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Following the publication of the pre-regulations at the beginning of September, the Organizing Committee of the 27th Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique is pleased to announce that the 2025 Supplementary Regulations for the event are now available online.
Download the supplementary regulations
You have until Monday, November 4, 2024 to register. Until then, enjoy reading it…
Le règlement particulier du 𝗥𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲-𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 2025 est en ligne ! 📖
🚨 Il est encore temps de vous inscrire sur le site https://t.co/MBgWmFCuYG pour participer 🤩#RallyeMonteCarloHistorique pic.twitter.com/e4UHIb3gGf
— Automobile Club de Monaco (@ACM_Media) October 9, 2024
With a secret route of 14 Regularity Special Races (SR), totalling over 250 kilometers of timed sections, this 8th edition of the 100% electric version of Rallye Monte-Carlo, the 11th and penultimate round of the Bridgestone FIA ecoRally Cup 2024, is already shaping up, on paper, to be far more challenging than its predecessor!
The first thing you notice on reading the entry list, and the proof of the success of this 8th E-Rallye Monte-Carlo, is the presence of 18 car manufacturers with 40 different models, for a total of 63 crews from 17 different nationalities! This unprecedented line-up once again makes the Monegasque event the benchmark international round of the Bridgestone FIA ecoRally Cup!
This enthusiasm is the reward for the continuing efforts of the Organizing Committee of Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM) to promote mobility, which have been tirelessly pursued since the creation of the very first Rallye Monte-Carlo des Véhicules Électriques in 1995.
Grand Depart on Casino Square
This year’s “Grand Départ” will once again take place in the sumptuous setting of Monte Carlo’s Casino Square. On the menu: 4 intense legs, condensed and scheduled over 3 French departments (Alpes de Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes and Var) with, as last year, a short jaunt to the heights of the Italian Riviera. The event’s route is even more demanding than before, according to the ACM Organizing Committee, particularly in terms of terrain difficulty.
For once, historic special stages from the legendary “Monte-Carlo” are on the programme. But that’s not all! All-new, never-before-seen stages are also on the agenda, as a potential list of special stages for the future. Autonomy, increasingly extended for new-generation vehicles, will ultimately be one of the keys to success for competitors and manufacturers alike. Over the years, more and more of them have come to try to add their names to the event’s honours list.
Monaco On: Over 500 charging points in the Principality!
Finally, there will be no need to organize a specific recharging park: the capacity of the Monaco On charging stations in the Principality, with 575 charging points in service in public parking lots, will enable competitors to recharge their vehicles easily, within the time limits imposed by the organization…
Main Entries
N° 1 – Michal ZDARSKY (CZE) / Jakub NABELEK (CZE) – HYUNDAI KONA
– FIA ecoRally Cup 2023 Champions
– Leaders, Bridgestone FIA ecoRally Cup 2024 provisional standings (133.5 points)
N° 2 – Guido GUERRINI (ITA) / Artur PRUSAK (POL) – KIA E-NIRO
– ENEC FIA 2020 Vice-Champion
– ENEC FIA Co-Driver Champion 2016 & 2017
– Vice-Champions FIA ecoRally Cup 2022 & 2023
– 2nd of the Bridgestone FIA ecoRally Cup 2024 provisional standings (120.5 points)
– A. Prusak, Winner E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2016 with Thierry BENCHETRIT (Toyota Miraï)
N° 3 – Eneko CONDE (ESP) / Lukas SERGNESE (ESP) – KIA EV6 GT
– FIA ecoRally Cup 2022 Champions
– 3rd of the Bridgestone FIA ecoRally Cup 2023
– Winners E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2023 (KIA E-NIRO)
N° 5 – Didier MALGA (FRA) / Anne-Valérie BONNEL (FRA) – TESLA 3
– Winners E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2017 (Tesla S)
– 2nd E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2018 (Tesla S)
– ENEC FIA Champions 2018
N° 6 – Jacques PASTOR (MCO) / Fulvio GAZZOLA (ITA) – KIA EV6
– Winner E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2022 (Kia EV6)
– 3rd E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2018, with Serge PASTOR (Toyota Miraï)
N° 7 – Michel DECREMER (BEL) / Jennifer HUGO (BEL) – VW ID3 PRO S
– Winners Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique 2024 (Opel Ascona 400)
N° 9 – Beitske VISSER (NL) / Arthur KAMMERER (DEU) – POLESTAR 2
– Winner WSK Masters Series KZ2 (Karting) 2010
– 2nd W-Series (Single Seater) 2019 & 2022
– 13th in the 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours
N° 10 – Bernard HEINE (BEL) / Valerie PIETTE (BEL) – VW ID3 PRO S
– 3rd E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2023 (VW ID3)
N° 11 – Frédéric LANSIAUX (FRA) / Nicolas BUHOT (FRA) – VW ID3 GTX
– Winners E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2021 (VW ID4)
N° 17 – Bruno THIRY (BEL) / Laurent SECRETIN (BEL) – VW ID4
– European Rally Champion 2003
N° 23 – Stefano MODENA (ITA) / Jack Scarlett RICHARDSON (GBR) – AUDI E-TRON
– Former F1 driver – 70 GP contested – 3rd Monaco Grand Prix 1989
N° 23 – Christophe PONSET (FRA) / Serge PASTOR (FRA) – KIA E-NIRO
– 2nd E-Rallye Monte-Carlo 2016 (Renault Zoe)
– 3rd Rallye Monte Carlo New Energies 2015 (Toyota Prius)
Schedule 2024
Administrative and technical scrutineering – Wednesday, October 23 from 5am to 11am
LEG 1: MONACO – MONACO – Wednesday, October 23
Start from Monaco, Casino Square, at 2pm
Calibration zone / Shakedown / 2 Regularity Stages (RS 1/2) to be run
Entry into Parc Fermé at 10:50pm
LEG 2: MONACO – MONACO – Thursday, October 24
Start from Monaco at 7:30am
4 Regularity Stages (RS 3/4/5/6) to be contested
Entry into Parc Fermé at 10: 20pm
LEG 3: MONACO – MONACO – Friday, October 25
Start from Monaco at 7:30am
4 Regularity Stages (RS 7/8/9/10) to be contested
Entry into Parc Fermé at 10:20pm
LEG 4: MONACO – MONACO – Saturday, October 26
Start from Monaco at 7:30am
4 Regularity Stages (RS 11/12/13/14) to be run
Entry into Parc Fermé at 3:30pm
Gala dinner and prize-giving ceremony at 8:30pm
About E-Rallye Monte-Carlo
A genuine road competition, reserved for 100% Electric vehicles (without the use of an extender), this regularity event is now very popular with automakers who come to demonstrate the technological and avant-garde potential of their vehicles in real-life conditions. Since it was granted a new name in 2016, following “Rallye Monte-Carlo des Véhicules Électriques” (from 1995 to 1999), then “Rallye Monte-Carlo Fuel Cell & Hybrids” (2005, 2006), then “Rallye Monte-Carlo des Véhicules à Energie Alternative” (from 2007 to 2011) and “Rallye Monte-Carlo des Energies Nouvelles / Rallye Monte-Carlo ZENN” (from 2012 to 2015), this 8th opus of E-Rallye Monte-Carlo counts for the Bridgestone FIA ecoRally Cup 2024.
The countdown is on! The big week of the 93rd Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo gets underway in 4 months’ time. The Rally Guide 1 is already available to future competitors! The route of Stage 1 has also been slightly modified.
The Organising Committee has unveiled the Rally Guide 1, which can be downloaded from the Competitor Area > Official Documents. This document will help future competitors to prepare for this 93rd edition in the best possible way.
As tradition dictates, the route for the 2025 edition is expected to be challenging and selective, and will once again include many difficulties. Stage 1 has been slightly modified compared to the version presented last July. As a result, SS2 will be run between Faucon-du-Caire and Bréziers (19.20km / 7.53pm). The stage will be run at night, a few hours after the official start from Monaco’s Place du Casino on Thursday 23 January 2025.
Below is the calendar of upcoming publications:
Join us from 20 to 26 January 2025 for the 93rd Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo.
Year after year, Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique continues to stand out for the diversity and authenticity of its route. The Organising Committee of Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM) wanted the 2025 edition to be even more attractive with, as usual, a majority of Regularity Stages (RS) that have helped writing the event’s great history! And there is no doubt that many more competitors will be battling it out for overall victory, in a bid to dethrone Michel Decremer and Jennifer Hugo, winners of the 2024 event in their 1979 Opel Ascona 400.
As usual, the historic version of Rallye Monte-Carlo is reserved to cars that took part in former editions of Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo, and next year to models having raced between 1911 and 1983. The 2025 event is scheduled to kick off on Thursday January 30, just four days after the finish of the 93rd Monte Carlo Automobile Rally. The competitors authorised to take the start of this 27th edition of Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique will set off successively from Bad Homburg, Reims, Monte-Carlo and Turin. Their common destination is Place du Champ de Mars in Valence, the prefecture of the Drôme department and a traditional stopover town, which the first competitors will reach on the afternoon of Friday January 31.
The first four regularity stages are scheduled for the following day, Saturday February 1, included in a Classification Leg (with the first competitor starting at 7:30am). This first day of the race will not be a restful one for the competitors, however, starting with a classic of the Vercors massif: Col Gaudissart – La Cîme du Mas / SR 1 / 9:20am and its atypical Col de l’Écharasson (1146 m). Then on to Les Nonnières – Chichilianne / SR 2 / 11:20am and its dreaded Col de Menée (1402 m) before the mid-day time check organised in Clelles, home of the rally in the Dauphiné area, from 12:00. The next stage will be La Piarre – Valdrôme / SR 3 / 1:20pm, including the crossing of Col de Carabès (1261 m), the natural border between the Hautes-Alpes and Drôme departments. Back to “Drôme Provençale” to finish the day with La Motte-Chalancon – Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert / SR 4 / 2:30pm via Col de Chamauche (1037 m). A final time check is scheduled in Crest at 4:00pm, to regulate the competitors expected at Champ de Mars in Valence from 4:55pm.
Competitors will head for Ardèche on Sunday February 2 at 7:30am for Part 1 of the Common Leg. They will first have to reach Privas for a time check (8:45am) before starting the day with the new Saint-Julien-du-Gua – Col des Quatre Vios / SR 5 / 09.25am. This will be followed by a welcome stop-over on the road, in Vals-les-Bains, as in the old days. Next will come the classic version of Burzet – Saint-Martial / SR 6 / 11:35am via the Ray-Pic waterfall. The mid-day break is scheduled on Market Square in Saint-Agrève from 1.15pm, where competitors and friends will enjoy a tasting of local produce, before continuing with a new stage Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid – Vanosc / SR 7 / 1.40pm followed by Saint-Pierre-sur-Doux – Lalouvesc / SR 8 / 3.10pm. The return to Valence (5:30pm) is once again preceded by a traditional popular and festive stopover on Quai Farconnet in Tournon-sur-Rhône from 4:45pm.
Heading for the Vercors, Diois and Baronnies massifs is the plan for Monday February 3 at 7:30am for Part 2 of the Common Leg. The longest day of the rally will begin with the ascent of Col de Tourniol (1145m) between Barbières – Gigors-et-Lozeron / SR 9 / 8:35am. The difficulties will increase with the next stage, Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert – Chalancon / SR 10 / 10:40am, taking competitors over Col de Muse (932m), Col de Chamauche (1037m) and Col de la Croix (722m). The mid-day break is scheduled in Buis les Baronnies at 12:45pm, before the longest stage of the rally, Montauban-sur-l’Ouvèze – Roussieux / SR 11 / 1:25pm, covering some 40km and including Col de Perty (1302m), Col de Reychasset (1052m) and Col de Pierre-Vesce (1013m). The final difficulty on this leg will be Recoubeau-Jansac – Pennes-le-Sec / SR 12 / 3:00pm and the crossing of Col de Pennes (1040 m). The last stop of the day before the return to Valence (5:15pm)will be set, as on the previous day, on Place du Champ de Mars in Crest, with a time check from 4:20pm.
On Tuesday February 4, the start from Valence is scheduled for 7am. This 3rd and final part of the Common Leg will begin with La Charce – Rosans / SR 13 / 9am and its Col de Pommerol (1072m). The stage continues with “Sisteron – Thoard / SR 14 / 10h40” and its anthological Col de Fontbelle (1304m). Finally, to complete the descent to the Principality of Monaco, the remaining competitors will head for Briançonnet – Entrevaux / SR 15 / 2pm, with Col du Buis (1196m) and Col de Félines (926m) on the cards. Entry into Parc Fermé in Monaco will be scheduled from 4:20pm onwards, preceded by a time check at La Turbie from 3:55pm.
The start of the Final Leg, scheduled for the night of Tuesday February 4 to Wednesday 5, will take place in Monaco from 9pm. On the menu for this final night are two legendary stages of the Monegasque event, including Col de Braus – Lantosque / SR 16 / 10:15pm, with no fewer than four passes on the way, including Col de l’Ablé (1149m), Col de l’Orme (1005m), Col Saint-Roch (990m) and Col de la Porte (1057m). Last and not least, the last confrontation will happen between La Bollène-Vésubie – Moulinet / SR 17 / 11:25pm including, as a judge of peace, the majestic Col de Turini (1607m). The race is due to finish in Monaco’s Port Hercule from 1:10am.
Finally, in keeping with tradition, the Gala Evening and Prize Giving Ceremony will take place on the evening of Wednesday February 5 in the prestigious Salle des Etoiles at Monte-Carlo Sporting Club.
Note: Legs, Stages, Stage lengths and timings are given as an indication until official publication of the itinerary.
The Official Ticket Sales for the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2025 are now open. Book your tickets now!
After the outstanding 2024 vintage, which saw Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) triumph on the streets of his home race, Formula 1 is back in the Principality of Monaco in 2025. For the Round 8 of the 2025 World Championship, come and enjoy a unique experience in the Principality! The programme includes 4 days of motor sport with 4 different series (F1 / F2 / F3 / Porsche Supercup) in the legendary setting of the Monaco Circuit.
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The Official Ticket Sales for the 2025 Monaco E-Prix are now open! You can already book your tickets for this 8th edition, which for the first time will be held over 2 days, on Saturday 03 and Sunday 04 May 2025.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Electric Car Championship on the Monaco Circuit, spectators will have the opportunity to experience 2 days of motorsport in 2025, on a track that saw almost 200 overtakes during the last edition. As spectacular as ever from a sporting point of view, the Monaco E-Prix is no less a popular event. There will be plenty of entertainment at the Allianz Fan Village on Quai Antoine 1er.
Your 2-day package from €50
Grandstand tickets start at €30. With 2 days of competition under your belt, check out our offers for the whole weekend!
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As always, the Organising Committee of Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM) hopes that this 93rd edition of Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo will be a highly selective event, and perhaps even more so than previous editions. So let us take a look at this inaugural round of the 2025 FIA World Rally Championship* (WRC), which should appeal to professional drivers and amateurs alike…
Following on from the recce scheduled from Monday January 20 to Wednesday January 22, the competitors authorised to take part will have their first opportunity to test themselves in race conditions during the Shakedown (3.28km) from 4:01 pm on Wednesday afternoon. This is the route introduced in 2017, along Route de la Garde in Gap, the city which hosted the event from 2014 to 2021 and has been chosen again since 2024.
The official start of the 93rd Rallye Automobile Monte-Carlo is scheduled for the following day, on Thursday January 23 at 2:30 pm, from Casino Square in Monaco. On the menu for this first 100% nightly leg are three special stages totalling 52.23 kilometres. Organised in the departments of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Hautes-Alpes, the special stages of Digne-les-Bains / Chaudon-Norante (SS1 – 19.01 km – 6.05 pm), Esparron / Oze (SS2 – 18.32 km – 7.53 pm ) and Avançon / Notre-Dame-du-Laus (SS3 – 14.90 km – 9.06 pm ), very complex in terms of tyre choices, should already make it possible to establish an initial significant hierarchy.
Two departments (Hautes-Alpes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) will host the second day of racing, on Friday January 24, totalling 107.38 kilometres against the clock. With a loop of three special stages to be contested twice, comprising Saint-Maurice / Aubessagne (SS4/7 – 18.70 km – 9.31 am / 3.23 pm), Saint-Léger-les-Mélèzes / La Bâtie-Neuve (SS5/8 – 16.68 km – 10.34 am / 4.26 pm ) and La Bréole / Selonnet (SS 6/9 – 18.31 km – 11.42 am / 5.34 pm), this 2nd leg will only confirm the increasing pace of difficulties.
The third day of racing, on Saturday January 25, is mainly based in the Drôme department, with a total of 132.10 timed kilometres. With a loop of three special stages to be completed twice, this day is undoubtedly the most difficult for the crews. On the menu, La Motte-Chalancon / Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert (SS10/13 – 27.30 km – 08:59 am/2:59 pm), followed by the new Aucelon / Recoubeau-Jansac (SS11/14 – 20.91 km – 10:05 am/4:05 pm),and La Bâtie-des-Fonts / Aspremont (SS12/15 – 17.84 km – 11:08 am/5:08 pm).
Finally, on Sunday January 26, three stages totalling 51.88 kilometres will be contested between Gap and Monaco, on the following timed sectors: Avançon / Notre-Dame-du-Laus (SS16 – 14.90 km – 6:39 am), Digne-les-Bains / Chaudon-Norante (SS17 – 19.01 km – 8:32 am) and, last but not least, La Bollène-Vésubie / Peïra-Cava (SS 18 – 17.97 km – 12:15 pm) which will count as the Power Stage. The prize-giving ceremony will take place on Casino Square in Monaco from 4:15 pm…
Kilometres and times given as an indication until the official publication of the route.
Monaco, July 22, 2024
This year, the Big Start will once again take place in the sumptuous setting of Casino Square in Monte-Carlo. On the menu, from Thursday to Saturday, there will be 4 very intense legs, condensed and scheduled over 3 French departments (Alpes de Haute-Provence, Alpes-Maritimes and Var) and, as of last year, a short jaunt planned on the heights of the Italian Riviera. The Organising Committee of Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM) is hoping to make the event even more challenging than before, particularly in terms of the difficulty of the terrain: for once, some historic special stages of the legendary Monte Carlo Rally will be on the menu. But that’s not all! A bunch of new regularity stages will be introduced, a host of brand new portions meant to play a part in the near future of the event. Last but not least, the ever-increasing autonomy of new-generation vehicles should ultimately be one of the keys to success for the competitors and manufacturers who have turned out in ever-greater numbers over the recent years, in order to try and add their names to the event’s list of winners…
Provisional programme 2024
Times given for information only, subject to official publication of the regulations.
Leg 1: MONACO – MONACO – Wednesday 23 October
Start from Monaco, Casino Square, at 2 pm.
Calibration zone / Shakedown / 2 Regularity Stages (SR 1 and 2) to be run
Entry into Parc Fermé at 10:50pm
Leg 2: MONACO – MONACO – Thursday 24 October
Start from Monaco at 7:30am
4 Regularity Stages (SR3, 4, 5 and 6) to be contested
Entry into Parc Fermé at 10:20pm
Leg 3: MONACO – MONACO – Friday 25 October
Start from Monaco at 7:30am
4 Regularity Stages (SR7, 8, 9 and 10) to be contested
Entry into Parc Fermé at 10:20pm
Leg 4: MONACO – MONACO – Saturday 26 October
Start from Monaco at 7:30am
4 Regularity Stages (SR11, 12, 13 and 14) to be contested
Entry into Parc Fermé at 2:30 pm
Closing dinner and prize-giving at 8:30pm
About E-Rallye Monte-Carlo
A genuine road competition, reserved for 100% electric vehicles, without the use of an extender, this regularity event is now very popular with car manufacturers and tuners, who come to demonstrate the technological and avant-garde potential of their vehicles under real conditions. It sports a new name since 2016, following on from “Rallye Monte-Carlo des Véhicules Électriques” (from 1995 to 1999), then “Rallye Monte-Carlo Fuel Cell & Hybrids” (2005, 2006), then “Rallye Monte-Carlo des Véhicules à Energie Alternative” (from 2007 to 2011) and eventually “Rallye Monte-Carlo des Energies Nouvelles / Rallye Monte-Carlo ZENN” (from 2012 to 2015). So this is the 8th edition of E-Rallye Monte-Carlo, counting for the Bridgestone FIA ecoRally Cup 2024…
In 2025, the Principality of Monaco will be hosting 2 rounds of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship over the same weekend for the first time, as part of Season 11. The Monaco E-Prix will be held on Saturday 03 and Sunday 04 May 2025.
With 17 races on the programme for season 11, new destinations (Miami, Jarkata), and a new car with the GEN3 EVO (0-60 mph in just 1.82 seconds), Formula E moves into a new era.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the electric single-seater Championship on the Monaco Circuit, fans will have the opportunity to experience 2 days of motorsport in 2025, on a track which saw almost 200 overtakes in the last edition.
Still as spectacular as ever from a sporting aspect, the Monaco E-Prix is also a popular event. The Allianz Fan Village on Quai Antoine 1er offers a host of entertainment.
In 7 editions, some famous names have already added their names to the list of winners: Sébastien Buemi, Jean-Éric Vergne, Antonio Felix Da Costa, Stoffel Vandoorne, Nick Cassidy and Mitch Evans.
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In the end, it was an 81st Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco with no surprise, apart from the first lap, and no suspense until the 78th lap, everything having been settled in advance. It all came down to tea time on Saturday, when qualifying was of a very high standard. And 24 hours later, Charles Leclerc was able to climb onto the top of the princely podium that he had dreamed of since he was a child. He will forever be the first Monegasque to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco, and he deserves it.
On the podium, with the princely family surrounding him, Charles the Victorious was accompanied by his new best friend, Oscar Piastri (McLaren), and his future ex-teammate at Ferrari, Carlos Sainz. Everyone was very moved, as was Frédéric Vasseur, the main architect of the Scuderia’s revival which nobody can doubt any more. Throughout the weekend, there was not a single mistake from the men in red, who had ruined, in the pits, Leclerc’s two previous pole positions in the Principality.
Charles Leclerc: “I never believed in a curse [in Monaco]”.
Even the crazy first lap of this 81st Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco didn’t faze or destabilise them, and they calmly put Sainz’s Ferrari back in shape at the end of the first lap, when a red flag brutally interrupted proceedings for three quarters of an hour. This was due to a collision with potentially dramatic consequences between the Red Bull of ‘Checo’ Pérez and the two Haas cars of Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg, who had started from the back of the grid.
Sainz had a tyre punctured by a rival at the start, so he missed braking entering the Casino section. A few seconds later, on the descent to the Fairmont, Esteban Ocon flew off the front wheel of his Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly. That was a lot of incidents for a first lap, there were carbon debris everywhere, so the race direction wisely decided to stop everything, giving time for everyone to recover.
A new start
When the race restarted for 16 of the 20 drivers at 3.45pm, some were on hard tyres (the first four) and others on medium tyres (in the chasing pack), nobody knowing which was the best solution. And then nothing happened, because Leclerc set the pace, very slowly, that was needed to preserve the tyres right to the end. And nobody behind the Ferrari, not even the McLaren drivers, tried to reverse the course of this inexorable victory, awaited by all the people of Monaco.
It was a logical and well-deserved victory, meticulously prepared by the entire Scuderia team, and there could be many more to come. It is only Charles Leclerc’s 6th win in F1, two years after his previous one (Austria 2022), but it brings the Monegasque back to 31 points of Max Verstappen. The three-time reigning world champion took 6th place in this uneventful race… after a first lap worthy of “Fast and Furious”. The race ended with the top ten on the grid in the top ten places overall.
There are still 16 Grands Prix to be contested in 2024 and anything is possible, including a duel between Verstappen and Leclerc for the world title. We cannot wait for the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal in mid-June!
