The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One motor race held each year on the Circuit de Monaco. Run since 1929 and joined the FIA Formula One world Championship 1950, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world and, with the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, forms the Triple Crown of Motorsport. The circuit has been called “an exceptional location of glamour and prestige”.
The race is held on a narrow course laid out in the streets of Monaco, with many elevation changes and tight corners as well as a tunnel, making it one of the most demanding tracks in Formula One. It is the only Grand Prix that does not adhere to the FIA’s mandated 305-kilometre (190-mile) minimum race distance.
Monaco Grand Prix, Round 6 of the 2017 Formula 1 season
Circuit Name: Circuit de Monaco
Race Laps: 78
Circuit Length: 3.337 km (2.074 mi)
Race Length: 260.286 km (161.734 mi)
Number of corners: 19 (11 Right, 8 Left)
DRS Zone: One Zones (Start/Finish Line Between Turns 19 and 1)
Circuit Direction: Clockwise
Pole Position 2016: Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 1:13.622
Track Record (During the race): 1:14.439 Michael Schumacher – Ferrari 2004
Circuit de Monaco
Pirelli used compounds
Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:
One set of P Zero Yellow soft
One set of P Zero Red Super-Soft
Tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:
One set of P Zero Purple Ultra-Soft
Teams/Drivers compounds choice
|
Driver |
Soft |
Super-Soft |
Ultra-Soft |
|
Lewis Hamilton |
1 |
3 |
9 |
|
Valtteri Bottas |
1 |
3 |
9 |
|
Daniel Ricciardo |
1 |
1 |
11 |
|
Max Verstappen |
1 |
1 |
11 |
|
Sebastian Vettel |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
Kimi Raikkonen |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
Sergio Perez |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
Esteban Ocon |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
Lance Stroll |
1 |
1 |
11 |
|
Felipe Massa |
1 |
1 |
11 |
|
Stoffel Vandoorne |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
Jenson Button |
2 |
1 |
10 |
|
Daniil Kvyat |
1 |
3 |
9 |
|
Carlos Sainz |
1 |
3 |
9 |
|
Romain Grosjean |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
Kevin Magnussen |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
Nico Hulkenberg |
1 |
1 |
11 |
|
Jolyon Palmer |
1 |
1 |
11 |
|
Marcus Ericsson |
1 |
2 |
10 |
|
Pascal Wehrlein |
1 |
2 |
10 |
THE CIRCUIT FROM A TYRE POINT OF VIEW:
MARIO ISOLA – HEAD OF CAR RACING
“The three softest compounds are the obvious choice for Monaco, but there is still plenty of scope for strategic variation, because wear and degradation is so low that the teams can more or less choose whenever they would like to make their single pit stop from ultrasoft to supersoft, which should be the standard choice for the race. This is the first grand prix that the drivers have been able to select their own tyre allocations, and as expected the nominations have overwhelmingly favoured the ultrasoft. This is the tyre that will be used the most in both qualifying and the race.”
MONACO MINIMUM STARTING PRESSURES (SLICKS)
Monaco EOS – CAMBER LIMIT
Monaco Grand Prix Winners 1950 – 2016
|
# Wins |
Driver |
Years Won |
|
2016 |
Lewis Hamilton |
Mercedes |
|
2015 |
Nico Rosberg |
Mercedes |
|
2014 |
Nico Rosberg |
Mercedes |
|
2013 |
Nico Rosberg |
Mercedes |
|
2012 |
Mark Webber |
Red Bull-Renault |
|
2011 |
Sebastian Vettel |
Red Bull-Renault |
|
2010 |
Mark Webber |
Red Bull-Renault |
|
2009 |
Jenson Button |
Brawn-Mercedes |
|
2008 |
Lewis Hamilton |
McLaren-Mercedes |
|
2007 |
Fernando Alonso |
McLaren-Mercedes |
|
2006 |
Fernando Alonso |
Renault |
|
2005 |
Kimi Raikkonen |
McLaren-Mercedes |
|
2004 |
Jarno Trulli |
Renault |
|
2003 |
Juan Pablo Montoya |
Williams-BMW |
|
2002 |
David Coulthard |
McLaren-Mercedes |
|
2001 |
Michael Schumacher |
Ferrari |
|
2000 |
David Coulthard |
McLaren-Mercedes |
|
1999 |
Michael Schumacher |
Ferrari |
|
1998 |
Mika Hakkinen |
McLaren-Mercedes |
|
1997 |
Michael Schumacher |
Ferrari |
|
1996 |
Olivier Panis |
Ligier-Mugen-Honda |
|
1995 |
Michael Schumacher |
Benetton-Renault |
|
1994 |
Michael Schumacher |
Benetton-Ford |
|
1993 |
Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Ford |
|
1992 |
Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Honda |
|
1991 |
Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Honda |
|
1990 |
Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Honda |
|
1989 |
Ayrton Senna |
McLaren-Honda |
|
1988 |
Alain Prost |
McLaren-Honda |
|
1987 |
Ayrton Senna |
Lotus-Honda |
|
1986 |
Alain Prost |
McLaren-TAG |
|
1985 |
Alain Prost |
McLaren-TAG |
|
1984 |
Alain Prost |
McLaren-TAG |
|
1983 |
Keke Rosberg |
Williams-Ford |
|
1982 |
Riccardo Patrese |
Brabham-Ford |
|
1981 |
Gilles Villeneuve |
Ferrari |
|
1980 |
Carlos Reutemann |
Williams-Ford |
|
1979 |
Jody Scheckter |
Ferrari |
|
1978 |
Patrick Depailler |
Tyrrell-Ford |
|
1977 |
Jody Scheckter |
Wolf-Ford |
|
1976 |
Niki Lauda |
Ferrari |
|
1975 |
Niki Lauda |
Ferrari |
|
1974 |
Ronnie Peterson |
Lotus-Ford |
|
1973 |
Jackie Stewart |
Tyrrell-Ford |
|
1972 |
Jean-Pierre Beltoise |
BRM |
|
1971 |
Jackie Stewart |
Tyrrell-Ford |
|
1970 |
Jochen Rindt |
Lotus-Ford |
|
1969 |
Graham Hill |
Lotus-Ford |
|
1968 |
Graham Hill |
Lotus-Ford |
|
1967 |
Denny Hulme |
Brabham-Repco |
|
1966 |
Jackie Stewart |
BRM |
|
1965 |
Graham Hill |
BRM |
|
1964 |
Graham Hill |
BRM |
|
1963 |
Graham Hill |
BRM |
|
1962 |
Bruce McLaren |
Cooper-Climax |
|
1961 |
Stirling Moss |
Lotus-Climax |
|
1960 |
Stirling Moss |
Lotus-Climax |
|
1959 |
Jack Brabham |
Cooper-Climax |
|
1958 |
Maurice Trintignant |
Cooper-Climax |
|
1957 |
Juan Manuel Fangio |
Maserati |
|
1956 |
Stirling Moss |
Maserati |
|
1955 |
Maurice Trintignant |
Ferrari |
|
1954 |
Not held |
|
|
– |
||
|
1951 |
||
|
1950 |
Juan Manuel Fangio |
Alfa Romeo |
Multiple Winners (Drivers)
|
# Wins |
Driver |
Years Won |
|
6 |
Ayrton Senna |
1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 |
|
5 |
Graham Hill |
1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969 |
|
Michael Schumacher |
1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 |
|
|
4 |
Alain Prost |
1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 |
|
3 |
Stirling Moss |
1956, 1960, 1961 |
|
Jackie Stewart |
1966, 1971, 1973 |
|
|
Nico Rosberg |
2013, 2014, 2015 |
|
|
2 |
Juan Manuel Fangio |
1950, 1957 |
|
Maurice Trintignant |
1955, 1958 |
|
|
Niki Lauda |
1975, 1976 |
|
|
Jody Scheckter |
1977, 1979 |
|
|
David Coulthard |
2000, 2002 |
|
|
Fernando Alonso |
2006, 2007 |
|
|
Lewis Hamilton |
2008, 2016 |
|
|
Mark Webber |
2010, 2012 |
Multiple Winners (Constructors)
|
#Wins |
Constructor |
Years |
|
15 |
McLaren |
1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998,2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008 |
|
8 |
Ferrari |
1955, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1997, 1999, 2001 |
|
7 |
Lotus |
1960, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1987 |
|
5 |
BRM |
1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972 |
|
4 |
Mercedes |
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 |
|
3 |
Cooper |
1958, 1959, 1962 |
|
Tyrrell |
1971, 1973, 1978 |
|
|
Williams |
1980, 1983, 2003 |
|
|
Red Bull |
2010, 2011, 2012 |
|
|
2 |
Maserati |
1956, 1957 |
|
Brabham |
1967, 1982 |
|
|
Benetton |
1994, 1995 |
|
|
Renault |
2004, 2006 |
Numbers and Facts
Most wins (driver) 6 Ayrton Senna 1987 – 1989 – 1990 – 1991 – 1992 – 1993
Most wins (constructor) 15 McLaren 1984 – 85 – 86 – 88 – 89 – 90 – 91 – 92 – 93 – 98 – 2000 – 02 – 05 – 07 – 08
Wins from pole position 27 Most recent 2014 (Nico Rosberg)
Lowest grid for past winner 14 1996 (Olivier Panis – only winner to start outside the top 10)
Most recent 1-2 finish 2014 Mercedes (Nico Rosberg-Lewis Hamilton)
Most emphatic win 1 lap 1950 – 1964 – 1967 – 1982
Closest winning margin 0.215s 1992 Ayrton Senna-Nigel Mansell
Rain-affected races 10, 1960 – 1972 – 1975 – 1982 – 1987 – 1996 – 1997 – 2008 – 2012 – 2016
Safety Car-affected races 12, 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2008 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016
Red Flag (and result declared) races 1, 1984
2-hour rule shortened races 4 1975 – 1996 – 1997 – 2008
Fastest race 2007 78 laps @ 1hr 40m 29.329s (1984 red flag race finished at 31 laps in 1hr 01m 07.740s)
Slowest race (here) 1950 100 laps @3hrs 13m 18.7s
Most pole positions (driver) 5 Ayrton Senna 1985 – 1988 – 1989 – 1990 – 1991
Most pole positions (constructor) 11 McLaren 1984 – 86 – 88 – 89 – 90 – 91 – 98 – 99 – 2001 – 05 – 07
What Happened last race here?
Lewis Hamilton won the eventful Monaco Grand Prix from Daniel Ricciardo, while Serigo Perez took third in hangeable conditions saw plenty of action.
Sebastian Vettel was fourth for Ferrari, followed by Fernando Alonso’s McLaren, while Nico Hulkenberg snatched sixth from Nico Rosberg on the run to the line.
With heavy rain hit track prior to the start, the FIA announced that the race would begin under Safety Car conditions.
The race begun properly at the start of lap eight. Ricciardo made a strong getaway, pulling out a second over Nico Rosberg.
Later on, Jolyon Palmer lost control of his Renault over the start/finish straight, slamming into the outside barriers and spearing into the wall. And the Virtual Safety Car was called.
When the race resumed, Kimi Raikkonen understeered into the barriers at the Hotel Hairpin, breaking his front wing before colliding with Romain Grosjean at Portier, putting the Ferrari out of the race.
After a mix of strategies, Ricciardo attempted to use his speed to jump Hamilton in the pits, but when he arrived in his pit box there were no tyres to be found with the Red Bull mechanics in a costly error saw Hamilton resume into the lead.
Hamilton had to resist heavy pressure from the chasing Red Bull, but despite Ricciardo’s best efforts, the Red Bull driver was unable to find a way past the Mercedes and Hamilton duly held on to claim his first victory of the season.
2016 Race Classification
|
Pos. |
Driver |
Constructor |
Time/Retired |
Grid |
|
1 |
Lewis Hamilton |
Mercedes |
1:59:29.133 |
3 |
|
2 |
Daniel Ricciardo |
Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer |
+7.252 |
1 |
|
3 |
Sergio Perez |
Force India-Mercedes |
+13.825 |
7 |
|
4 |
Sebastian Vettel |
Ferrari |
15.846 |
4 |
|
5 |
Fernando Alonso |
McLaren-Honda |
+1:25.076 |
9 |
|
6 |
Nico Hulkenberg |
Force India-Mercedes |
+1:32.999 |
5 |
|
7 |
Nico Rosberg |
Mercedes |
+1:33.290 |
2 |
|
8 |
Carlos Sainz |
Toro Rosso-Ferrari |
+1 Lap |
6 |
|
9 |
Jenson Button |
McLaren-Honda |
+1 Lap |
13 |
|
10 |
Felipe Massa |
Williams-Mercedes |
+1 Lap |
14 |
|
11 |
Esteban Gutierrez |
Haas-Ferrari |
+1 Lap |
12 |
|
12 |
Valtteri Bottas |
Williams-Mercedes |
+1 Lap |
10 |
|
13 |
Romain Grosjean |
Haas-Ferrari |
+2 Laps |
15 |
|
14 |
Pascal Wehrlein |
MRT-Mercedes |
+2 Laps |
20 |
|
15 |
Rio Haryanto |
MRT-Mercedes |
+4 Laps |
19 |
|
Ret |
Marcus Ericsson |
Sauber-Ferrari |
Collision damage |
17 |
|
Ret |
Felipe Nasr |
Sauber-Ferrari |
Collision damage |
PL |
|
Ret |
Max Verstappen |
Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer |
Accident |
PL |
|
Ret |
Kevin Magnussen |
Renault |
Collision damage |
16 |
|
Ret |
Daniil Kvyat |
Toro Rosso-Ferrari |
Collision/Electrical |
8 |
|
Ret |
Kimi Räikkönen |
Ferrari |
Accident damage |
11 |
|
Ret |
Jolyon Palmer |
Renault |
Accident |
18 |
Did you know?
DRIVERS
✪ Sebastian Vettel Vettel has not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in
Belgium, (BEL, ITA, SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)
✪ Vettel will be looking for a 75th F1 front row this weekend
✪ Lewis Hamilton is just 4 pole positions from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has taken
pole 38 times already. That is over 40% of all races he’s started for the team (38/ 81 = 46.9%). He is also just 1 behind Ayrton Senna’s (second-best) career total of 65 pole
positions. Clearly he could equal Senna’s total on Saturday
✪ Hamilton in Spain beat Jim Clark’s career total of 11 F1 hat-tricks (pole, win and fastest lap). Only Michael Schumacher with 22 F1 hat-tricks has now scored more than
Hamilton (12)
✪ Hamilton has won (55) 28.5% of all GP he’s started (193) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. This is how he compares:-
- Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Hamilton 28.5%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%,
- S. Moss 24.2% 10. Vettel 24.0% (44/ 183),
✪ Hamilton has now led 103 different F1 Grand Prix races. Only Michael Schumacher has led more (142)
✪ Valtteri Bottas has led 378 km of F1 race laps. It is the same distance led by Jean-Pierre Beltoise who scored his one and only F1 victory here 45 years ago driving a
BRM. The very wet race proved to be BRM’s final F1 race win
✪ Bottas has yet to record a top 10 finish in Monaco in 4 starts to date. His best result here is 12th in 2013 and again last year
✪ The Spanish Grand Prix marked the first anniversary of Max Verstappen’s first Grand Prix win. He has until the Singapore Grand Prix in September to win a second
while still a teenager. (20th birthday on September 30th 2017). He is of course, so far the only teenager in F1 history to win a F1 World Championship Grand Prix and could
still become the only teenager to take pole position too for a F1 World Championship Grand Prix. Max and Ricardo Rodriguez who started the 1961 Italian Grand Prix
from P2 in his Ferrari when aged 19 years and 208 days are the only teenage drivers to date to have started a Grand Prix from the front row (Max the youngest, at the
2016 Belgian Grand Prix where he started P2 he was aged18 years and 333 days
✪ Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the Mexican driver with the most F1 podiums (currently =1 with Pedro Rodriguez on 7)
✪ Fernando Alonso in Spain finally ensured that every 2017 driver who entered a race to that point had been around for the waving of the chequered flag for at least 1
Grand Prix. Jenson Button now needs to be circulating when the Monaco Grand Prix finishes to keep that record going
✪ On his return to F1 Button is scheduled to equal Michael Schumacher’s 306 F1 Grand Prix starts. Only Rubens Barrichello has started more (326)
CONSTRUCTORS
✪ Mercedes in Monaco will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 49th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams
✪ Mercedes’s fastest lap of the race in Spain courtesy of Lewis Hamilton was the marque’s 50th as a F1 World Championship constructor
✪ Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events
✪ Ferrari has still not scored consecutive pole positions since Fernando Alonso took pole for the Scuderia at the 2012 British and German Grand Prix and has still not scored a consecutive front row lock-out since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa lock-out the front row for the 2006 US and French Grand Prix
✪ Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers podium in 101 different F1 Grand Prix
✪ The current Williams team traces its origins back to the setting up of Williams Grand Prix Engineering by Frank Williams and Patrick Head in 1977. This year the team will
be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor
running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone
in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for
Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and ex-works Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter
Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head and started a new team all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off
✪ Force India is the only constructors to have finished both cars in each of the 5 Grand Prix so far this season
MONACO GRAND PRIX
✪ This year is the 75th Monaco Grand Prix (the figure includes pre-WWII races and sportscar-only Grand Prix)
✪ At least 1 Safety Car intervention has interrupted the Monaco Grand Prix in each of the last 7 races. All told, since 2003 12 Monaco Grand Prix have featured a Safety Car
intervention at some point during the race ie 12 of last 14 races (86%)
✪ Olivier Panis who won here in 1996 is still the only driver to win the Monaco Grand Prix and to have started the race he won from a grid start outside of the top 10. Panis’s
win remains also the most recent F1 race win by a French driver
✪ Both of Lewis Hamilton’s Monaco Grand Prix wins have come off a P3 grid start
✪ Mercedes is chasing a 5th Monaco grand Prix win in a row. The record is 6 in a row by McLaren between 1988 and 1993 and they are the only constructor in the World
Championship history of the event to have won more than 4 in succession. Mercedes and BRM (1963 to 1966) have both won 4 in a row
Driver’s Championship standing
|
POS |
DRIVER |
POINTS |
|
1 |
Sebastian Vettel |
104 |
|
2 |
Lewis Hamilton |
98 |
|
3 |
Valtteri Bottas |
63 |
|
4 |
Kimi Raikkonen |
49 |
|
5 |
Daniel Ricciardo |
37 |
|
6 |
Max Verstappen |
35 |
|
7 |
Sergio Perez |
34 |
|
8 |
Esteban Ocon |
19 |
|
9 |
Felipe Massa |
18 |
|
10 |
Carlos Sainz |
17 |
|
11 |
Nico Hulkenberg |
14 |
|
12 |
Romain Grosjean |
5 |
|
13 |
Pascal Wehrlein |
4 |
|
14 |
Kevin Magnussen |
4 |
|
15 |
Daniil Kvyat |
4 |
|
16 |
Marcus Ericsson |
0 |
|
17 |
Lance Stroll |
0 |
|
18 |
Fernando Alonso |
0 |
|
19 |
Antonio Giovinazzi |
0 |
|
20 |
Jolyon Palmer |
0 |
|
21 |
Marcus Ericsson |
0 |
Constructor’s Championship standing
|
POS |
CONSTRUCTOR |
POINTS |
|
1 |
Mercedes |
161 |
|
2 |
Ferrari |
153 |
|
3 |
Red Bull/Renault |
72 |
|
4 |
Force India/Mercedes |
53 |
|
5 |
Toro Rosso/Renault |
21 |
|
6 |
Williams/Mercedes |
18 |
|
7 |
Renault |
14 |
|
8 |
Haas/Ferrari |
9 |
|
9 |
Sauber/Ferrari |
4 |
|
10 |
McLaren/Honda |
0 |
Driver’s penalty points:
|
Driver |
Penalty points |
|
Jolyon Palmer |
7 |
|
Sebastian Vettel |
6 |
|
Pascal Wehrlein |
6 |
|
Daniil Kvyat |
5 |
|
Carlos Sainz |
5 |
|
Kevin Magnussen |
5 |
|
Nico Hulkenberg |
4 |
|
Esteban Ocon |
4 |
|
Sergio Perez |
3 |
|
Romain Grosjean |
3 |
|
Stoffel Vandoorne |
3 |
|
Valtteri Bottas |
2 |
|
Kimi Raikkonen |
2 |
|
Marcus Erricson |
2 |
|
Felipe Massa |
2 |
|
Lewis Hamilton |
2 |
|
Max Verstappen |
1 |
