23-05-2025
There's a major problem Monaco must solve if it is to survive on the F1 calendar, writes JONATHAN McEVOY
It is time for Monaco to bend, for once in its proud life, to the overdue requirement to build an overtaking acre to preserve its status as the grand prix venue first among equals.
I speak as one of its friends. And had I never been to a race and could choose which to visit it would be here. It is a place of glamour, redolent of ghosts past, from Princess Grace, Her Serene Highness who added Hollywood glamour to its royal house, to stars such as Sir Stirling Moss and Graham Hill, aka Mr Monaco, and beyond to the cast of today.
