MONACO
MONACO F1
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THE FACTS
THE FACTS
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The Shortest and Tightest Circuit on the F1 Calendar
The Monaco Grand Prix was on the calendar for the first year of the modern Formula 1 World Championship in 1950 and has been held every year without interruption since 1955. Well that was until 2022 when the race was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first time in 65 years that the Grand Prix could not be held.
Over the course of the 78 lap race, a driver will make almost 5000 gear changes!
Ayrton Senna famously burst onto the F1 scene with a storming performance in the rain-soaked 1984 race and holds the record for most wins at Monaco with six, including five consecutive victories between 1989-1993.
Circuit Facts
Length: 3.337 km
Race distance: 260.286 km
Laps: 78
Monaco has produced four native Formula One drivers - Louis Chiron, André Testut, Olivier Beretta, and Charles Leclerc.
Most wins (constructors) McLaren United Kingdom
it takes 50 engineers six weeks to turn 2.075 miles of road into a state of the art race circuit. In the process 1,100 tons of grandstands, 900 tons of pit garages are assembled. The only thing keeping the 750 horsepower race cars from flying into the yachts moored in the harbor, or the pricey real estate, is over 20 miles of temporary safety barrier.
The INSIDE Track - MONACO F1
An extraordinary amount of equipment is required to turn Monaco’s ordinary roads into a fully-fledged race circuit including 20,000 square metres of wire catch fencing, 3,600 tyres for tyre barriers.