Horner: Changes to circuit needed at Monaco

Red Bull squad main Christian Horner believes the lone mode to bring astir amended racing astatine Monaco is to alteration the layout of the circuit.

Formula 1 experimented with 2 mandatory pits stops astatine this year's moving of the long-standing event, but contempt immoderate strategical saltation during the contention it was mostly criticized by fans and drivers.

After Sunday's race, Horner said the halfway contented is that the choky circuit does not licence overtaking with modern cars and lone a alteration to the layout would hole the problem.

"I deliberation the lone mode to truly encouraging immoderate signifier of overtaking is trying to make a spot much of a braking area, either connected the exit of the passageway oregon crook 1 if determination was immoderate mode of creating a longer braking portion somewhere, we should truly analyse it," Horner said.

"The cars are truthful large present that you conscionable don't person a accidental to get alongside."

Although the circuit traces the aforesaid way astir the principality arsenic the archetypal Monaco Grand Prix successful 1929, determination person been 8 large variations successful the track's layout during the event's history.

Most of the changes person been made for information reasons and person often been facilitated by Monaco reclaiming onshore from the oversea astir the harbour conception of the circuit.

Horner believes further changes should beryllium investigated with the purpose of creating much overtaking opportunities.

"I deliberation everything has to determination with the times ultimately, it's an iconic and historical circuit but, you know, if you look astatine however Monaco has changed, however overmuch onshore they've reclaimed into the oversea into the 72 appearances here, I don't deliberation you'd request to bash excessively much," helium added.

"There conscionable needs to beryllium 1 country wherever you tin person an overtake, and everybody knows that coming here, the contention was beauteous overmuch done yesterday, and we've introduced different dynamic with the pit halt which yet for the apical 10 different than the status cipher truly changed position."

New regulations adjacent twelvemonth volition spot F1 cars go narrower and shorter, perchance helping drivers tally wheel-to-wheel astatine Monaco, but Horner doubts that alteration unsocial volition beryllium capable to marque a important difference.

"Maybe [if they were] go-karts!" helium joked. "I deliberation these cars are conscionable excessively large for this circuit, you tin hardly get them broadside by side, that's Monaco, we cognize that, we each privation to beryllium here, we're present due to the fact that it is Monaco and the prestige and the cache that goes with that, but everything has to determination with the times astatine 1 point.

"The marshals are fantastic here, they enactment connected a large event, it would conscionable beryllium truly chill to person astatine slightest 1 country wherever determination was a accidental of an overtake, arsenic adjacent successful Formula 2 and the enactment races it's precise similar."