"Before the race, I thought the idea of two mandatory pitstops was great. But the way the race developed was a disaster for the sport."
Not my words but those of a fan moved to comment on my Facebook page – and their sentiments were representative of the majority, forming a scathing overall verdict on the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix. “Farce” and “catastrophic” ranked among the nouns and adjectives most frequently deployed. One post even read: "I've been watching Formula 1 for 29 years, but this was truly unbearable."
You may be wondering whose idea this was, but we’ll come back to that in a moment.
While the hardcore fan community was clearly in a state of agitation, it’s harder to divine what the casual viewer made of Sunday’s events. This is a demographic which doesn’t necessarily head straight to social media to exchange opinions before the podium Moet is uncorked, but rather switches TV channels and probably won’t think about Formula 1 again until whenever.
