Monaco should remain on the calendar
Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Wednesday April 13, 2022 at 3:51 p.m.
While rumors have multiplied about a withdrawal of the Monaco Grand Prix from the 2023 F1 calendar, the boss of the Automobile Club de Monaco wanted to deny them.
Like the Grand Prix of France, is that of Monaco threatened? While the arrival next year of a third American Grand Prix, in Las Vegas, could eliminate a race from the calendar, the one which will take place in the Principality will indeed take place in 2023, assured Michel Boeri, president of the Automobile Club of Monaco. “I want to talk about what has been written in the press. People have talked about supposed difficulties after this year to organize Grands Prix, with Liberty Media’s prize demands being too high for Monaco and that our Grand Prix was going disappear, first explained the leader during the general meeting of the ACM. We are still in talks with them and now we have to materialize by signing a contract. I don’t know if the contract will last three or five years, but these are just details.”
24 classes in 2023?
If Monaco was part, according to rumor, of the threatened Grands Prix, it is in particular because the Monegasque circuit does not favor overtaking, and therefore the spectacle that F1 decision-makers want to see increase. But it should therefore remain on the calendar next season, a 2023 exercise which could have 24 lessons against 23 this year, which is already a record. There are more doubts for the French Grand Prix, whose contract is coming to an end. And while the extension of this contract is still not recorded, Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon defended the French Grand Prix in Melbourne last weekend.