Coming up
The management of the “Corps des Commissaires” will meet in the next few days to validate the presence of the new candidates in all the teams. The General Meeting will then take place on 25 April to receive the latest information, followed by the handover of equipment and uniforms on 28 & 29 April before taking part in the 6th Monaco E-Prix (6 May) and the 80th Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco (25-28 May).

How to become a Marshal?
All the conditions of application are specified in the following document: https://acm.mc/corps-des-commissaires-2/devenir-commissaire-de-lacm/

Registration for the 2023 track events will start in September 2023.

For further information, please contact the Secretariat of the “Corps des Commissaires” by phone: (+377) 93 15 26 16

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Since 6^th March, the big transformation of the Principality of Monaco into a real racetrack has started. For almost 2 months (7 weeks to be exact), Automobile Club de Monaco staff and its suppliers will be mobilised to prepare this iconic urban circuit in order to welcome Formula E cars for the 6th Monaco E-Prix (6th May) and Formula 1 cars for the 80th F1 Grand Prix de Monaco (25th-28th May) in the best conditions.

Almost 50% of the circuit resurfaced!

In 2023, the asphalt repair work on the roads used by the Monegasque track will be completed at the beginning of the build-up period and will result in almost 50% of the track being resurfaced. This year, 3 sectors are affected: the Boulevard Albert 1er (starting grid and pit lane), the Tunnel Louis II and the Darse Sud. Nearly 15,000 m2 of asphalt were repaired, the equivalent of about 1,800 tonnes of new surface.

This is always an impressive job, carried out at night by the teams of the Department of Urban Development and SIVIA’M, to avoid disturbing road traffic in the Principality. Between the planning phases of the upper part of the asphalt and the application of the new asphalt the following night, 2 nightly sessions are necessary for each sector. The aim was to ensure that the surface meets international standards and provides the cars with an optimum surface, all on routes exposed to intense road traffic all year round.

See the pictures of the repair work on the asphalt of the Circuit de Monaco (© ACM – Folleté).

Emblematic building of the circuit, real nerve centre of the events, the Race Direction began its assembly this week. This 1500m² structure is composed by 77 modules, with a total surface of 1500m². These modules will make up the 5 levels of the building (17m high) which will house the two control rooms of the circuit, meeting rooms and areas reserved for guests.

See you on Saturday 6th May 2023 for the 6th edition of the Monaco E-Prix, which will be the 9th round of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

A single price of €30 is applied for grandstand entry. Tickets for children under 16 accompanied by an adult are completely free.

The 2023 Monaco E-Prix will take place over a full day. Free practice sessions, qualifying, race, on-track demonstration: experience non-stop action both on and off the track! Enjoy activities and the world of Formula E at the Allianz Fan Village.

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How to book?

• Online: www.monaco-eprix.com
• Ticketing Office: 44, rue Grimaldi – 98000 Monaco

For any questions or enquiries, please contact us below : [email protected] / 00 377 93 15 26 24.

Don’t miss out on this fan first opportunity to get your seat and book your ticket in the grandstands for a full day of Motorsport and passion in the unique place of the Monaco Circuit.  

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Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes-EQ) won the 5th Monaco E-Prix on Saturday, starting from 4th place on the grid and perfectly managing the incidents of an intense and thrilling race from start to finish, to beat under the flag Mitch Evans (Jaguar ), who started from pole position, and Jean-Eric Vergne (DS Techeetah), which allows him to jump in the lead of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

The Belgian now holds 81 points, ahead of Vergne (75), Evans (72) and Frijns (71), after 6 rounds out of 16 scheduled this Season 8. This is Vandoorne’s third victory in Formula E, after Berlin in 2020 and Rome in 2021. Above all, it is the first victory for an electric Mercedes in Monaco, in the last season for the German brand in Formula E. And it allows Mercedes to retain the lead of the constructors’ championship with 120 points, ahead of DS Techeetah (105) and Jaguar (94). The situation is therefore in the process of settling in this Season 8.

At the start, Evans started ahead of Wehrlein, Vergne, Vandoorne, Di Grassi, Lotterer, De Vries and Frijns. Da Costa, last year’s winner, was the first to switch to Attack Mode to take 9th place, behind de Vries. In the lead, the waltz of passages to Attack Mode allowed Wehrlein, who had started alongside Evans on the front row, to take control and stay in the lead for a while. Halfway through the race, the German in a Porsche led the way, ahead of Vergne, Vandoorne and Evans.

When Wehrlein slowed down and stalled at the exit of the tunnel, the Marshalls of Automobile Club of Monaco (ACM), whose expert unit was founded 50 years ago by President Michel Boeri, swiftly pushed the Porsche towards the chicane, where he parked it for good. At that time, for maximum safety, the “Full Course Yellow”, triggered immediately by the race direction, forced all his rivals to drive at a maximum speed of 50 km/h. Too bad for JEV and Di Grassi, who had just chosen to use the Attack Mode and couldn’t take advantage of it, which served Vandoorne and Evans well.

The following incident involved the other Porsche of Andre Lotterer, pushed about the safety barrier at Sainte Dévote by the out of control Nissan of Oliver Rowland, under the eyes of a delighted Robin Frijns (Envision). Enough to cause the appearance of the Safety Car when Vandoorne had just activated his Fan Boost. There were only about ten minutes left when the race started again, with Vandoorne ahead of Evans, Vergne and di Grassi, followed by Frijns, Da Costa and Mortara. The race director then added four minutes, to take into account the neutralization by the Safety Car, and Evans used his last Attack Mode to go past Vergne and swoop down on Vandoorne, who resisted until the end to the New Zealander in a Jaguar.

So this was the composition of the final podium, ahead of Frijns, Da Costa and di Grassi, 6th, who saved the honor of Venturi, at home, while teammate Edoardo Mortara, once again cursed in the Principality, had finished the race in slow motion before parking for good. As for the day’s comeback, it was achieved by Seb Buemi (Nissan), winner of the first two editions (2015, 2017) and 9th under the checkered flag, although he started on the 22nd (and last) place on the grid.
“Monaco is one of the most special races you can win as a driver”, reacted Vandoorne, delighted, getting out of his electric Mercedes. He had already won in the Principality, in 2015, during the feature GP2 race (the old name of F2). “The luck finally turned in our favour, but I had an incredible feeling in the car, it was perfect, so a big thanks to the whole team,” the Belgian winner added.

Beaten but overall happy with his day, Vergne summed up the situation well: “It was a good race for us, but we were unlucky with the Attack Mode, we clearly wasted it with the Full Course Yellow. I would have liked to fight for the win today but I will be satisfied with these good points. We have to keep working and I am looking forward to continuing this season”. It will be in Berlin, May 14 and 15, for the 7th and 8th rounds of this wonderful Season 8.

The qualifying session for the 5th Monaco E-Prix that took place late Saturday morning, has been as exciting as expected, with most of the best drivers qualifying in the Top 8.  This was as competitive as the final rounds at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. 

In Group A, Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes EQ), Pascal Wehrlein (Porsche), Jean-Eric Vergne (DS Techeetah) and Lucas di Grassi (Venturi) passed the test with flying colours. Meanwhile Seb Buemi (Nissan), who hit the tunnel exit chicane, and Edoardo Mortara (Venturi), the local hero, were eliminated.

A few minutes later in Group B, Mitch Evans (Jaguar), Nyck de Vries (Mercedes-EQ), Andre Lotterer (Porsche) and Robin Frijns (Envision) earned their place in the Top 8, but there was some damage. Antonio Félix Da Costa (DS Techeetah) and Jake Dennis (Andretti), who hit the barrier at Sainte Dévote, were eliminated, as was Oliver Rowland (Mahindra). Enough to ensure sensational quarter-finals between most of the candidates for the world title, even though we are only in the 6th round of this fierce Season 8.

Vandoorne first beat Frijns, the only driver with Lotterer to have qualified for all phases of duels since the start of the season, then Wehrlein beat Lotterer after an internal fight between both Porsche drivers. The biggest clash of these quarter-finals pitted JEV, the one and only double Formula E champion, against de Vries, the reigning World Champion. The championship leader narrowly won, with his sights set on a semi-final against Evans, who beat di Grassi, another former Formula E champion.

The relative surprise came from the semi-finals, because Wehrlein, the winner in Mexico for Porsche, beat Vandoorne in his Mercedes, then Evans, author of a sumptuous double blow in Rome (2 wins), beat Vergne, who will therefore start on the second row at 3pm. He is aiming for the podium at the minimum, if the circumstances of the race turn in his favour.

All was left to play in the grand finale, over a single lap of 3.3 km, with fully charged batteries, and the fans were not disappointed by this top-of-the-range aperitif: pole was snatched by Evans, the New Zealander from Jaguar, with the added bonus of a new track record in Formula E (1:29.839) and the first driver to complete the lap in less than 1:30 in a fully electric single-seater.

This is the first pole position for the Kiwi driver since Santiago de Chile, in January 2020, and as you may all know, pole position is always a good thing in Monaco: since the very first edition in 2015, the winner of each and every Monaco E-Prix has started from pole position. The show will start at 3pm!

The Portuguese DS-Techeetah driver, winner of the Monaco E-Prix last year, had warmed up quietly by setting the 4th fastest time in Free Practice 1, at daybreak, which was dominated by Nyck de Vries (Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team). Once wide awake, da Costa was the fastest in the second session, ahead of Mitch Evans (Jaguar) and Robin Frijns (Envision), two of the men in top form since the start of the season.

This session was meant to finalise set-ups before qualifying, but it was interrupted by a red flag for a few minutes. Two pilots saw their FP2 session end prematurely in the “S de la Piscine”. Oliver Askew (Avalanche Andretti) was the first to stop, then a few minutes later Alexander Sims (Mahindra Racing), with his steering broken after a contact against the safety barriers .

The immobilisation of the Briton’s single-seater, at La Rascasse, forced the race direction to interrupt the session. Other drivers also flirted with the limit, but without any damage, such as Dan Ticktum, Antonio Giovinazzi or Jean-Eric Vergne. The Frenchman and Championship leader finished 4th, more than 3 tenths behind teammate da Costa, who is now the new Formula E Monaco track record holder (1:30.435).

The Portuguese could start the qualifying session with maximum confidence, scheduled for 10:45 am.

The reigning Formula E World Champion was quickest in the first of the two free practice sessions scheduled for Saturday morning. The Mercedes-EQ driver came very close to the current track record in FE (1:31.118), posted last year by Mitch Evans in FP2, and kept Nick Cassidy (Envision) and Edoardo Mortara (Venturi) behind him.

1:31.154, this is the first best time of this Formula E Saturday in the Principality. De Vries set his fastest lap at the very end of the session, just after Cassidy had beaten Mortara’s best time. The reigning world champion – and Monegasque resident – thus put his name at the top of the time sheets, completing the 3,337km of the mythical track one tenth faster than the Envision driver.

Mercedes-EQ, starting its last Monaco E-Prix outing, will quit the discipline at the end of this season, but arrived in the Principality as leader of the FE Constructors’ World Championship. Belgian ace Stoffel Vandoorne could only post the 12th fastest time of this early bird session.

Antonio Felix da Costa, victorious last year before diving in the swimming pool, in his racing gear, was the best of the former winners of the event, putting his DS in 4th position, almost half a second behind Nyck de Vries (+0.499). His teammate, Jean-Eric Vergne, the winner in 2019, had to settle for 8th position while Sébastien Buemi (Nissan), a double winner in 2015 and 2017, made the most of his car’s ability to complete the 30-minute warm-up in 5th place.

The next session was due to start at 9:10 am, before the start of qualifications scheduled for 10:45 am.

A new qualifying format has been introduced this season, so it is about time to make a first assessment. One thing is certain, the new format is less chaotic and Robin Frijns took full advantage of it, until now: “I have always managed to get into the duel phase, and I hope it will be the same here in Monaco. With this new format, if you have a good car and you feel good in it, you always have a chance of finishing in the Top 8 in qualifying”, insists the Dutch Envision Team driver, who started this season well and often climbed on on the podium, even if victory still eludes him.

Until last year, with the different groups that followed one another on the track, “it was rather unsporty, it was a bit like gambling. If you were in Group 1, you were cleaning the track for the others. I am happy again to come to the races because I feel that if I make a good job, I will have a good result, it rewards the best team doing the best job, there is no excuse if you are not in the Top 4. You just need to work harder. It should be the case in any sport, without giving the pole position to a driver because he is far away in the championship and lucky to be at the right place at the right moment”.

As everything is relative, the opinion of Seb Buemi, a double winner in Monaco in FE (2015, 2017), is interesting: “The new qualifying format, when you are competitive, it’s good, because you really have an opportunity to go to the top eight. But when you’re a little on the inside, like us, it’s worse, because you can’t create a gap by being in the fastest group, because the track has improved”.

The new qualifying format, which is fairer on the whole, is therefore a guarantee that the best will be at the top of the starting grid more often, and that they will have less need to engage in extraordinary comebacks with the risk of causing collisions, accidents. But as JEV also points out this year, “the level of competition is extremely high, and the gaps are very small, because we are in the fourth year of Gen2 and each driver, each team, understands his car very well. He So you have to look for the small detail that can make a difference, the little thing that could have been done better in the previous race”.

This makes the FE all the more interesting, Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes) adds, as the field is exclusively made up of “drivers who mostly have a big track record, a lot of experience in different categories, and are all supported by big manufacturers”. So the Belgian driver does not want to look elsewhere, even if Mercedes will stop its official commitment, with a full works team, at the end of this season. In the meantime, for this last outing of Mercedes EQS in Monaco, Vandoorne hopes to do better than last year, when precisely the qualifying format penalized the Mercedes drivers. To be continued, on Saturday.

Unveiled to the world Thursday night at Monaco Yacht Club, the future single-seater of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, baptized Gen3, is already very much appreciated, except by a few drivers for its futuristic design. But as Jean-Eric Vergne says, even if “all the drivers  find the Gen2 quite beautiful, it is more important that we give our opinion on the technical aspects than on the design, whether we like it or not. For the look of cars, it is better to ask the fans.” With regards to Gen3 cars, “it’s going to be really nice, because the cars will be lighter, more powerful, faster“, JEV insists. “It’s a bigger step than between Gen1 and Gen2, in my opinion, and they’re also going to be more efficient, in terms of energy recovery, so it goes in the direction of today’s world.” About Monaco,  “And it will be interesting to drive, especially in Monaco. But on a circuit like Rome, it may become scary if we have 350 kW instead of 220 kW. And we also want it to be a pleasure to watch for the fans“.

The two-time FE champion is joined in his comments by Robin Frijns, the Envision driver, for whom “what the Gen3 is going to produce in terms of power will be good for the racing”. As for the futuristic look of the Gen3, “it’s not my taste” admits the Dutchman, “but what really matters is that it is lighter, more powerful and faster. I’ve heard that it is interesting to drive, especially with the new tyres, and I’m really looking forward to test it on track.”

The first on-track testing sessions by the teams are planned “within the next two months”, reveals James Barclay, Jaguar Racing’s Team Principal. According to him, it is “a new chapter which opens, and an exciting challenge, in connection also with our future production cars“. Barclay also points out that the size of the car, “narrower, more compact“, will be “good for the drivers” because it will encourage overtaking on certain tracks. The next phase is, in the coming weeks, the adaptation of the new power units of each manufacturer on the new common chassis, and then teams will need to continue developing the software, to exploit the Gen3 as well as possible“.

The last reaction of the day, in the press conference, came from Tommaso Volpe, the Formula E project manager at Nissan Motorsport. The Japanese giant is currently in the process of buying out French team e.dams. “The Gen3 will allow us to show our expertise in regenerating power, as we are going to achieve a 40% recuperation rate which is unique in motorsport. We will have to continue to find compromises as this is a very complex subject. And we are going to make sure that we improve the synergies between the racing team (e.dams) and our Nissan Motorsport engineers who work on various technologies. We are a bit far from the top teams, at the moment, but we hope to move up one or two places in the championship,” Volpe concludes.