A lacklustre Monaco Grand Prix once again raised questions about the prestigious race’s place on the F1 calendar and ❀hᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚas led to calls for changes to be made.

For the first time in F1 history, the top 10 finished as they started in Sunday’s grand prix around the world-famous streets of the principality. Following first-lap chaos that saw 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez and the Haas pair of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg wiped out in a huge pile-up, and the Alpine duo com🦩e to blows, the race turned into a snoozefest.

A red flag for the incident meant all the drivers could change their tyres and for most of the field,🌸 there was no longer a need to make a pit stop. That took away an element of jeopardy and resulted in drivers managing their pace and driving at an incredibly slow pace at times to preserve their tyres.

It is widely accepted that race day in Monaco usually becomes a processional event, with Saturday’s qualifying always the standout highlight of F1’s ‘jewel in the crown’ꦺ. But the particularly dull nature of this year’s grand prix prompted questions about whether changes need to be made to improve racing on Monte Carlo’s tight and twisty streets.

'I should have brought my pillow'

“F**k me this is boring. I should have brought my pillow,” was the far from ringing endorsement from world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, who was stuck in sixth place for 77 laps. An𒈔d the Red Bull driver was not the only one complaining.

After spending the entire race staring at the gearbox of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda’s RB, a frustrated 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon said: “It’s annoying because he had pace. He has too much pace – he was just telling us. I was like, we can all manage. I’m 🔯happy to manage, but we don’t need to manage this much.

“It’s actually hard to stay focused when you’re going that slowly because you’re just not even near anything. You’re not near any limits.🔴 I mean, he abꦿsolutely cleared off at the end of the race. And I was like, you could have done this the whole time, but he decided not to do it.”

Is a layout tweak needed? 

Aston Martin’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll c𓆏alled for changes to be made to the circu🙈it’s layout.

“Monaco is just – they really need to do something with the track,” the Canadian saꦑid. “These races here are just horrendous.”

But could such changes be made? One idea that has been suggested is for tꦗhe cars to turn left - instead of right - at Portier and rejoin the road leading to the tunnel further east, which would make the run to the braking zone for the Nouvelle Chicane longer and potentially increase overtaking opportunities.

“Monaco keep reclaiming land, so I think it's something we collectively and Formula 1 should look at because it's such a great place,” said Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, who added that F1 cars getting bigger and wi🥃der since 2017 has onl🔯y exacerbated the issues of racing at Monaco.

“There's so much history here but everything evolves. I think the cars are so big now. If you compare them to cars of 10 years ago, they're almost twice the size, so it's something that we need t꧑o collectively – as a sport with the promoter – look at: how do we just introduce an overtaking opportunity?”

Meanwhile, Mercedes counterpart Toto Wolff said: "I think Monaco as an event i༒s spectacular but the racing has been a bit boring foℱrever, whether the cars were small or big.

"I've said it before, maybe there's something on the layout we can do. But it needs the rain or massive strategy offsets♓. We want to come here still. E💝verything around it makes it so special.”

Special tyres and more pit stops

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton proposed another idea, suggesting that F1 should introduce sp𓂃ecial tyres and additional pit stops just for Monaco.

"I would say maybe having special tyres for this r🔯ace, so you have more pit stops, would create more variability. Whether or not we have Sprint weekends, they can definitely come out with a specific weekend,” ꦺthe seven-time world champion said.

"This particular weekend, I think they should come up with some new formula for it rather than just do the same. That's just my opinion🤡.”

Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell said: “I think if we only brought soft tyres, a soft tyre wouldn't last the whole race and you may even need to do ♎two stops. Somebody might try a one-s꧙top. I think just having the whole weekend on softs would solve a lot of problems.”

Monaco’s current deal with F1 runs out after next year’s event, and its future is likely to face further debate afꦛter this season’s rather tedious grand prix.