F1 Track Stats: facts and statistics about Monaco Circuit | 2021 Monaco GP. Facts and statistics about Circuit de Monaco.

The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One race and one of the most anticipated each year. Run since 1929, it attracts the world’s most prestigious drivers and most glamorous spectators to the tiny principality. Here are some fascinating facts to know about the event.

Shortest Grand Prix track
Just 3.340 kilometres long, the Monaco Grand Prix has the shortest track on the F1 calendar. However, it makes up for this in number of laps – its 78 are the most of any circuit.

Slowest corner
The Monaco Grand Prix circuit boasts the slowest corner in F1; turn six.

33 kilometres of safety rails
Safety first! Each year, a whopping 33 kilometres of safety rails are erected. This is on top of 3600 tyres for tyre barriers and 20,000 square metres of wire catch fencing. This is what happens when you have to turn a city into a full-fledged race circuit…

Mediterranean crashes
Quite surprisingly, only two cars have ever ended up in the Mediterranean from a Monaco Grand Prix. Alberto Ascari and Paul Hawkins were the two drivers who had their backs to the race track as they crashed into the sea.

Two months of setting up
The Monaco Grand Prix requires around six weeks to set up the track before the race and three weeks to remove it afterwards.

City track
The Monaco Grand Prix is unique in that each race has been held on the same circuit – the streets of the principality – for years. The only other similar circuit is the Italian Grand Prix at Autodromo Nazionale Monza.

Thursday practice day
Unlike other Grand Prix, the practice day for the race is held the Thursday before the event instead of Friday. This is so the streets can be open and functioning again on Friday.

Charles’ home Grand Prix
In 2018, Charles Leclerc, driving for Alfa Romeo, became the first Monegasque driver to compete in their home race since Olivier Beretta in 1994.

Official names

The Monaco Grand Prix has gone by several official names, including the following:

• 1950, 1956–1959, 1961, 1964–1965, 1973–1974: Grand Prix Automobile
• 1955: Grand Prix d’Europe Automobile
• 1960, 1962: Grand Prix^[
• 1963: Gd Prix d’Europe
• 1966–1968: Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco
• 1969–1971, 1975: Monaco
• 1972, 1976–1986, 2014–2015, 2018: Grand Prix Monaco
• 1987–2013, 2016–2017, 2019, 2021–present: Grand Prix de Monaco

Repeat winners (drivers)

Ayrton Senna won the race a record six times