[Official] Rate the Grand Prix: Monaco Grand Prix 2024

[Aysedasi]

Pretty much the only thing of note in the whole race other than the L1 shunt.

[S griffin]

And the antics of Stroll

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

You can quote just the final sentence if you want, just for dramatic effect, but it was meant in summary of my whole post.

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by VIVA GT

You can quote just the final sentence if you want, just for dramatic effect, but it was meant in summary of my whole post.

Fair comment. For me, I personally give the score for the race, not for qually. If I included both, my '1' would have been increased to maybe a '3'. Qually was entertaining, but then it usually is. But even the most enthralling qualification session I could possibly imagine (which this one wasn't - to me) wouldn't have made more much in the way of inroads for my rate the GP score.

[Born Racer]

I'm going to stick my neck out and confess that I found it rather fascinating. I gave it a 7.

On the one hand, I thought it ridiculous that deliberately driving slowly should be such a common tactic (we see this at other tracks, but rarely on such a visibly blatant scale), but here it added a curious dimension - as mentioned by others, would someone manage an overtake on someone driving slowly and opening up a big risk of a move? Or would someone get frustrated being trapped behind and 'send it'? What would it mean for the pit stop windows?

It's not my favourite way to go racing at all. But I've seen worse Monaco races, where there is little racing, but a higher average pace (and with cars much more spread out).

Then, you had some tension for the race won between Leclerc, a driver at home, and Piastri, who has never won a Grand Prix. And my 7 is despite the fact I didn't even have that, because although I didn't know it, I suspected Leclerc had won from some things I picked up from people around me (I just returned home and watched it last night).

And there were some overtakes!

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Born Racer

I'm going to stick my neck out and confess that I found it rather fascinating. I gave it a 7.

On the one hand, I thought it ridiculous that deliberately driving slowly should be such a common tactic (we see this at other tracks, but rarely on such a visibly blatant scale), but here it added a curious dimension - as mentioned by others, would someone manage an overtake on someone driving slowly and opening up a big risk of a move? Or would someone get frustrated being trapped behind and 'send it'? What would it mean for the pit stop windows?

It's not my favourite way to go racing at all. But I've seen worse Monaco races, where there is little racing, but a higher average pace (and with cars much more spread out).

Then, you had some tension for the race won between Leclerc, a driver at home, and Piastri, who has never won a Grand Prix. And my 7 is despite the fact I didn't even have that, because although I didn't know it, I suspected Leclerc had won from some things I picked up from people around me (I just returned home and watched it last night).

And there were some overtakes!

I confess that I really don't think I have..... Even if I search hard for fascination and tension, I just didn't find any at all.