Monaco
Grand Prix History
EXPERIENCE an amazing event by attending the 7th edition of the Historic Monaco Grand Prix, which will take place on the week end of May 2010 (only 15 days before the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix)
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The
first Monaco Grand Prix was held in April 14, 1929 at 13.30 under the
High Patronage of His Serene Highness, Prince Louis II.
The race released 16 competitors to curry out 100 laps of the 318 km
long circuit. It's Williams, official representative of Molsheim, in
his green Bugatti 35 B who won this first Grand Prix at an average speed
of 80.104 kilometres per hour.
The
appearance of the Monaco Grand Prix on international calendars is the
undeniable result of a determined sports policy of the Grand Prix's
President Anthony Noghes. It ail goes back to the mid-twenties, when
Antony Noghes and his friends set up the Automobile Club de Monaco,
an association which stemmed from the Sport Automobile et Velocipedique,
which itself already goes back as far as the Sport Velocipedique Monegasque
founded in 1890.
In
order to expand and be recognised internationally by the A.I.A.C.R.
(Association Internationale des Automobiles Clubs Reconnus), the predecessor
of the International Automobile Federation, which similarly retained
the real sports authority and rivalled the European record makers, an
automobile sports event had to be organised on its own territory. Anthony
Noghes proposed the creation of an Automobile Grand Prix which would
take place right in the streets of the Principality. He obtained the
official support of Prince Louis II and when he presented his plans
to Louis Chiron, the famous Monegasque racing driver, he too expressed
his enthusiasm. After some analysis, one realised that the topography
of the place was admirably well suited to setting up a natural race
track.
Since
the launch of the first race, the Principality has known only 14 years
without a Grand Prix, namely from 1939 to 1947 and then 1949, 1951,
1953 and 1954. From 1950 onwards the Monaco Grand Prix featured permanently
in the calendar of World Champion Racing Drivers, except in 1952 when
the organisers decided they preferred « Sports » cars to
the single-seater Formula 2 (2 litres) normally retained for the World
Championship.
The
circuit itself had not undergone any major changes, the length being
3.180 km up until 1950.
In 1952, some modifications to the Ste Devote bend led to the shortening
of the length of the track to 3.145 km.
In 1973, the layout underwent a change again. It was extended another
135 metres by the addition of a new track along the port, a track which
was to join the track of the new pool and which would end in a hairpin
bend around the restaurant « La Rascasse ». Grandstands
were reinstalled on the old quay.
As
the length of each lap was increased, the Grand Prix of Monaco was shortened
to 78 laps. In 1976, the addition of two more chicanes, one at Ste Devote,
the other coming round the Rascasse hairpin bend, extended the length
of each lap by 34 metres.
Ten
years later, for the 44th Grand Prix of Monaco, the widening of the
road at the beginning of the “Quai des Etats Unis” at the
foot of the Boulevard Louis II descent, allowed the creation of a new
chicane which brought the length of a lap to 3.328 km.
In
1997, the first « S » of the Swimming Pool has been drawn
again. Henceforth, ifs called bend « Louis Chiron ». The
total length of a lap is 3.367 km.
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