Formula 1 wants to raise annual race fee for Monaco to host Grand Prix - eviltoast

Liberty Media Corp., owner of the Formula 1 racing business, is seeking additional funds from the principality of Monaco as part of advanced talks for a new contract to extend the historic car race beyond 2025.

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    5 months ago

    Hope they disagree over money or some stupid greedy shit, because it’d be great to see the worst and most boring track be replaced by something else.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I like Monaco, but only because I treat the Saturday as the real race.

    Ideally I’d want the next set of regs to make the cars substantially smaller, though.

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      5 months ago

      The regulations aren’t final yet but it looks like the cars are going to be smaller. They might get heavier though because of the bigger batteries

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    5 months ago

    The Monaco GP should be in karts or something, as the current track and regulations combination doesn’t allow for a good race. You can’t deny the history of the track but it’s been boring for a while. Race usually ends in how they qualified.

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    5 months ago

    Monaco should be a novelty event away from the championship, like goodwood or something.

    Cling onto the history if you want, but recognise it doesn’t fit in the modern F1 era.