Poll: Official 2025 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread - Circuit de Monaco - Race 8/24

Rate the 3A race out of ten

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Glad Lando won and the double stops was slightly improved but as we saw you just end up with car stacking and holding people up which is silly - funny watching George think **** it and just do mad stuff haha
 
I don't think the double stops helped at all, if anything it made it worse. Too many teams playing the game and making pit stop gaps for their team mate. Driving people like GR into utter boredom and taking a penalty just to get past.
 
The 2 stops just made it even more clear that it's not a sport, and just entertainment designed to sell stuff. More than half the field were trapped doing extremely slow lap times. Antonelli pitting twice right at the end, just showed how pointless it all was.
Someone needs to remind them about the tyre waste at this race, next time they are pretending to care about the environment.
 
I gave it a one out of disgust at the shenanigans, but it probably deserved a two or three. There was some interest in the race, and the two stop thing did work at the front I think. Had Hamilton not been useless there could have been interest in him vs Verstappen. Things were just ugly behind that though, and two overtakes in an entire race (Bortoleto passed Kimi then Kimi took it back) is dismal.

I still value Monaco for the history and spectacle but it's now totally reliant on rain to not be dreadful.
 
Rather boring as expected. Dissapointing from Lewis to be so slow compared to the top 4. It was weird that Hadjar was massively slow behind him too. Like he said in the interview, he was just in no man's land.
 
Jono8 said:
It was weird that Hadjar was massively slow behind him too. Like he said in the interview, he was just in no man's land.
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Hadjar was slow mostly because he was on a strategy designed to guarantee 5th place rather than optimise his race time, so he pitted on laps 15 and 19 while Lawson held up the pack for him; and then conserved tyres for the rest of the race. No-one threatened him and he was no threat to Hamilton so there wasn't any reason for him to push. I don't think he'd have been particularly close to the front runners anyway, but it was massively exaggerated by the strategy.
 
I originally thought the two stop rule was a good idea. No tyre management, just flat out all the time. How wrong was I! :o
It's time to remove it or completely change it.
They could extend the qualifying and just scrap the race on Sunday.
 
imtoooldforthis said:
Look forward to you all still watching it next season :p
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To be honest, i don’t quite get the hysteria over it. Yes it is boring and there are very few/if any overtakes, but then quite a few races are like that.

I guess the frustration stems from them all artificially going slow to game the strategy etc

Yes, its boring and frustrating to watch most times, but i still think it has its place. It can still be good if there are crashes/wet weather. Unfortunately we had neither of those this time.
 
Monaco simply isn't a race, it's a procession because it's just about impossible to overtake, Mansell proved that in 1992. He pitted when he had a puncture and despite having a massively faster car and catching Senna very quickly there was simply no way past him. I would love to see this event dropped but that will never happen with all the money flying around so have it as a non-championship race, a demonstration event or something. At the moment it's getting worse and worse each year with drivers just pootling around the track, it's not good to watch.
 
imtoooldforthis said:
Look forward to you all still watching it next season :p
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Pretty much.
I’ve watched F1 for most of my life and have some good memories of this track, I think that is the main problem is that everything has changed but this track really can’t, either because of it’s history where we just wouldn’t let it change or the fact that they just don’t have the room to change.
I was a little shocked again at the sheer amount of people on the grid, it looked almost impossible to move, could you imagine if anything happened there…..utter carnage.
 
mushtafa said:
They could extend the qualifying and just scrap the race on Sunday.
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Make Saturday Q1 and run for an hour then Sunday is Q2 and Q3, 3/4 hour and 1/2 respectively.

Make use of all the race tyres for numerous runs over both days. Maybe mandate Q1 to be Hard and Medium Only, Q2 anything, then Q3 medium or soft only.
 
I loved it, qualifying is obviously the crucial bit but really tests the drivers. The race is always a procession or crash fest. I thought the 2 pit stops were OK its just teams like Merc had no clue.
You are very unlikely to get anything different at Monaco.
It was funny when Bearman who was last was doing 1m 14s and Norris in the lead doing 1m 18s.
 
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Slam62 said:
I thought the 2 pit stops were OK its just teams like Merc had no clue.
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To be fair Merc had little opportunity for shenanigans, being caught behind first Lawson, then Sainz, then Albon. Kimi did create a gap for Russell but by then it was too late for Russell to do anything in return, and could have risked an opportunity to strike if one of the cars ahead had to pit for any reason.
 
Thing is, this race just needs crashes to be anything other than a joke. No-one is driving fast enough after the first few laps to crash.
Qualifying is exciting to watch. But the race has the unique skill of making an F1 car look boring.
Quite an achievement.
 
Monaco has had its day for F1 in my book.

They need to rethink the circuit, which I know has massive limitations or options but the current format is pointless.
 
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