City: Monaco
Date: 28 May
Circuit length: 3.340km
Race distance: 78laps / 260.520km

Circuit de Monaco

This is a super-low-speed course on city streets surrounded by guardrails. The course is also extremely narrow, leaving little opportunity for overtaking, which makes initial grid position of absolute importance. As a result, qualifying witnesses the absolute in Formula One driver skill. Drivers faring well on this course have long been penned as "Monaco Masters", and out of the current drivers, five-time winner Michael Schumacher is the only one to receive this title. The Monaco Grand Prix is considered to be the most glamorous of Formula One competition and as such is certainly worth making the trip to see.

Access

Monaco Station is approximately 20 minutes by train from Nice. (Airport: NICE)

Climate

In early summer the Mediterranean sun is very strong, so sunburn protection is important.