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Posted on Friday, 15 February 2008 |
 The Monaco Grand Prix is undoubtedly one of the most unique and exciting Grand Prix's in the entire Formula One calendar. It's narrow winding streets and unyielding barriers create admittedly one of the slowest Grand Prix on the circuit but also one of the most technically challenging, for both the teams and the drivers. The street circuit presents a unique set of problems for the cars and the drivers.
It is well known however, that the drivers love it. For many of them it is their home circuit as many choose to live in the tiny tax haven principality but this is not the reason they love, the reasons they love it are more attuned to machismo and ego than anything to do with local pride. Simply put, Monaco requires balls, big ones, to get around it quickly and everyone knows it. They must drive inch perfect at all times under the certain knowledge that one wrong wheel print will result in catastrophic destruction against the armco barriers.
If a driver can crack Monaco then he had made his reputation. At any other circuit a driver may be lucky, may have had the best tyres, the best team, the most suitable engine, the best aero package, the quickest pit stop. In Monaco none of this makes much difference, the pressure is all on the driver because nothing else will compensate. Nothing else can make the difference and if a driver pulls out all the stops and shines at Monaco then he joins a roll call of the greatest names in motor racing history.
Read back through the results, through the years, and you will find that there has never been a 'lucky' winner at the Monaco Grand Prix, only the best drivers in the world have conqueured this small twisty goliath of a track. |
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