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Joes
25th May 2025, 15:45
yawn
Adam (@adamgoh)
25th May 2025, 15:47
Farcical.
I don’t think there’s any way to make this race more interesting.
2/10
some racing fan
25th May 2025, 16:43
A few layout changes such as lengthening the run into the Tunnel (thereby bypassing Portier) and moving the Harbor Chicane closer to Tabac would be a good idea, IMHO. And the cars need to be smaller.
MGus.ai
25th May 2025, 18:52
If the “solution” is related to more overtakes, then Monaco needs something like making Russell move legal. I am not sure if people wouldnt hate “joker laps” more that mandatory stops.
Owen Smart (@smartez)
25th May 2025, 15:47
Yep, there rules didn’t work. It’s almost like it’s not the rules but it’s the track itself?
You know, what people have been saying for the past 10 years or what have you?
BasCB (@bascb)
25th May 2025, 17:02
Yeah, I do think the teams were VERY good at showing that this is not a “solution” – they clearly were taking the axe to the intent as much as Russel was with the rules when he just went through the chicane to get by the Williams. We’ve seen it a few years back where everyone was super slow, we saw it last year when everyone just drove to the finish on the tyres they changed onto after the red Flag, they show it at each opportunity.
I am not sure it is possible to build a tyre that they can not just do what they need to coax a full race distance out of if they need to. Maybe we just need to find a completely different weekend format, because the really tense part of the weekend really is the Saturday. Mandatory pitstops clearly aren’t it.
Maybe get them in something like go cars or something for the sunday show? Then again, we can’t say the top 3 did not push their cars today, Norris had to work for it, Piastri clearly wasn’t just calling it in either and Leclerc did what he could to try and get Norris to make a crucial mistake, pretty much at the same time as Max was doing what Hamilton tried to do for the Championship to Rosberg in 2016, even making up “my left tyres are dead” as an excuse for the books in case anyone complains …
Jere (@jerejj)
25th May 2025, 15:47
The best dry Monaco GP for a while, even if via artificial ways.
Postreader
25th May 2025, 15:53
I mean, is it any more arbitrary than mandating one pit stop in other races? Not to mention DRS.
Schumi_alonso
25th May 2025, 16:05
Mandatory two stops = the new DRS
BasCB (@bascb)
25th May 2025, 17:05
Yeah, the “solution” did not really work to make the race much better. But the way it played out meaning that the top 4 was close together and really all doing what they could in their way to try and win it – Piastri hoping pushing Leclerc, hoping the guys ahead would crash, Max trying to push Norris into Leclerc, hoping for them to clash, Norris trying to get some distance between him and Max to have a bit of a gap to Leclerc behind at the hairpin and off course Leclerc doing what he could to push Norris into a mistake to have a shot at overtaking did make those last 10 laps or so rather more entertaining than many of the recent races have been.
F1 in Figures (@f1infigures)
25th May 2025, 17:27
@bascb Last year the top-4 were nose to tail all race and most fans still didn’t like it. The only thing that made this race interesting was the possibility of a red flag that could give Verstappen a free stop and the win.
BasCB (@bascb)
25th May 2025, 19:20
Last year they were pushing far less though, given the need to get their tyres to last until the end, something that was not an issue given they had changed tyres a few times.
I do think one reason Hamilton was pretty far back was that he had only one fresh set of each tyre and the other set had already been used, making him go slower.
F1 in Figures (@f1infigures)
27th May 2025, 8:06
@bascb Last year the drivers sped up quite dramatically at the end of the race. Even Russell did, who was on a very old set of mediums. He still had the pace to easily keep Verstappen and Hamilton on much fresher tires behind, which was as boring as it was impressive. This year Norris pushed a few laps before his first stop and on his last lap and that’s it. Most other drivers were either in tire-saving mode all the time, in road-block mode or stuck in a massive traffic jam. I don’t think this was an improvement.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
25th May 2025, 23:41
This so called best race achieved over a quarter of 1\10 votes, which is huge when it’s not protest voting, and 3\4 of voters voted 5 or less, not sure how it was better than for example 2018, for me it was the worst monaco yet.
Well, last year was probably worse, but there was a rule change this year that gave some hope of something happening, and then it didn’t.
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
25th May 2025, 15:47
That was the worst F1 race I’ve ever seen after Indianapolis 05.
some racing fan
25th May 2025, 16:44
Worse than Hockenheim 2010? Or a few others
Fer no.65 (@fer-no65)
25th May 2025, 16:45
Hockenheim 2010 is Brazil 2012 compared to this one.
Christopher Smith
25th May 2025, 16:56
Correct me if I am wrong but were the Williams team order swaps to get their pit stops through without losing a place and the Russell chicane cut the only overtakes of the “race” on the track.
2021 Belgium had as many legal actual racing overtakes as this one.
Maybe they can do something in the future with the incoming hybrid rules replacing DRS to create a power offset capable to allow overtaking. But Max I think had it right. An F1 car might get past an F2 car out there but that’s about it.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
25th May 2025, 23:43
Tbh both in the case of indianapolis 2005 and spa 2021 I don’t blame the race, I blame the f1 organizers: they could’ve let the michelin cars race and make 10 stops, I heard someone proposed it, for the show, and spa 2021 is a race that would’ve happened a couple of decades back, in those conditions, and an exciting one; unfortunately f1 is governed by cowards now.
Canderous (@yoshif8tures)
25th May 2025, 15:48
What a farce. 0/10
Ben
25th May 2025, 15:49
Well that didn’t work. It’s time to get serious about Monaco. Track changes are needed when drivers can be 5seconds+ slower per lap and the car behind still can’t overtake.
Didn’t like the team play but can fully understand it. Williams able to make 50 second gaps for each driver to put twice is just ridiculous.
Tommy C (@tommy-c)
25th May 2025, 15:49
Pretty farcical really. You know something’s wrong when drivers start deliberately overtaking off track and accept a drive through penalty that doesn’t really penalise them… hopefully we’ll be back to normal next year. Happy for Lando. He’s dragged himself back into this championship after things were looking a bit dire for him only a couple of weeks ago.
Patrick (@paeschli)
25th May 2025, 15:56
I think Russell showed how you should drive here. If teams are intentionally driving 50s slower than possible, a drive through suddenly does not look that bad.
MGus.ai
25th May 2025, 18:44
If we were allow to talk crazy, maybe the solution is a “joker lap”, making Russell move legal.
BW (@deliberator)
25th May 2025, 15:49
The only reason I didn’t give it a 1/10 is because it it’s quite impossible to be as bad as last year. But, not far behind. 2/10.
safeeuropeanhome (@debaser91)
25th May 2025, 15:50
It is not motor racing when cars can deliberately be 5 – 7 seconds off the pace and no one can do a damn thing about it. Honestly, they should give out the points on Saturday for Monaco, the Sunday race is a complete waste of everyone’s time.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
25th May 2025, 23:46
In a way, didn’t things go even worse than giving out the points on saturday in this case? Not only nothing exciting happened during the race, but alonso had a technical problem and missed out on a deserved first points finish this year when he was in a good position, as it is it’s like a reliability test.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
25th May 2025, 15:50
Always a spectacle. But I hope they never repeat that experiment. The World Overthinking Championship – without TV captions saying who still needs to stop. But you can’t overtake here (got that, Kimi?)
BLS (@brightlampshade)
25th May 2025, 15:51
Dull as ever, but at least there was a level of farcical to spice things up…
erikje (@erikje)
25th May 2025, 15:52
It was somewhat chaotic and boring at the same time. I was trying to keep ahead of who had and hadn’t stopped and who would benefit from a SC or VSC at each stage.
As always no real racing. Qualifying and even practice is more interesting than the race. Maybe we make Monaco a time trial if we can’t make track layout changes.
Overall it was probably better than without the new rule, but it was still dreadful.
bosyber (@bosyber)
25th May 2025, 16:07
The three row table of who had stopped 2,1 and no times before it was halfway done was emblematic really. No, don’t think this was what we needed.
Still, I think the top 4 fight would have been quite similar even with the normal one stopper (though Verstappen might have been behind from the (V)SC in the initial stage, having him being in a Hamilton like alone on track position?) and that was still close because Leclerc had pace and position, but not pole and win then too, so that part I think made it decent.
Also, quite glad to see that Russell got a drive-through and a time penalty added to make sure that’s not repeated either. I got the frustration, but really that was a step down from the excellent form he’s shown so far this season.
Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
25th May 2025, 15:52
A mildly amusing farce. It’s worth noting that other than Hamilton jumping Hadjar and Alonso retiring, there were no changes of position from the grid order to the finishing order in the first 11 cars.
If this race proved anything, it’s that modern F1 cars simply cannot race around Monaco. When you have the two Williams drivers backing up the pack by a total of 80 seconds to cycle through their pit stops without anyone being able to attempt a legitimate overtake, you know that overtaking is essentially impossible.
I suspect now that teams are more clued up on the potential of easily backing up rivals to create a pit stop gap we will see a lot more of that in future years, even on a conventional one stop. Expect to see midfield teams which qualify 6th and 7th to use the backing up and swap strat to guarantee their positions and prevent their rivals from using their pace to under or overcut.
Patrick (@paeschli)
25th May 2025, 15:58
When you have both Mercedes taking avoiding action, at some ping you should dish out penalties for erratic driving.
elchinero (@elchinero)
25th May 2025, 16:08
“Once I was disgusted, now I try to be amused … ” E. Costello
Clark (@clarkf)
25th May 2025, 15:52
Worst Monaco grand prix ever (ok maybe better than last year) but only just
GechiChan (@gechichan)
25th May 2025, 15:53
This was a farce. Driver of the day: Russell, for not putting up with the dangerous shenanigans.
pcxmac (@pcxmac)
25th May 2025, 15:58
agree. Russell was trying to be legitimate on this day, in what was clearly ILLegitimate racing.
Christopher Smith
25th May 2025, 17:00
But if Merc were ahead of Williams they’d be doing the same exact thing to get them a double points finish.
tielemst
25th May 2025, 15:53
Terrible. Was there anything mildly interesting here? When you go hoping for SC’s to make a race interesting we’re in a bad place
Roger Ayles (@roger-ayles)
25th May 2025, 15:53
The 2nd mandatory stop badly hurt my enjoyment of that race for the same reason that I always hated refueling, that been that all of the focus all day was on the pit strategy rather than the action on track.
Aside from the end as the pit strategies were playing out nobody was really putting in any urgency to try and risk an overtake because again like when we had refueling it was all about not risking the car and just waiting to try and jump them in the pits.
Yes overtaking is exceptionally hard at Monaco but it’s never been impossible and back in the days when you didn’t make any pit stops at Monaco when cars were as wide as they are today you saw overtaking at Monaco because everyone was pushing hard to try and overtake knowing it was the only way to do it and you also didn’t have any of these silly team tactics been done to game the pit strategy.
PeteB (@peteb)
25th May 2025, 15:59
There was no action on track… If the focus wasn’t on the pit strategies, it would have been on celebrities watching the race instead. Drivers were going several seconds a lap slower to create a gap for others and still no-one could pass.
It’s not just about the width of the cars, it’s the weight as well. They’re not nimble like they used to be and with the hybrid nonsense, they can just press a button to make sure they get a decent exit leading into any potential overtaking spots.
Christopher Smith
25th May 2025, 17:02
“action on track”…
Imagine taking out the need for two stops. Teams slow once to get their teammates through and it’s a professional race and that’s it. One stop and the drama is over halfway through the race unless someone wrecks.
It’s not the answer but I don’t think you get any more racing without it. Agree the cars can’t race here.
PeteB (@peteb)
25th May 2025, 15:54
2/10 for me. It would have been a 1/10 but I quite enjoyed watching Williams take the absolute p out of the race to get a double points finish.
It’s easy to say the 2 pitstop rule ruined the race but that suggests the race would have interesting without the new rules.
Monaco just doesn’t work with modern-day cars. Either change the track, change the cars or just give up and race somewhere else.
pcxmac (@pcxmac)
25th May 2025, 15:56
garbage race. I agree with the top statements. 1/10
it’s one thing to watch a procession, its another thing to see who can slow down other drivers the most, from Max on down, what garbage, anti-racing is what i saw on the tube.
PlosslF1 (@f1-ploss)
25th May 2025, 15:57
I thought they had stopped filming for the F1 Movie?
knightameer (@knightameer)
25th May 2025, 16:02
One of the worst races I have watched, maybe second to only USGP 2005. 0/10
anon
25th May 2025, 16:03
I don’t blame Williams (and RB) for their strategy. But that really hurt my enjoyment of the race. Deliberately slowing down that much is farcical and dangerous. They were going up to 7 seconds off the pace deliberately to build gaps for their teammates. Honestly, there should be black and white flags for deliberately going deliberately slowly in Monaco. Or better yet just cancel this farcical race. Perhaps just have 2 qualifying sessions the first to set your place in the running order and a time trial on Sunday based on that. 1/10 race. Deliberately going 7 seconds off the pace is not racing and I became a fan of Russel today for not standing for that bull****.
Electroball76
25th May 2025, 16:04
They need to make Monaco a Time Trial stage.
lynn-m
25th May 2025, 16:11
Nah, lave Monaco the way it is.
You don’t like it just don’t watch it!
Winning the Monaco time trial simply wouldn’t mean as much as surviving 78 laps of the Monaco GP, That is what the beauty of Monaco has always been…. The challenge of surviving.
If Monaco was always a time trail you lose some of the most iconic moments such as the end of 1982/92 or senna crashing in ’88 not to mention panis winning in ’96 or Schumacher’s masterful drive in ’97.
The only thing wrong with monaco right now is the tyres and mandatory pit nonsense that encourage slow driving be it either due to a need to manage pathetic tyres or what we saw today with far too much focus on strategy. A monaco GP that encourages drivers to drive closer to the limit for 78 laps would be a far more exciting spectacle.
Christopher Smith
25th May 2025, 17:05
Cutting the mandatory pit stops to one just halves the only thing that broke up 20 cars driving behind each other. I agree, I would rather see racing. But as Ricciardo showed us, that can’t happen here anymore.
The Dude
25th May 2025, 16:04
Lots of negativity on here. It still made for a decent nap time, but the ‘novel’ rules made the race miles more interesting for me vs the previous years – or any Monaco gp that hasn’t been wet tbh. It’s always dire, but at least there was some jeopardy through to the end with Max holding out for a red flag. It won’t work again though – as someone said above all the teams will have learned how to use each car to get a gap. Next year – 5 stops minimum 🤣
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
25th May 2025, 23:55
And they need to use 5 different tyre compounds: hard, medium, soft, inters, full wets, no matter if it’s bone-dry; the full wets might shred after a lap and cause the driver to be 15 sec off the pace, which might actually allow some overtaking!
dot_com (@dot_com)
26th May 2025, 21:03
I think that even with 5 stops the result would be exactly the same.
StefMeister (@stefmeister)
25th May 2025, 16:06
I love Monaco for what it is, Always have and always will.
That been said I don’t like it when the regulations encourage drivers to drive so far off the pace that it ends up hurting the elements that I love about Monaco and which can create some real excitement and unpredictability. And be it because of high degredation tyres or because of teams playing games due to mandatory pit stops we have had regulations for the past 15 years or so that have created that scenario far too often.
What I would do for Monaco is go the other way and rather than create more mandatory stops or bring ever softer compounds i’d drop all the mandatory pit stops and give them rock hard tyres that can easily last all race but perhaps don’t offer maximum grip.
Encourage them to want/need to push flat out for more of the race which will then introduce the element of drivers making mistakes and with no mandatory stops it also incentivises them to have to push to overtake on the track.
And as to the track itself i’d make 2 changes. I’d open up the apex of Portier slightly and do the same on the exit of the 2nd part of the swimming pool. Doing this may open up the possibility for a driver behind to try a different line focussing on getting a better exit to setup a run to the chicane and Rascasse. The biggest issue currently is that the exits of those corners into the potential passing zones is that it’s single line so it’s difficult to work on getting a better exit to try and make something happen. The best corners in terms of helping to setup an overtake are always the ones that allow for a driver behind to try a different line aiming on getting a better run off the exit and down the following straight.
cdavman (@cdavman)
25th May 2025, 16:18
Best bit about this race?
James Vowles talking to sky from the pitwall during the race, and unlike other races where they might be a bit cagey about tactics, this time telling the entire world “Now Alex has got his two stops out of the way, we’re going to get him to hold everyone up so Carlos can pit twice ahead of him” and knowing that there was literally nothing the teams behind could do about it… Thus highlighting how farcical this whole event is.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
26th May 2025, 0:03
Aha, yes, it’s quite nice when they’re this open about tactics.
Neil (@neilosjames)
25th May 2025, 16:20
It was quite funny really, but I don’t watch F1 to laugh. 1/10, and the 1 is for Russell cutting the chicane on purpose as it was the move the race deserved.
János
26th May 2025, 13:33
Couldn’t agree more!
Ooo
25th May 2025, 16:22
Im not too sure this race at Monaco can be salvaged for todays F1 cars. It is such a historical and legendary event….let it be just that. Continuing to run this circuit only further marrs its legendary status. 2 stops…1 stop….40 stops….the race will always have the same issue, no space to attempt an overtake. Redesign in this city would prove difficult and costly, I imagine. If introduced as a new race location…FIA would never consider it. It’s ‘prestige’ is the only thing keeping this GP alive. Nobody likes to see legendary tracks given up….but this one is long overdue.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
26th May 2025, 0:06
These cars are too big, monaco was always special as the hardest track to overtake on, but you had opportunities, verstappen made lots of overtakes as recently as 2018, but now with these cars the difficulty went up another notch, I didn’t notice a single overtake (cutting the chicane doesn’t count ofc) all race, which is a first, even last year had some.
RicoD (@ricod)
25th May 2025, 16:28
It was good that they tried something, but it didn’t work. The backing up made it actually worse. The cars are just to big and heavy. The need to be a lot smaller and lighter. And when they are at it, cut away a lot of the front and rear spoilers so that they can follow each other again. Sadly with the 26 rules set, we need to wait several years longer…
Leftie (@leftie)
25th May 2025, 16:30
F1’s edition of parking the bus.
some racing fan
25th May 2025, 16:41
Monaco needs to have a few layout changes, like moving the chicane further back towards Tabac and lengthening the run into the Tunnel, therefore bypassing the current Portier corner. And the cars need to be smaller. It is almost if not impossible to pass with these fat cars.
PeterG
25th May 2025, 16:52
not as if passing was any easier when the cars were much smaller and lighter. i mean they were shorter, narrower and lighter in the early/mid 2000s and people were complaining even back then.
i’ve been watching F1 since the late 60s and overtaking has never been easy and i’m not just talking about at monaco either.
i remember standing trackside at brands hatch in 1972 and there was very little overtaking even back then. and similarly i recall been trackside at silverstone in 1981 and not seeing much happen in terms of overtaking.i rewatched that race recently as its on f1tv and it played out very similarly to many of the modern races in terms of not much happening at that was also back with full on ground effects and some cars not running front wings.
the difference is however that back then nobody was really obsessed with overtaking as they are today because that wasn’t what anyone really cared about. it was about the challenge of driving the cars, the skill of the drivers and the challenge that was thrown up by the circuits.
everyone focussing just on overtaking and judging the quality of a race by how much overtaking took place is a fairly new thing. like i honestly don’t recall seeing how easy overtaking was at a circuit or how many moves had taken place been brought up as a positive or negative until mid/late 90s.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
26th May 2025, 0:10
You can’t really compare monaco in the 2000s with now! Ofc it’s always been difficult, but coulthard and schumacher recovered from the back to 5th place back then, do you see it happening now? I didn’t see ONE overtake!
Sham (@sham)
25th May 2025, 16:48
Monaco is never going to be a spectacular race, and trying to make it so will ruin it.
This race was interesting,.trying to work out each teams plan at various points, rather than exciting – but that’s OK, it’s Monaco.
It still demands more of the drivers than any other race, and that’s why it’s still the race that they all want to win. Take every risk on Saturday and hold your nerve and your concentration on Sunday.
A farce is isn’t, a wheel to wheel battle it isn’t. It’s Monaco, and I hope it never changes.
joe jopling (@jop452)
25th May 2025, 16:54
I thought slightly better with new rules..so a 6. Unless it rains have seen much much worse at Monaco
PeterG
25th May 2025, 16:56
I can’t say i was a fan of the mandatory stops.
It affected the race in exactly the way i was expecting it to and i just cannot say i enjoyed it and hope it’s something that they never do again at Monaco or anywhere else.
I’ve never liked mandatory stops and i’ve never seen multiple mandatory stops used in any series that has made the racing better, it always makes it worse in terms of the on-track.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
26th May 2025, 0:12
Thinking about it, although the opinion was a bit split in that case, there was a race in the last few years where, due to pirelli tyres having some issue, drivers had to make 3 stops or something, and from what I personally saw, it was disappointing, it didn’t make the racing better.
us-brian (@us-brian)
25th May 2025, 17:00
I knew Monaco is usually a boring race but this was so much worse. F1 needs to either make this a no point race or seriously rethink the rules.
I do not know how someone on here could rate this anything but mediocre.
Shame on you F1 for constantly allowing for this farce of a race to go on.
David BR (@david-br)
25th May 2025, 17:13
Where’s the ‘zero’ option?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
26th May 2025, 13:52
@david-br You raise a good point, there should be a zero option, I’ve thought that for a long time. But adding one in now would throw off the comparison with all the previous races so best to leave it as it is, I think.
Par
25th May 2025, 17:36
10/10
They tried to do artificial race with 2 stops. Engineers shown how it is done.
MXMXD (@mxmxd)
25th May 2025, 17:39
I was probably better than a pure 1 in terms of entertainment value, but if I wanted to watch a clown show, I wouldn’t be watching an F1 race.
FS005
25th May 2025, 19:47
It was a great race. For once the drivers in front were pushing the limits. Monaco has always been difficult to overtake. But it’s not about overtaking. It’s about drivers being centimeters away from the barriers.
The new rules need to be tweaked by disqualifying cars if they get lapped more than once. If drivers push flat out around Monaco for 78 laps it’s going to be an insanely nerve wracking race.
J765
25th May 2025, 19:53
The distance between Monza and Imola is around 240 km.
The distance between Monza and Monaco is around 250 km.
It’s sad that one must go, and the other must be kept because of some artificial lines on the ground.
The only reason those new rules were used is to avoid to discuss the real issue: With today’s cars, Monaco must be removed from the calendar. If you want to keep the Monaco Grand Prix, move it to Imola.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
26th May 2025, 0:15
Imola at least shares a feature with monaco: overtaking is hard, just like monaco before this new generation of cars.
Nikos (@exeviolthor)
25th May 2025, 20:16
The only difference between Monaco and the other races is that DRS does not work there.
The cars are the problem rather than the track.
JMDan (@danmar)
25th May 2025, 22:29
I assume there were nice yachts to look at.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
26th May 2025, 0:16
The director didn’t do a good job in that sense, rarely saw the yachts during the race!
Phil Norman (@phil-f1-21)
25th May 2025, 22:48
I have never been one of those who thought Monaco should go or had its day. But this race is enough to think its continuation requires serious consideration. Gave it 5/10. So not the worse race I’ve seen. The revealing of the strategies was interesting and the last few laps were quite exciting seeing if anyone made a mistake.
But I think either the layout has to be amended to allow at least one half decent passing place or the cars have to change (unlikely). Or basically it’s never going to be a proper F1 RACE or deserve its place when other better circuits are losing theirs.
Unicron (@unicron2002)
25th May 2025, 23:16
Best (totally dry) Monaco grand Prix since 2011 in my opinion, that was a huge improvement in the go slow borefests of the last decade or so. For the last 10 years I have dreaded the chore of enduring watching a Monaco GP but thanks to the 3 tyre rule tweak I couldn’t take my eyes off the race today. I’m a bit shocked I’m in the minority judging by the comments here. They made Monaco fun again, well done to all involved.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
25th May 2025, 23:35
Ahah, I voted 1, said it in italian when I did: “UNO!”, then checked the ratings and noticed it’s the most voted option, at 26%!
It’s one thing when there’s a lot of 1s as protest voting, like against an unfair penalty or the sprint races, another thing is a genuine 1 cause no overtakes or anything exciting happened, despite a rule change that could’ve potentially shaken things up.
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
26th May 2025, 0:18
Also around 75% of voters went for 5 or less, that also says a lot, and notice how, with some exception, the % decreases as the score increases.
Steve Rogers (@beeflin)
26th May 2025, 0:18
As usual, an amazing display of precision talent and huge effort which doesn’t satisfy those who need to see big stuff happen.
BlackJack (@danieljaksa)
26th May 2025, 0:43
As an avid Formula 1 fan since the late 60’s, I have often reflected on why I enjoy it so much. Is it the cutting edge engineering technology? Is it the fearless drivers putting their lives at risk? Is it because you can follow the F1 circus as it travels around the world? Is it watching wealthy celebrities peddling themselves on an international stage? To varying degrees, yes, it’s all of these. But the single most important benefit of being a Formula 1 fan, and a motor racing fan in general, is watching multiple teams fighting each other, at high speed, on the one battlefield at the same time. With the massive appeal of Formula 1 at the moment (thanks to manipulative American marketing techniques) all can be lost by continuing to pander to the spectacle other than the competitive fight that is the essence of all sport. I don’t blame the F1 masters trying to make the Monaco GP more enjoyable for new fans. But the Monaco GP is more about history (and money) than pure racing. The change to two mandatory tyre changes clearly didn’t have the effect they wanted. Like most races, the team with the fastest car and a team that can manage the race and drive the car with minimal mistakes will win. It’s okay for Monaco to have the same tyre rules as other GPs. There are 23 other races after all.
sam
26th May 2025, 0:59
Change the guard rails, run the race in reverse.
VissileF1 (@mark-visser99)
26th May 2025, 2:56
They should be made to run their 60% scale wind tunnel cars with a MotoGP engine.
Then it would get interesting.
Jim from US (@jimfromus)
26th May 2025, 3:33
Sucked. 0.000000 Imola out but this stays???
Frasier (@frasier)
26th May 2025, 13:48
Nobody is ever going to make Monaco a race with overtaking, that needs to be recognised.
Why not base the format on the IOM TT format where the shortest elapsed time wins? Add in BTCC style elimination heats followed by a final. Divide the drivers into 4 groups of 5 cars based upon qualifying times. Fastest shares a ‘race’ with the slowest 4 drivers/cars, cars released at 10 second intervals for a 10 lap sprint. 2nd fastest from quali with second slowest 4 from quali etc. The fastest 2 driver/car combos from each heat go through to a final with 8 runners, similar format but released at 5 second intervals and race lasts 20 laps.
As per normal race two types of tyre must be used, one in the heats, the other in the final with 8 runners, unless it rains.
Special rule, if a car is caught to within DRS range by a following car the car that has been caught is eliminated and blue flagged immediately. Failure to obey the blue flag will result in both cars from the offending team being eliminated from the whole meeting instantly.
The current leaderboard would thus be displayed to the audience as normal, but based upon elapsed time at the track sectors rather than track position. Software could make this easy I think. Perhaps even the ‘ghost car’ format used effectively by the C4 team for qualifying?
Yesterday’s race was truly abysmal as a spectacle and also for the audience to understand who is doing well, apart from the lead few cars.
UKCAN
26th May 2025, 15:49
Stirling Moss, Jimmie Clark, even Christabel Carlisle, among others, driving minis and Ford galaxies flat out within inches of each other around Brands Hatch and Silverstone, was motor racing. From its inception, F1’s governing body has been changing this amazing sport, with incredibly talented drivers, into nothing more than a money making spectacle. What we saw yesterday at Monaco, was not motor racing, it was an insult to the fans.
dot_com (@dot_com)
26th May 2025, 21:12
I’m so torn, because I love Monaco and I look forward to it every year. The atmosphere, the build up to qualifying and seeing the drivers gradually push harder and harder, cm’s from the barriers. Watching an F1 car around Monaco is still amazing. But the mandatory two stop rule only exacerbated the existing problems with racing massive modern F1 cars here. I hope Monaco is always on the F1 calendar, but I fear that something has to be done when a car ahead that is 5 seconds slower just simply can’t be passed. A race should not be based on who can hold up most people for the longest. I don’t know the answer, but I know that the cars have changed hugely and the streets of Monaco haven’t. There has to be a middle ground to make them gel with each other again.
dot_com (@dot_com)
26th May 2025, 21:14
For the record I gave it 4/10. It’s always great to see F1 cars at Monaco, but this isn’t a ‘race’ I’d ever want to watch again.