No F1 thread?

[jamcg]

Reading f1 drivers opinions on the announcement of racing returning to Zandvoort- looks like another Monaco, with qualifying a balls out impressive effort and the race a game of following the leader

[Mito Man]

It sounds like a suitable replacement for Barcelona then

[jamcg]

Ferrari need a new strategist urgently now, it’s getting silly, could probably do with a new driver aswell......

[Orange Cola]

That was awful, how did they screw up so much?!

[Mito Man]

It’s turned into the usual tyre saving snooze fest now.

[McSwede]

It’s turned into the usual tyre saving snooze fest now.

Indeed. Monaco is just shit, I don't care how historic it is.

[Mito Man]

They should give them formula 3 cars for this race.

Bloody rain didn’t arrive either.

[JLv3.0]

I know I'm not really supposed to post in this thread as I'm not an F1 fan, but a question for the more mature (old) forum members - has there EVER been a good Monaco F1? It just seems impossible given the circuit restrictions.

[McSwede]

I know I'm not really supposed to post in this thread as I'm not an F1 fan, but a question for the more mature (old) forum members - has there EVER been a good Monaco F1? It just seems impossible given the circuit restrictions.

Indeed. Qualifying is the race in reality. Sadly the "race" itself is just brisk following.

[Mito Man]

It’s not been brisk recently either.
Last year Ricciardo won with a 160 bhp deficit and driving defensively half the race. The first half of the race was tyre saving iirc.
This year was 60 laps of Hamilton moaning and tyre saving.

[Carlos]

Chuck a bit of rain in the mix and there were some great races, notably Panis win in the 90s

ETA a quick Google suggests that's was 23yrs ago

[Mito Man]

I think I found it more boring than usual as I saw the old F1 cars racing yesterday

Still had tinnitus when I woke up this morning

[NotoriousREV]

I was there and it was epic. We chose to go to Monaco to because of the experience. The racing is usually shit, so I knew we wouldn’t miss a great one (watching and following a race is much better on TV) but the atmosphere was great and we had awesome seats directly opposite the Mercedes and Ferrari garages.

Who knew that Monaco was basically a bunch of tunnels and cliffs with a few building precariously balanced on the edges?

[Zonda_]

I know I'm not really supposed to post in this thread as I'm not an F1 fan, but a question for the more mature (old) forum members - has there EVER been a good Monaco F1? It just seems impossible given the circuit restrictions.

The footage I've seen of races form the 60s was good as the cars were so much smaller and could pass, they also had none of this namby pamby health and safety nonsense so cars would regularly end up in the harbour!

[Mito Man]

They’re quite bit now

[mik]

Very bit.

[Gavin]

Chuck a bit of rain in the mix and there were some great races, notably Panis win in the 90s

ETA a quick Google suggests that's was 23yrs ago

But from memory that was only exciting as people kept breaking down or crashing so there were a few changes to the lead?

Last year was mildy interesting as Max came from the back (unlike young LeClerc yesterday).

[duncs500]

I was there and it was epic. We chose to go to Monaco to because of the experience. The racing is usually shit, so I knew we wouldn’t miss a great one (watching and following a race is much better on TV) but the atmosphere was great and we had awesome seats directly opposite the Mercedes and Ferrari garages.

Who knew that Monaco was basically a bunch of tunnels and cliffs with a few building precariously balanced on the edges?

Photos welcome.

Always a shit race, but I'd still love to go.

[NotoriousREV]

Some photos (some are multi-photo, click through to see them all):

[NotoriousREV]

Video of the 1st lap from our POV: