F1 plans to improve Monaco Grand Prix – but problems identified

Key F1 figures have discussed plans to improve the Monaco Grand Prix while identifying the risks associated with the changes.

Viewers complained about the spectacle of last Sunday's historic race, despite an emotional victory by Charles Leclerc.

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Apart from a few incidents on the first lap, the race was a procession around Monte Carlo with no overtaking in the top 10.

THE the first 10 finish in the order of their starting grid for the first time in F1 history, calling into question the current format of the Monaco Grand Prix.

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Overtaking is notoriously difficult around Monaco, with modern F1 cars too wide to run, as evidenced by the Kevin Magnussen, Sergio Perez And Esteban Ocon This year.

F1 stars including Lewis Hamilton requested “special tires” to create more pit stops, with George Russell suggesting that they only use soft tires in the future.

According to Motorsport.com, Pirelli's head of motor racing and F1, Mario Isola, has said he would be open to a Monaco Grand Prix using only soft tires, while also highlighting the limitations of the idea.

“What is important, in my opinion, is that we have to consider not only the tires, but also why a team decides to stop or not,” Isola said.

“I remember many years ago when there was this proposal (to force two stops), we had the discussion and the teams asked their strategy engineers to do a simulation.

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“The result was that everyone came back with more or less the same strategy. So, by adding constraints, we are not pushing them to have different strategies or approaches to racing, but simply to converge towards the same one. And that's not what we want.

“What we want is to have a mix of one and two stops, with different compounds used.

“To solve the problem, we need to work together to sit down, look at all the proposals, do a simulation and understand what the best approach is.”

When asked what he thought would be the best solution for Monaco, Isola replied “a wider circuit”.

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