Horner urges Monaco to make tweaks for more exiciting races

Red bull team boss Christian Horner has urged the Monaco Grand Prix organisers to make tweaks to the layout of the famous street track in order to improve the quality of racing for the future races.

The Monaco Grand Prix has been under the spotlight in recent years due to the fact that races have often been processional.

The issue has become more pronounced in the past seasons as several circuits that have been recently added to the F1 schedule have been designed to promote overtaking.

By contrast, the Monaco layout hardly offers any overtaking opportunity with only wet races having brough on-track excitement due to the tactical fights and different strategy approach of teams.

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner thinks that the Monaco Grand Prix needs to up its game if it wants to secure a long-term future on the F1 schedule.

'I think with the size of these cars and the weight of these cars, they're so big now, arguably they're too big to be racing around these streets because you can barely get two side-by-side. So that inevitably is going to cause issues.

"Now we race here because of the history, the heritage, and it's a phenomenal venue and there's a great deal of prestige in winning this race.

With cars set to maintain their dimensions when the new technical regulation kicks in in 2026, Horner indicated that possible tweaks to the layout could lead to more exciting races in Monaco.

'We should always be open to where can we improve. Now, we either need to make the cars considerably smaller going forward for ‘26, which isn't really on the cards, or to have a really entertaining in a race here then we ought to look at least the possibility of could we open up some areas that could potentially create at least an overtaking opportunity and what would it what would it envelop to achieve that?

'So I think that's something that Formula 1, I know, is acutely aware of, and I'm sure Monaco as well. But to protect the next 70 years here, I think that there needs to obviously be some evolution," said Horner.