The grand prix of all grand prix. It’s coming this week with all it pomp and history. Celebrities, models, politicians, and so on, but that’s not what makes the Monaco Grand Prix the Monaco Grand Prix, these are:

I’ve taken a look at some memorable Monaco Grand Prix over the years and put up 5 I remember (or saw on video because I’m not that old). I went back as far as 1950, one in the 80’s, a couple in the 90’s and one in 2006. There are so many great moments from the Monaco Grand Prix, but these are a few I like. If you have a great memory of any Monaco Grand Prix, let us know.

1950

The wave. All the excitement was on lap one. Farina took off first but as he approached Tabac Corner for the first time, mother nature sent the Mediterranean onto the track. Farina crashed out, but Manuel Fangio managed to get through. The next 8 cars all crashed out in a large puddle of water and fuel that spilled everywhere.

Of course I wasn’t even born yet, but have watched this race on video a few times.

1982

I remember watching this race and couldn’t believe my eyes. Late in the race a short but damaging rain caught everybody by surprise and the final 4 laps told the story here. 6 lead changes as no one could manage to get to the finish line first. . One of the strangest finishes, but one of the most exciting. Murray Walker called at least 3 drivers as sure winners in the last few laps.

1992 :

This was great racing toward the end. Senna in his McLaren and Mansell behind him in his faster Williams battled it out to the line. Mansell did just about everything you could imagine to get by Senna in the last few laps and it was the closest finish in Monaco Grand Prix history at 2 tenths of a second. This was great to watch.

1996 :

Only three cars finished this Grand Prix making it the smallest field ever to finish a grand prix in Formula One history.

Controversy started when Michael Schumacher had taken pole position and was acknowledging the crowd on his slow down lap. As he was coming out of the tunnel and driving slowly on the race line, Gerhard Berger was on a hot lap and Michael tried to get out of the way but impeded Berger who spun out to avoid smacking into the back of Schumacher.

2006 :

One of Michael Schumacher’s most memorable controversial moves was in this race when during qualifying he stopped his car on the track. Yes he went wide, but stopped short of the wall, had the car running and could have continued. He ended up being sent to the back of the grid for the race as his penalty.

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