ROUND 8: 🇲🇨 Monaco

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2024

Circuit stats

  • First Grand Prix: 1950
  • Number of laps: 78
  • Circuit Length: 3.337 km
  • Race Distance: 260.286 km
  • Lap record: 1:12.909 Lewis Hamilton (2021)
  • 2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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  • PPQ@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Way to go Charles!!! Very happy for him to have finally won his home race. With the 1st and 3rd today Ferrari is nipping at RB’s heels. Will be a very interesting race in Canada in a few weeks.

  • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    So is this the first time in the ground effect era that we have had multiple cars who have finished race be 2 laps down¿? For the life of me I can’t remember another instance of this happening.

  • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Quali is a joke on this track, and it’s going to be worse with more teams coming in the future. The race has been pointless for decades. No attempt at format change is going to improve the Monaco race, so it should really just be cancelled and officially turned into a media and fans weekend instead.

    When the most exciting thing to happen all day is whether or not Carlos would be allowed back in, that’s a pathetic result for the event.

    • wes@lemmy.worldOPM
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      6 months ago

      The weather gods were also sleeping sadly because rain could have spiced things up a little.

  • LCP@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I had the season written off for Red Bull before it even began, and we’ve now seen 4 different race winners in 8 races. Hopefully the competitiveness continues.

    Happy to see Gasly and Albon finally score points.

  • reddwarf@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    Very happy for Charles!

    But something needs to happen to this race. As it is now it is a Saturday race with qualifying, the race on Sunday is negligible, boring even.

    • smort@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They should add a rule that a red flag doesn’t count as a tire change for the purposes of fulfilling the “you must change tires at least once during a race” rule

      • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        Rather the rule should allow tyres to be changed to the same compound only in case of a red flag. That way they are still allowed to change tyres freely but then they have still make a stop to run a different compound if they haven’t done that before.

  • jwt@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    I feel like this thread has some nice “Silicon Valley” Rigby quality to it:
    "Leclerc-winning-his-home-race Is Great, But Y’know … ”

    Monaco is fucking boring, Ligby.