How F1 can tune its 2026 rules - and learn from another series' magic formula - to make Monaco shine
The age-old problem of making the Monaco Grand Prix great again, from a racing perspective, has returned to the spotlight in Formula 1. But could an answer be contained in its 2026 rules along with a little inspiration from Formula E?
Since the idea of racing motorised vehicles around the tightly compacted environs of Monaco was first coined and minted in 1929, there have been 82 editions of the Monaco Grand Prix. Presumably, that equates to 82 separate years of people moaning about dull and uninteresting races...
We'll keep the axe-grinding to the next couple of paragraphs and then we'll move on. Every year, someone complains that races at Monaco are "boring", that F1 should stop going there, and then we'll forget about it for another 12 months until the same complaints are charmed out of the ground like little earthworms once again. Ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
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