Back where it belongs on the calendar, Formula 1 began its visit to Monaco on Friday. Typically, Friday has been a quiet day, with the first practices coming on Thursday then the third practice, and qualifying on Saturday. However, with the Spanish Grand Prix being held just one week ago, the series changed the usual schedule to assist teams with travel and rest. The important thing is that the Monaco Grand Prix will be the lead race once again for what feels like a fantastic day in motorsports, with the Indianapolis 500 following and the Coca-Cola 600 rounding out the day.
While Monaco is often a high-speed show of expensive cars following each other in a principality filled with the wealthy elite, the race still holds the weight of being a notable and historic venue. The winnerʻs represent a veritable whoʻs who of F1, with Ayrton Senna atop the list with six wins at Monaco. Michael Schumacher earned five wins on the track during his career. Even Nico Rosberg, whoʻs career is worth further scrutiny at some point, grabbed three wins. As far as active drivers go, the rate of success is a different story.
Even Sir Lewis Hamilton, he of 103 race wins, has accumulated only three wins at the track. Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel both have scored two wins apiece, with Daniel Ricciardo and defending series champion Max Verstappen notching a win each.
Absent from the list, and in what is becoming ironic or paradoxical fashion, Charles Leclerc seems to suffer nothing but misfortune at his home track. Since becoming an F1 driver in 2018, his race results at Monaco have been nothing but DNFS, one coming with Sauber and two with Ferrari (reminder that the Monaco GP was canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic). His efforts at the track are starting to become known as a curse and made humorous by the fact that he crashed Niki Laudaʻs historic Ferrari just recently while driving the track–though it should be noted that the car failed…
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