After the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique was canceled for 2020 due to Covid-19, it will return for the 12th time this weekend, starting on Friday (April 23rd) and ending on Sunday (April 25th).
This year’s event will have a Ferrari theme to celebrate the 70th anniversary of his first big win with Jose Froilan Gonzalez in 1951. Many of Scuderia’s largest F1 and sports cars grace streets where F1 action took place as early as 1929.
With a total of 96 cars on the track, the entire weekend is a real smorgasbord for fans of historic races and Grand Prix legends such as Jean Alesi and Rene Arnoux will also drive.
Read our guide to what cars are racing and how to see it below.
How to watch
The races will be broadcast live on the ACM YouTube channel.
You can follow the event through this link here, which will go live on Friday.
How do I buy tickets?
You can take part in the Historic Monaco GP if you are one of the Principality’s “Residents, Workers and Monégasque Hotel Customers” at the time of the event.
Tickets can be purchased from formel1monaco.com or by email [email protected].
Which cars are driving in the historic Monaco Grand Prix?
The event will feature seven different racing categories, from fire-breathing monsters from the pre-war era to F1 flyers from the 1980s.
A series pre-war cars / carts
A Maserati 6CM leads the field in an earlier pre-war race in Monaco
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Pre-war monsters roll it on the streets of the principality. This category includes a 1934 Alfa Romeo TIPO B (P3), a Bugatti 35B and a 1937 Maserati 4CM, which were driven by the Spanish Grand Prix race winner 2012, Pastor Maldonado.
B-series – front-engined F1 vehicles (1946-1960)
A Ferrari 246 Dino is driven in honor of the final victory for a front-engined F1 car that Phill Hill scored at Monza in 1960
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The Ferrari Dino 246F, driven to victory at Monza in 1960 by the only American F1 champion Phil Hill, was the last front-engined car to ever win a Grand Prix and is therefore belatedly held in a belated 60th anniversary celebration Race this year.
The Dino will face a field with a 1958 Lotus 16 and a pair of Maserati 250Fs – cars from the days of Fangio, Ascari, Moss and Hawthorn.
C-series front-engined sports car (1952-1957)
A 1953 Ferrari 250 MM is presented at the 1952 Monaco GP celebration
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In recognition of the 1952 Monaco GP, in which sports cars were used instead of F1 participants, the C-Series will be sold alongside a 1955 HWM Jaguar, a Jaguar C-Type, an Aston Martin DB3S, and a Lister Flat- den Ferrari 250 Mille Miglia included. Iron.
D-Series – 1500cc Formula 1 cars (1961-1965)
Lotus 24 is used in the Grand Prix cars of the early 1960s
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In the D-Series, nimble F1 cars from the early 1960s will race through the streets of Monaco. A pair of Lotus 24s as well as a Brabham BT2, a Lola MK4 and a Cooper T53 will be in use.
E-series – cars up to 3 liters (1966-1972)
Alex Caffi will drive a Ferrari 312, which is driven here by Jacky Ickx
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Ex-F1 driver Alex Caffi continues the Ferrari festivities and gets behind the wheel of one of the four Ferrari 312s on the starting grid of this series.
Also in the race are a 1970 McLaren M14A, a 1971 McLaren M19A and a 1971 Surtees TS9.
F-Series – Formula 1 Cars (1973-76)
McLaren M26 will be represented in the 73-76 class
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Jean Alesi and René Arnoux, both former Ferrari F1 winners, will drive a pair of Ferrari 312B3 as announced in 1973 by Jacky Ickx and Arturo Merzario.
The 17-car field will also include a 1973 McLaren M23, 1974 Tyrrell 007, 1975 Shadow DN5 and 1976 McLaren M26.
G-Series – Formula 1 Cars (1977-80)
A Hesketh 308 will return to the streets of Monaco this weekend
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A 1977 Hesketh 308E along with a Lotus 81 and Williams FW07B will headline the F1 category as 19 cars from the late ’70s and early’ 80s roar through Saint Devote and beyond.
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