Last year Charles Leclerc made history becoming the only Monegasque driver to win his home race. The victory ended his run of bad luck at Monaco, which included crashes, retirements, and mechanical failures.
His team-mate, Lewis Hamilton may spoil the party as he looks to add a 4th Monaco trophy to his cabinet.
Racing engines first reverberated around the Principality in 1929 when the Automobile Club de Monaco organised a race for their members. The race was part of the calendar in the first year of the Formula 1 World Championship in 1950 and hasn’t been off it since 1955.
Converting the streets of Monte Carlo into an F1 trace takes some doing. Preparations begin six weeks before the race with around 250 construction workers assembling over 30 km of safety barriers. Around 3600 tyres are used in the barriers. It takes 3 weeks after the race to disassemble the barriers and grandstands for the city streets to return to normal.
Graham Hill was nicknamed ‘Mr Monaco’ after winning the race 5 times in the 1960s. But it is Ayrton Senna who still holds the record for the most wins with 6 – taking 5 consecutive victories between 1989 and 1993. Michael Schumacher has 5 wins on the streets of Monte Carlo, and Lewis Hamilton 3. Nelson Piquet described driving around Monaco as “like riding a bicycle around your living room.” The narrow, twisting track is quick to punish drivers. The 1996 race saw only 3 cars cross the finish line. Following a string of crashes and mechanical failures, Olivier Panis, who started in 14th place, took the win, it was Panis’s only win in F1.
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