What is the Monaco Grand Prix?
The others can argue, but no other Formula One motor race can come close to Monaco’s annual event in which the streets of the world’s second smallest country are given over to the likes of Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Toyota’s finest speed machines. Monaco is already the most densely-populated country in the world (and has the shortest coastline in the world if you’re really being a statistics geek), but on the Sunday of the Grand Prix it becomes even more crammed. For the racing purist, this is the biggie, as the Monaco circuit is notoriously tricky for the drivers. The experience for those in the cockpit was once described as like “riding a bike round your living room”. It’s also much-loved because it’s not a soulless, specially designed circuit like some on the F1 calendar – it goes through the same streets that the normal traffic goes through, albeit not quite adhering to lane etiquette and pedestrian crossings quite as strictly. But it’s not all for the aficionados. The Grand Pr
