Horner: Monaco tracks only changes the way to encourage overtaking in F1

After another Monaco Grand Prix, there was very little variety between qualifying and race results McLaren‘S Lando Noris Winning over the position of the pole, the Red Bull Formula 1 boss is calling for a huge change in the Christian Hornner princely state.

For this year’s race, the F1 was brought to a new compulsory two-petstop rule, in which all drivers needed to use three sets of tires in two compounds during the race. The regulation was a reaction to the decision of 2024, in which most drivers were seen swaping tires in the event of red flags.

The new rule attracted mixed reactions from drivers, pundits, and fans of the series, and while the Red Bull Boss believes it is designed for a “more interesting” race, he believes that Monaco must be done more to fix GP.

“I would say it was an improvement,” Horner said after Monaco GP. “It was more strategically more interesting, there was more danger to it, of course better than what we saw last year, where there was only one procession.”

While the rule change has improved the 2025 repetition of the better race better than the previous year’s incident, it eventually failed to combine the results of the procession Grand Prix.

To do this, the Horner Formula is calling for more rigorous changes than 1, which is potentially involving replacing the layout of the Monaco track.

“I think this is really the only way to encourage any form of overtake,” said Red Bull Boss.

“I don’t think I have seen a single overtake in the race. So, trying to create a little more braking area, either when the tunnel exit or 1 turn 1. If there was a way to make more braking zone, we should actually check it.”

The Monaco Track Layout was first developed back in the 1920s and has been unchanged since the first F1 championship race on the Monte Carlo’s streets in 1950.

Over the years, the track has developed because the roads of Monaco have been replaced – the sequence of corners around the swimming pool section and the corners around the Rascase is slightly touched.

In contrast, the F1 is almost unfamiliar than the 1950s. The cars are now about half a meter wide compared to 75 years ago, and the wheelbase is one meter long. This is the growth of F1 cars, causing the current prediction on the streets of Monaco, not tracks.

Horner said, “Cars are so big now, you know, you don’t just have a chance to go with you.”

This simple fact also motivated former-respective Naomi Shif to joke on Sky’s F1 coverage later this week that drivers should swap their F1 machines for F3 cars when the Circus rolls in Monaco.

Now, F1 is at least trying to deal with its size problem. Next year, the new rules will widely dramatically replace the cars we see on the track.

Under the new rules, the wheelbase of F1 machinery will fall from 3,600 mm to 3,400 mm and the width of cars will fall from 2,000 mm to 100 mm in 2025. The weight of cars will also fall to four percent, but it is currently proving to be a glued point with teams.

Whether the new rules have to achieve their objective of making their objectives to be talked about, close racers are yet to be seen to deal with the calendar of F1, but the series will require more than a little skinier cars to spice action at its crown jewelery event.