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‘Q1 is too much’ – Group qualifying mooted for F1’s Monaco GP
Sun 28, May, 2023
Source: The Race

A move to incorporate group qualifying for Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix has been floated as an idea this weekend – and has one high-profile supporter in Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.

The narrow street circuit, producing laptimes of just over 70 seconds, is an ideal breeding ground for traffic complications in sessions when the full F1 grid is chasing a laptime.

And the site of multiple cars crawling almost to a halt around La Rascasse has become a familiar one, and a concerning one, even if speed differentials with other cars on actual flying laps aren’t as dramatic as they would be somewhere like Monza.