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Monaco Grand Prix: Information, schedule, stream

The sixth round of this year’s Formula 1 season is already knocking on the door. The Monaco Grand Prix, the sixth of the twenty-two races on F1’s schedule this year, is scheduled for the weekend of 26-28 May. It also included the VC of Emilia Romagna, but that didn’t take place last week. So what’s the schedule and where can you follow the race weekend?

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1 year ago

23. 5. 2023

Tomáš Myšák

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The sixth round of this year’s Formula 1 season is already knocking on the door. The Monaco Grand Prix, the sixth of the twenty-two races on F1’s schedule this year, is scheduled for the weekend of 26-28 May. It also included the VC Emilia Romagna, but that didn’t take place last week. So what is the schedule and where can you follow the race weekend?

The Monaco race circuit is not only very famous across motorsport, but also an absolute icon. The first race was held here back in 1950, and so remembers the year the official World Championship began. If you’re interested, you can also read an article we published a year back.

Nelson Piquet once memorably described what it’s actually like to ride in the narrow streets of Monaco. “It’s like riding a bicycle in your living room,” Piquet once said, quoted by the official F1 website

Overtaking in Monaco has long been difficult, so the driver who takes pole position on Saturday is likely to win Sunday’s race. There was no overtaking in the 2003 Monaco Grand Prix!

Circuit de Monaco

The track itself is currently 3.337 km long and consists of nineteen corners. Circuit de Monaco, as the official name of the circuit goes, offers only one DRS zone with, of course, one detection point. This can be found on the finishing straight.

But in addition to the detection points, you can also see the average speeds that the drivers reach in each corner and which gear they usually shift into in that corner.

Monaco Grand Prix – programme

The Formula 1 cars will take to the track for the first time on Friday 26 May, at 13:30, as part of the first practice session (officially called Free Practice 1 – ed.). This will last the standard one hour.

FP2 will start on the same day at 17:00. The third and final free practice is scheduled for Saturday, May 27, from 12:30 to 13:30.

At the stroke of 6pm, drivers and teams will have to qualify for Sunday’s Grand Prix, which F1 has scheduled to start at 15:00.

Monaco Grand Prix – stream

Live coverage of the F1 race can be watched on Sport 1 and Sport 2, where you can switch between Czech and Slovak audio tracks. There is also F1 TV, where you can switch between the onboard cameras of the individual drivers.

But F1 TV also offers other features, such as livetiming and detailed telemetry. In addition to the full F1 programme, you can also watch press conferences or practice sessions and F2 or F3 qualifying.

Monaco Grand Prix – odds and predictions

The start of the season was clearly in Red Bull’s favour as its drivers scored a double in both of the first races. Verstappen won in Bahrain ahead of his teammate Pérez, with the order reversed in Saudi Arabia.

At the Melbourne circuit for the Australian Grand Prix, Red Bull finished first again, this time with Verstappen winning. Mexican Pérez started from the back of the grid after problems in qualifying and eventually finished fifth.

In Baku, Red Bull was again the main favourite to win, but Ferrari managed to get back into the game, especially in both qualifying sessions. Although they were unable to match the Austrian team’s race pace. Pérez took the victory in the VC of Azerbaijan, with Verstappen finishing second. So Red Bull recorded another double and will certainly be the favourite to win in Monaco.

But with the difference that this time it could be the city circuit specialist. Yes, that’s right, Mexico’s Pérez. But qualifying will be crucial in Monaco because it’s a very close race.

Other teams will want to take advantage of that, with Aston Martin and Ferrari on pole position outside of Red Bull. So if you’re going to put together a ticket and include the Monaco race, you’d better wait and see how Saturday’s qualifying actually turns out.