the reguar intervention of a Safety Car, Monaco is the only current race which doesn’t run to the 305km distance which every other Grand Prix on the calendar must comply to.
The hairpin is the slowest corner on the F1 calendar, taken at just 48km/h.
With an average of 809,000 people watching, the 2018 ESPN telecast was the most-viewed Formula 1 race on cable since the 1995 Italian Grand Prix, which also aired on ESPN and averaged 876,000 viewers.
In awarding its first Gold medal for motorsport to Prince Rainier III, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) characterised the Monaco Grand Prix as contributing "an exceptional location of glamour and prestige" to motorsport
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