I really disliked it. If we're racing all at the same time to a finish line, then overtakes HAVE to happen. Monaco as a traditional F1 GP is dead.

The pit shenanigans are not what I watch F1 for. It's like the pinch of salt on the steak, brings out flavour, but salt isn't meat and you can't replace one with the other.

Max staying out in #1 just waiting for that flag to come was ridiculous, IMO. Even worse trying to back up Norris into Leclerc. People will disagree, and defend that it's a valid strategy, and it is, but it's also goddamn embarrassment. I'm sure everyone was looking at Tsunoda like hawks to see if he'd pull a "Nelson Piquet". That's just the kind of bullshit that NASCAR would pull off, and there's a reason they're dying: race integrity is a goddam farce if you don't slap down all this nonsense.

We're here to see the best pilots in the world pushing blazing fast, state of the art cars, to their absolute limit and beyond.

Instead, what we got was a clown show of a parade, with people intentionally driving slowly to create room for pits and whatnot. How absolutely disgraceful.

Can Monaco be saved? Maybe. The quali was thrilling to watch, so maybe FIA can come up with some sort of special event, with Championship points on the line, but where you try to set a better lap than other racers, like with brackets and if you win you race against (but depart several seconds behind) another winner, and losers Vs losers, until you end up with the top 2 winners fighting it out. I dunno, just a thought.

Lots of shots of

Just one more pit stop bro! One more pit stop will fix it, I swear.

It sucked

"We are checking."

I’m convinced that there’s nothing that can redeem it. The only reason it’s still on the calendar is that the teams and FOM love going to Monaco (and all the oligarchs that are VIPs). It’s a terrible ~~race~~ parade and has been for many decades. They’ve tried so many things to spice it up and they’ve all failed miserably. Bottom line: it’s a week long party around the most boring F1 parade of the year.

The two pit stops “made it so unpredictable” according to people before the race, but how different was the finishing order from qualifying? It just made RB and Williams run 5-10 seconds off the pace for most of the parade. Epic fail.

My best idea to make it fun to watch is to put all the drivers in go karts. Don’t even bring F1 cars. They’re too big to facilitate any kind of overtaking. Instead of armco barriers, straw bales. But then it wouldn’t be F1 (just the drivers).

Make this the last Monaco race. I beg that every year. The only way to fix it is to take it off the calendar. Go back to Portugal, instead. That was a fun race to watch.

Smaller cars is the only thing that would fix Monaco.

Next year they should make overtakes mandatory. If you don't overtake 2 cars you get DSQ'ed /s.

Same here, but I must confess I can hardly call it a race. It's not that people can't overtake, is that they used this to just play around.

When I think of racing, the last thing I think about is people going intentionally slow all race long to do shenanigans because they can't be overtaken.

Compare that to this Mansell vs Senna Monaco 1992 final laps. Despite not being able to overtake with huge tyre advantage, they are racing.

According to Russell their plan was the same as Williams and RB, they were just beaten to it!

2 mandatory pit stops. He had to do his second one. If he hadn't he would've been DSQ'ed.

He held off hoping a red flag would come in order to get a free pitstop and the race lead.

Red Bull were hoping for a late red flag to be able to do the mandatory second tire change without any lapntime loss. Instead they had to pit at the penultimate lap in order to avoid disqualification.