Lewis Hamilton believes Formula 1 should introduce a different format for the Monaco Grand Prix because overtaking is too difficult around the street track.
“Bigger cars” which have become “much faster” over the years leave drivers with “almost zero opportunity to overtake in a race”, the seven-times world champion explained. “It’s been the case for some time and in my opinion, it needs to change.”Hamilton, who has won the race three times, says F1 needs to come up with a different format for the event.
“We’ve had the same format for years. It is the best venue. It is the most beautiful place that we get to to race at. But you already know that it’s never exciting for the fans.
“It’s a one-stop race with these hard, long stints that we get to do. On the list of difficult places to overtake it is off the scale, highly unlikely you’re ever going to get an opportunity to do so.
“I don’t think fans enjoy that. I don’t know what the solution is, but I’m hoping when we are looking forward to future generations, it can be a more exciting race for people.”
However Hamilton admitted the track remains as exciting to drive as ever.
“Practice, just driving the track, going through the tunnel, up into Casino, the whole experience for the weekend is mesmerising. And that never changes.
“The feeling of winning here is never any less. Every year is unique and special if you are lucky enough to get the opportunity.”
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After four fights with Max Verstappen over the opening races, Hamilton expects a processional race on Sunday.
“We’ve got a lot of tracks that we go to where you see racing. I think it’s been an exciting start to a season where you are seeing people overtaking and you see the whole field closed up.
But Fernando Alonso believes the races of today will be appreciated in much the same way people look favourably on events from the seventies and earlier years today.
“I don’t think we can compare cars and years, championships and driving styles,” he said. “I think those years were amazing to drive those cars from Monaco. I can only imagine how hard it was and how tricky it was at the same time.
“Now we have cars that they go 15 or 20 seconds faster than that time. So they’re still the same challenge and you maximise a package that you have in your hands. It doesn’t matter if you’re running in 1’30s or in 1’10s, at the end of the day is the same spirit into the driving and the same challenge to maximise that.
“So I respect a lot what the past in Formula 1 did achieve and how they were able to drive those cars. And now I think it will be the same respect in 20 or 30 years’ time when they see the races that we were doing now.”
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