The ACM organised the Rallye Automobile Monte Carlo, and in 1928 applied to the Association Internationale des Automobiles Clubs Reconnus (AIACR), the international governing body of motorsport, to be upgraded from a regional French club to full national status. Their application was refused due to the lack of a major motorsport event held wholly within Monaco's boundaries. The rally could not be considered as it mostly used the roads of other European countries.
To attain full national status, Noghès proposed the creation of an automobile Grand Prix in the streets of Monte Carlo. He obtained the official sanction of Prince Louis II, and the support of Monegasque Grand Prix driver Louis Chiron. Chiron thought Monaco's topography well-suited to setting up a race track.
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Like many European races, the Monaco Grand Prix predates the current World Championship.
The principality's first Grand Prix was organised in 1929 by Antony Noghès, under the auspices of Prince Louis II, through the Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM), of which he was president.
By the start of the 1970s, efforts by Jackie Stewart saw several Formula One events cancelled because of safety concerns.
For the 1969 event, Armco barriers were placed at specific points for the first time in the circuit's history.
Before that, the circuit's conditions were (aside from the removal of people's production cars parked on the side of the road) virtually identical to everyday road use.
If a driver went off, he had a chance to crash into whatever was next to the track (buildings, trees, lamp posts, glass windows, and even a train station), and in Alberto Ascari's and Paul Hawkins's cases, the harbour water, because the concrete road the course used had no Armco to protect the drivers from going off the track and into the Mediterranean.
The circuit gained more Armco in specific points for the next two races, and by 1972, the circuit was almost completely Armco-lined.
The INSIDE Track - MONACO F1