GOTTA BE ALERT ON A STREET CIRCUIT! The Story of the Monaco Street Circuit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2022
- Last week, I did a video on the tracks that never changed their layouts, and a lot of people named Monaco as one of them, assuming it had never changed due to it being a street circuit.
But amazingly, it has. Most of it looks familiar, but the end section is where all the changes happened, but it's always interesting to see how F1's most glamorous and most famous venue came to be the venue it is today.
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Fun fact: in 1950 race on lap 1 a wave from the harbour flooded the Tabac corner and ~10 cars colided because of that...
Speaking of cars and the harbor, Alberto Ascari and another driver both found themselves in the water
i love that authentic 1950s corvette at 3:00 on the right hand side
I've spent the last eight years pretending it's not there.
Monaco is such a challenging circuit. It really shows who are the true greats of the sport. One quali lap that sticks in my mind is Roberto Moreno's lap in the Andrea Modena.
*Andrea Moda, the best team in F1 history
It may get removed in 2023
@@TheGrinch_ yey
I never give up on Monaco I only flash back 73 times and that’s it.
That lap in the 68 f1 car took me an hour.
I read somewhere that the drivers are racing more "against" the track than between themselves. With the quasi impossibility of overtaking, that's why the qualifying is super impressive and the race so depressing. And seeing the F1 chonkers we got this year, I don't think it's going to change much, except if Pirelli finds a way to make drivers pit 2 or 3 times.
Well, we saw in Bahrain how quickly the tyres degraded, and they use a step softer in Monaco IIRC
@@thestibblr6637 part of the reason for the degradation in Bahrain was the unusually colder temps (Pirelli brought the hardest compounds). The new tires don't grain up as much as the old ones, but it's the same issue that the colder temps mean the tires aren't quite "in the window" as much and thus wear out faster. And the Bahrain track surface is quite aggressive.
The first 2 races of the year, were a 2/3 stop race, depending on the team. Pirelli NAILED their mandate so far, and tires will always degrade but you can see now there on it lap after lap, we've also learned the tires don't respond to being protected.
Pirelli's mandate was 18" RIMs. 75 Miles on the hard down to 55 on the supers ( Do the math at just over half the circuits its a 2 stop race, with a good smattering of 3 stoppers, and a possible 1 stop come Austin which will be all front end limmited) So Pirelli nailed it so far, so long as nothing explodes this year and there are no major problems, well be off this topic of Pirelli producing exactly what there contracted to produce and for us to bash in complete ignorance. Okay the FIA didnt add exploding to the requirements that's all on Pirelli but the rest, you should be bitching at the FIA .
As for we saw in Bahrain how quickly the degraded, now that's not true either, look at the times drivers spent ENTIRE STINTS within a half-second lap time wise, the tires WORE OUT and do so in a predictable way so the drivers can push on lap after lap after lap. The cars are now ALL front limmited so the rears are these days highly protected
I still think, as much as the Fangio statue deserves to be there, there ought to be one to Graham Hill.
Yeah. Senna got the 6 wins but Graham will always be Mr Monaco.
Monaco is by far the race I look forward to the most. For me it's just the history that makes it magical and the racing is just a bonus.
another change that happened sometime in the 50s was the original start line was moved from between tabac and Gazometere to where it is now. excellent work sir
The Lotus 25/33 that Paul Hawkins drove into the harbour can been seen at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. It is presented as a work of modern art, and the car is magnificent!
Keep up the good work! You are in terms of tongue in cheek humor and 'being well prepared and knowlegble' a unique man. Please keep that mind!
Monaco has always been one of my favourite F1 races despite it usually being won on the Saturday.
The history and prestige and sheer concentration/balls it takes to stay on the road make it great IMO.
May get removed in 2023
Getting to know in great detail about a circuit is amazing. Thanks for the information
10:01 that 2004 race was a bizarre one - not one but *two* strange crashes in the tunnel that took out both Alonso and Schumacher. Funny how it happened twice in the same year!
Even though fighting on track is basically impossible, I find it much more boring to watch the cars on other tracks, like Silverstone for example. Not so much more (non-crash) fighting, but these modern boats look much more spectacular when they blast through Rivage or Tabac up to Rascasse.
I assume it’s going to look less spectacular with 2022’s porpoises having to stay extra far away from curbs xD
I'm looking forward to it even more because if the porpoising isn't solved, I'm looking forward to hearing of the Merc drivers complain that they've got a herniated disc. It all adds an extra element.
Don’t know how good an idea it would be, but with the World Cup coming up this year, a potential story time on A1GP? For what it’s worth I think it was a cool idea but not really implemented well
Another great video, your voice is soothing!
Surprised people think Monaco is the same as ever. It has changed several times in my time - this is my 24th full season. The biggest change in my time is the current pits complex and the accompanying extension of the entry into La Rascasse. Urban development in any city would see the roads change, as well. But then again, I'm a nerd, so I would know the history of things I like that closely. Monaco being so narrow, dangerous and unsuited to modern cars, plus the excess of wealth makes it very off putting for me, so it's not in my favourites list. I didn't miss it at all in 2020. I'm terrible at it in the games, which I put down to a mental block, preferring wider spaces to let rip with the car. Singapore and Baku are my preferred street circuits. I was disappointed to see Formula E switch to use the full circuit. The layout where what F1 viewers know as a service road became a downhill straight into a hairpin provided plenty of overtaking and made the series unique, I really liked it and want to run it on some platform or another. It made me like Monaco, that's how good it was! I'll miss it.
1982. Rain in the last few laps. Prost stuffing his Renault out of the chicane, Pironi's Ferrari sputtering out of fuel in the tunnel, Derek Daly's Williams missing a rear wing, and Riccardo Patrese spinning at the Leows Hairpin yet ending up as the winner.
That's why I pray for it to piss down at Monaco come race time.
I still think Chain Bear's whole "super qualifying" idea for Monaco would be fun.
I love it when F1 hits Monaco. And it doesn't matter that racing doesn't really happen much there; it's 'being' there; that's the thing - rather like a cricket match.
I think my favourite monoca race is 1982. What a finish.
It’s Monaco ‘and not moncoca
@@louisbeerreviews8964 whoops! Typo
Thanks man!
The biggest show in F1 was Senna going for it in Monaco qualifying.
although it has since its opening in 1927, im surprised by the lack of people mentioning the nurburgring, obv the GP circuits construction in the late 80s but the nords is famous for hardly changing.
Because he really doesn’t think the Nordschliefe is worthy, or at least overrated
@@dylanzrim3635 It's no longer the Grand Prix track, so you can't say it hasn't changed because they use a different track at the complex. (And the Grand prix track is the former south curve so the full layout has been irrevocably changed)
Hardly changing is still changing.
The FE race last Season in Monaco was great.
Fascinating storytelling Aidan, also while we’re on the topic I really hope the Monaco GP has finally done away with those shite trophy designs! 🤮
Yes! Somebody who agrees with me!! The Monaco GP needs a proper trophy. Not a track map on a plinth!
4:28, love the retro wheel camber.
I get the feeling it didn’t look like that at the start.
The best part of Monaco is that it's a third of the best day of the year for motorsports fans. Monaco GP, Indy 500, and Coke 600.
Actually Daytona 500 would be the big race in NASCAR. Odd it is now the first race of the year, a race at one or two tracks used to happen in California from sometime in the 1960's or early 1970's until the almost end 1980's until these tracks got either shut down or NASCAR moved from the track.
The only drawback to Monaco is the size of the current spec F1 cars.
Formula E race last year was epic.
awesome vidseo
Great video, loved it. I don't get the draw of Monaco though. Imola ftw, surely?
no constructive comment from me, just know that I love this channel!
I know most modern cars aren't optimised for Monaco. It makes me wonder why a tail end team doesn't sacrifice a few races' performance to make a car better suited to Monaco.
The fact that it wouldn't make it into the calendar nowadays is exactly why it's got to stay.
Brilliant video as always, but hope your arm is better
It’s all peeled now and is less sore but still some pain underneath. It’s getting there.
Any chance on an episode on the Mount Panorama circuit?
Maybe even the Old Vale Circuit, used before the Mountain
Road America (Elkhart Lake) has never changed its layout for cars. They did and a chicane at the kink but it’s only for motorcycles.
The people who own the track over the years have only made track a bit wider with more catch fences/safety barriers all for safety, added more pit lanes for bigger depth races, and made the aging tunnel for cars to enter the track wider when needed in either 2006 or 2016. This from a track made in 1955 so almost 67 years old.
The longest running pro series is SCCA Formula 500 Indy cars then CART/Indy Car running as Formula 500 from 1968 to 1976 until Indy and SCCA split and then CART from 1982 to 1998 when Indy Car Racing League took the name from its main race when it split CART running as its own league from 1998 onward as the Series that won the CART/Indy split from 1998 to 2005.
We need as many lerts as possible at monaco!
Monaco?! I cannot count the number of changes that spring to mind, and that is just the last 40 years. I had better watch the rest of the video now.
Most times 1/3rd of the best racing day of the year in the states. Monaco in the morning, Indy at noon, and Charlotte at night.
Damnit I'm second I think ut hello from east coast usa
1:05 AKA Paul Whitehouse \m/
And do yourself a favour and look up the history of original Monaco winner, William Grover-Williams. Fascinating stuff.
you're still missing Mosport!
You could cover a race Jimmy Broad ent was in.
Theres a fun little book about William grover Williams and the second world war called early one morning that you may enjoy
Thx for this one, Aidan!
How's the arm after the burns?
Still sore, but probably because it’s been peeling.
@@AidanMillward
Good riddance, Mate!
In my opinion, the best racing that has happened at the Monaco street circuit in the last 20 years was when the World Rally Championship used it as a Special Stage.
Monaco with the Current Modern Cars is Pointless.
It's more of a Commercial and Party for F1
Aiden.
Am I correct in saying that Monaco is the track that is the fastest to remove a car from?
6:40 Luigi Fagioli suffered a fatal crash in Monaco in 1952.
He died three weeks later. While Bandini was killed there and then.
@@AidanMillward correct re LF but Bandini died 3 days after his accident
@@Joe-wj7ku tbf tho that amount of burns he was as good as dead.
Seems to be a Mandela effect as some people say he died in the car.
how come they said all newer tracks have to have huge run off and be 12 meters wide but the old circuits dont
please do a storytime on william grover-williams and the conspiracies surrounding his spying/death!!!
Oh no, can't have a race without the instant gratification of an overtake on every lap. Nothing entertaining at all watching drivers be inch perfect lap after lap. /sarc
"Come on crash. DO SOMETHING!"
Yeah ppl forget cars are hard to drive fast
1982.
8 mins ago? What happened whats been cut and ive now missed forever
Haven’t touched it.
Unpopular opinion it is my favourite track im just too poor to go nowadays
I am all for entertaining races and sowhat, but it's the absurdity of Monaco that gives its appeal. I mean why would you complain about 1 race of 23 having no overtakes on track... but that comes from my biased opinion because it's the gp that made me so attracted to F1 as a kid (when my dad woke me up at sunday mornings for the race i would instantly jump out of bed if he said it was Monaco this time lol)
and by absurdity i dont mean the dangerous aspect, i agree with Verstappen on his view on the saudi track, its just danger for the sake of it.
It only makes sense that the last red flag in Monaco to be caused by Maldonado 😂
I went to Monaco many years ago for a walk round the track and found several interesting things such as the Grover Statue in the Bughatti still exists they just remove it for the race, which is a shame
It should be also pointed out that for all the Monaco GP is now a Safety Car fest there wasn't a single deployment at Monte Carlo for the first ten years of its operation
Do you think these new cars will even work at Monaco? They are big, heavy and slow, in slow corners...
They’re shorter than they used to be, so maybe.
@@AidanMillward still not short enough.
People named Monaco as being unchanged, oh dear 🤦 🤣
I can see why though. It’s a street circuit.
Yeah and the guy you don't rate made it his own, winning it 6 times.
Never said I didn’t rate him.
It’s his fans who can’t handle anyone saying he wasn’t an infallible god that I don’t like.
@@AidanMillward Much like the Lewis fans.
@@afenijmeijer9027 or the Max fans. Or the Michael fans… the list goes on.
@@afenijmeijer9027 no
I don't get how some find Monaco boring ? One mistake, you're done for the day
I generally tend to think that this is the business GP because if any team is looking for an extra sponsor to shore up that nagging $150 million debt - what better excuse for a company to hire out a stupidly expensive yacht to lay on the harbour and talk terms and conditions. Monaco is not going to win over those who hate it but there is a fundamental reason that it's there apart from history. Still won't change opinions.
It could have been around since the dinosaurs and I'd still want it off the calendar.
Monaco should be a Time attack
It is a stupid procession now, and it has been for quite some time.
Its a boring F1 track but FE around there is wild.
It has to be the weekend I hate the most in F1. It's Valencia levels of snoozefest.
Serious question, when is the OnlyFans starting? #formulaFUN
Luigi Fagioli was killed in 1952
Died three weeks after the crash. His death wasn’t AT the circuit.
Bit like how Bianchi wasn’t killed at Suzuka, it was the place he had the accident. But I see your point
Monaco - home of the most boring F1 race unless there are safety cars deployed to mix things up. Put that exact layout in a boring industrial town and it would have been dropped years ago. They are there for the money surrounding it
Then it's only interesting if people get out of position, there's still no overtaking hardly. Danny Ric won the race despite having a massive power loss because nobody could still get by him even if their cars were functioning perfectly.
I remember another year when Hammy won thanks to a penalty to Verstappen with Vettel just sitting in third not doing anything because he knew there was no point, and was simply hoping the mad one took out the Hamster.
Monoco is the least entertaining track on the calendar for F1. I wouldn't be disappointed if it was removed from the calendar.
Great track for FE but not so good for F1.
Monaco especially, but so many tracks are essentially wasted by having today’s cars race on them. Formula 1 gives us amazing machines & astounding ways of utilizing technology. But with that, Formula 1 also gives us horrible racing.
Perhaps they should market the Grands Prix as ‘A number of parade laps at speed with the tantalizing possibility of collisions’?… because that’s what the product is. Especially in the example of Monaco.
(Sorry, Charles… I know it’s your hometown)
Sorry, almost every other driver… I know it’s your tax avoidance hideout)
Well said. Some tracks are brilliant, just not brilliant for F1. The Monaco street circuit has become that.
I wouldn’t be at all sorry if the Monaco Grand Prix became like Macau’s; not part of the F1 championship, and run with cars more suited to the course. In fact, I’d be happy with the Formula E event becoming the Monaco Grand Prix. Its prestige might lead to F1 drivers being tempted to do it as a one-off - especially where their team has links to one in Formula E (Mercedes, Andretti if they join F1, etc.). Knowing F1’s “only show in town” attitude they’d no doubt deliberately schedule a replacement race on the same day though.
F1 has literally outgrown Monaco. Time for Monaco to take back a bit of control of its own race and bring a bit of racing/entertainment into it again?
boring for F1, GREAT for Formula E