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Circuit de Monaco is a 3.337 km (2.074 mi) street circuit laid out on the city streets of Monte Carlo and La Condamine around the harbour of the Principality of Monaco. It is commonly, and even officially, [ 1 ] referred to as " Monte Carlo " because it is largely inside the Monte Carlo neighbourhood of Monaco.
The Monaco Grand Prix (French: Grand Prix de Monaco) is a Formula One motor racing event held annually on the Circuit de Monaco, in late May or early June.Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world, [1] [2] [3] and is one of the races—along with the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans—that form the Triple ...
Subsequently, the circuit hosted an ePrix in 2022. The 2010 running of the event was the seventh in the series. It featured eight races total, in various historic motorcar categories: Race A - Pre-1947 Voiturettes and Grand Prix cars; Race B - Front-engined Grand Prix cars (1947–1960) Race C - Pre-1953 sports cars
1929 Monaco Grand Prix; Race details; Date: 14 April 1929: Official name: Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco: Location: Circuit de Monaco Monte Carlo: Course: Street circuit: Course length: 3.180 km (1.976 miles) Distance: 100 laps, 318.0 km (197.6 miles) Weather: Dry: Pole position; Driver
A significant entrant to Race D was multiple CART and IndyCar race winner Adrián Fernández, having acquired the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix winning BRM P153 of countryman Pedro Rodríguez with help from the organisers of the Mexico City Grand Prix. He qualified a strong sixth but would not make the start, owing to a broken differential shaft.
The 1931 Monaco Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at the Circuit de Monaco on 19 April 1931. With 16 Bugattis in a field of 23 cars, the event was close to being a single-make race. Among the 16 were four factory-team Type 51s driven by the Monegasque Louis Chiron , the Italian Achille Varzi and the French Albert Divo and Guy Bouriat.
The 1979 Monaco Grand Prix had featured a support race for historic cars, won by Martin Morris in ERA R11B. [3] Additional historic races had been held in support of the 1982 (winner Bruce Halford was in attendance at this event) and 1983 events under the suggestion of the Hon. Patrick Lindsay.
The 1933 Monaco Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at the Circuit de Monaco on 23 April 1933. [1]Goffredo Zehender became sixth in his 1933 Maserati 8CM s/n 3006. This was the first Grand Prix where grid positions were decided by practice time rather than the established method of balloting. [2]