What to change at Monaco?

[slipstream 1985]

What would you do or could you do short of dropping it.

I google earthed it the other day. My only thought was a serious redesign of the first corner moving back kerbing on the outside and extending the inside kerb running further into the run off area to create more of a hairpin.

Anywhere else?
Open up the other part of casino square?

[slipstream 1985]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@43.7367526,7.421368...
plenty of options

[saaby93]

Was that the most exciting F1 'race' (make like a train) ever ?

[Gareth1974]

Get rid of "Nouvelle Chicane" after the tunnel, which would extend the straight from the tunnel, giving an overtaking opportunity under braking into Tabac?

[Jasandjules]

Just bin it. These cars are too wide and too dependent on aerodynamics to race here IMHO.

[thegreenhell]

Keep the track exactly as it is, but for this one race only make them ride bikes instead.

[37chevy]

It’s not the track it’s the cars, it’s just that Monaco emphasises everything that’s wrong with them. Have Indycar there instead

[Downward]

saaby93 said:

Was that the most exciting F1 'race' (make like a train) ever ?

It was the most amazing the leaders car is broken but the cars behind cant keepup because their tyres have gone. Did anyone in the Top 10 over take at all ?

It was the most exciting Monaco for a while but it would have been more exciting just watching the lap times and gaps on a timing monitor. It was more like an old 8 bit computer game simulation.

Given the cars are 2m wide though there is 1 overtaking spot which involves out braking ypur opponent and risking flat spotting your tyres.

[glazbagun]

Sprinklers on half of the track.

Short of that there's no way to make it more entertaining as the problem is with cars that have outgrown a small street circuit.

[Kraken]

When you've got cars that are the same length as a limousine/long wheel base van what do you expect?

Get back to proper F1 cars that are smaller and lighter or just accept that Monaco is a car show and not a race.

[saaby93]

Downward said:

saaby93 said:

Was that the most exciting F1 'race' (make like a train) ever ?

It was the most amazing the leaders car is broken but the cars behind cant keepup because their tyres have gone. Did anyone in the Top 10 over take at all ?

That's because they all knew it's just about impossible to overtake and not worth the risk.
If it was possible theyd have changed onto decent tyres, over taken the ones that hadnt and the guy at the front
They might as well have had coupling hooks and pieces of string between them.
So long as they finished in the order they started, finishing was the best option

[slipstream 1985]

glazbagun said:

Sprinklers on half of the track.

Short of that there's no way to make it more entertaining as the problem is with cars that have outgrown a small street circuit.

You know what ironically sprinklers round the whole track wouldn't be that hard or costly to set up.

[ukaskew]

slipstream 1985 said:

You know what ironically sprinklers round the whole track wouldn't be that hard or costly to set up.

Can you imagine the conspiracy theories and internet outrage whenever the random sprinklers don't favour whichever team somebody follows?

[slipstream 1985]

ukaskew said:

slipstream 1985 said:

You know what ironically sprinklers round the whole track wouldn't be that hard or costly to set up.

Can you imagine the conspiracy theories and internet outrage whenever the random sprinklers don't favour whichever team somebody follows?

Just have them all through the entire race meeting.

[saaby93]

Would Formel E work better at Monaco?
Or karts

[rallycross]

If you’d ever been there to the race or even just walked round the track you know that it should be left as it is.

Watching it on tv gives a very false or vague idea of how incredible this event is: the race is almost always a precesssion, that is the nature of this track which has to be the ultimate challenge for any racer.

Today’s race was ruined by silly tyre regulations the best bits were watching Free practice and qualifying, give them some decent tyres to race on - not drive around saving tyre life.

[thegreenhell]

saaby93 said:

Would Formel E work better at Monaco?

They don't have enough power to get up the hill

Seriously though, they have raced FE at Monaco, but only on half the circuit. They turn even tighter right at Ste Devote down towards the Nouvelle Chicane, which now becomes an incredibly tight hairpin, then back around the harbour front. It was rubbish.

[anonymous-user]

Change the date to earlier or later in the year to hopefully get a wet race.

[saaby93]

rallycross said:

If you’d ever been there to the race or even just walked round the track you know that it should be left as it is.

Watching it on tv gives a very false or vague idea of how incredible this event is:

youre right silly me
Maybe they should do the same as horseracing, and have a ladies day.
which for some reason doesnt mean a ladies racing day

[dazwalsh]

I was so bored i sat with my son playing lego