Well that was certainly interesting. Mercedes completely missed the boat there. Brilliant teamwork from Sainz and Albon there to take double points.
Monaco doesn’t provide overtaking but it provides plenty of stress! Lando had to have sprouted a few grey hairs in those last ten laps.
Definitely need to tweak the mandatory pit rules for next year but it made it slightly more interesting in my opinion.
Best suggestion for 2026 Monaco I’ve seen - put them all in shifter karts.
Just remove this GP. So useless, especially when Liberty Media is removing historical real tracks instead of the traffic jam simulator
Here’s my predication.
F1 is alchemy. It requires a lot of weird factors that are hard to pin down, but together makes F1 a ‘must-watch’.
F1 would drop in popularity without Monaco. Simple as that.
It doesn’t produce a race, but that doesn’t really matter. I can remember who won last year’s Monaco, but for the rest of the year most races - good or bad - it’d be an educated guess.
Name a corner at Monaco. I best most could name almost all of the track.
Watch f1 from 50s… you can recognise every corner (or what has changed).
Who has the best record at Monaco?
Remove this event from F1, you’ll soon see the rest of the sport degrade.
Monaco doesn’t need to make ‘logical’ success. It’s similar in vein to how karting declined quite consistently ever since it embraced more ‘convenient’ karts. Sure that was the ‘logical’ approach but it pretty much killed all the periphery businesses and culture that fed the sport.
Twin 125’s like in the Glenn Guest kart video you just put up would be a hoot on that track.
The Monaco Kart Cup did exist. A shame it ended really.
I say this with zero sarcasm I think they should put them in spec super karts that the teams agree on and the race counts for points. Sprint format. No pitstops. Whatever gives the best display of the driver’s ability and let’s the karts run at full throttle for the duration of the race with a ridiculous power to weight ratio. Slot cars.
I think this whole ‘stick them is karts’ shtick is incredibly disrespectful to the top kart drivers. it’s a big “f you” to them. They dedicate their time and lives to our sport, and even as karters we go “wouldn’t it be great to see F1 drivers race each other in karts” as if somehow the likes of Morley, Harpham, Elkmann etc… (in the context of superkarts) aren’t worthy of attention.
Also, spec-racing is lame. 
Also, 90% of the grid would do one lap and pull in deciding very much so that superkarts at Monaco isn’t for them.
F1 drivers have run in karting events before. It’s the same concept just scaled up. In an ideal world they would allow non F1 drivers to participate and we know what would happen. I’d love to see it instead of limited passing and the same old same old.
Make it worth a few extra points in the season. I’d be glued to the race from start to finish. Unlimited class karting at Monaco. F1 vs Legends of Super Karts. Speeds would be up there.
Edit: the lap record at Monaco is 102.34mph. Would a super kart be capable of beating that?
F1 drivers have run in karting events liek Bercy, and karters play second fiddle almost every time. They are a sideshow. We’re seeing the end of the era of the ‘professional karter’ at the moment, and this is partly down tot he deification of F1 drivers over our own. Also, there’s very little benefit for F1 drivers to go up against real karters. Reputational risk is too high now. So there’d be zero chance ‘superkarters’ would be allowed to race.
I imagine a Superkart at Monaco would be around the 1:20-1:25 mark.
Rumors say that Alpine is trying to snatch Perez from Cadillac, to replace Gasly. It seems Briatore is out to secure funds
I don’t get how Perez keeps getting interest. What is it with this guy? He’s not the only driver who has rich backers and a large fan base. How much money is he actually bringing to a team?
30-40m guaranteed with no issues.
It is race week once again as we head to Barcelona for the Spanish GP. Hopefully, we will have an exciting race this Sunday, unlike the one we had this past Sunday in Monaco.
Regardless of the recency bias, Perez WAS known as a steady set of hands with an occasional giant-killer performance when he raced for mid-field teams. The end of his Red Bull tenure soured his reputation a bit, but previously I think he was pretty well respected as a strong journeyman driver. Plus he has tons of experience. Plus he has TONS of cash. And the Central American/Mexican marketing angle is lucrative too.
He’s more appealing than Danny Ric for example. Ricciardo struggled pretty consistently after he left Red Bull and even though I loved seeing him get other chances, he never lived up to expectations.
And known for being schooled by an inexperienced Ocon at Force India. If it was not for the financial backing, Perez wouldnt be in F1 at all since 2018
The same could be said of any of them in 2025, right? No one in this sport is there from raw driving talent. That’s a good part of why I don’t watch it haha.
This is a stupid take …
At least all those guys are in F1 on merit
I think two things can be true. A lot of those drivers perform at a very high level, but a lot of them are also extraordinarily wealthy and priced out opposition along the way.
Max is the most annoying coz Nepotism is rife in motorsport, and yet he really is THAT good.