Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner believes the time has come for Monaco to “investigওate” track layout changes t💮o spice up racing at the legendary venue.

Despite F1 introducing a mandatory two-stop strategy at this year’s Monaco Grand Prix to try and add excitement to ꦫan event which has long faced criticism, zero overtakes were completed during Sunday’s 78-lap race.

There was a close battle for the top three positions but168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris held off a frustrated 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc to claim Mc🐭Laren’s first win at the Principality since 2008.

Sp👍eaking to media including after Sunday’s race, Horner urged Monaco to consider tweaks for the future.

"I don’t th༺i🐲nk I saw a single overtake in the race,” Horner said.

“So trying to create a bit more braking area, either on the exit of the tunnel or Turn 1 if there was any way of ܫcreating a longer braking zone somewhere, we should realℱly investigate it.

“The cars are🍸 so big now❀ that you just don’t have a chance to get alongside.”

Asked if he thinks changes to the layout are realistic, Horner replied: “I think everything h♔as to move with the times ultimately.

“It’s an iconic and historic circuit but, you know, if you look at how Monaco has changed, how much la🍰nd they’ve reclaimed into the sea into the 72 appearances hᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚere, I don’t think you’d need to do too much.

“There just needs to be one area wher🤡e you can have an overtake, and everybody knows that coming here, the race was pretty much done yesterday. We’ve introduced another dynamic with the pit stop which ultimately for the top 10, other than the retirement, nobody really changed position.”

Current F1 cars are the biggest ever, but the sport is introducin🌸g꧒ smaller and lighter cars as part of the regulation shake-up for 2026, which could help matters.

“Mayb𝄹e go-karts,” Horner laughed in 𓆏response when asked if F1 needs smaller cars.

“I think these cars are just too big for this circuit, you can barely get them side by side, that’s Monaco. We know that, we all want to be here, we’re here because it is Monaco and the prestige and the cache that goes with that, but 𓆏e📖verything has to move with the times at one point.

“The marshals are fantastic here, they put on a great event. It would just be really cool to have at least one area w🍸here there was a chance of an overtake, as even in Formula 2 and the support races it’s very similar.”

Was the mandatory two-stop an improvement?

Despite there being no fundamental competitive change as a result of the new mandatory two🙈-🍒stop rule, Horner felt it was an improvement.

“I would say it was an improvement,” Horner said. “It was strategically more interestin🌠g, there was more jeopardy to it, certainly better than last year where there was just a procession.

“The fundamental problem is you ca🏅nnot overtake here and you can drive around three-four seconds o🦩ff the pace.”

Four-time world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen finished fourth after staying out in the hope of a Safety Car or red flag, while168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Yuki Tsunoda finished down in 17th. 

Explaining Red Bull’s split strategy, Horner added: “We rolled the dice a little bit today. Starting on the hard our tactic was always to go long, with the main opportun🦂ity behind Safety Cars or a red flag, which can sometimes be the cas🅰e here.

“So Max led a large portion of the race but was one of those Monaco’s where everyone pretty much behaved. So yeah, the first stop we got pretty close to Oscar [Piastri] at one point. He had a𒀰 wobble on his second lap out of his pit stop, but we would have been at best alongside, so we decided keep going.

“The upside would have been if there had been a Safety Car or red flag Max would have led, then again🍸 he had the medium tyre, went very long, stopped on the last lap, and agai😼n you’re just hanging out for a Safety Car or VSC and red flag.

“For Yuki we did the inverse and went lap one, initially looked li𒉰ke he would get a significant benefit from it but then everyone started to drive extremely slowly as they started to play around with the tactics.

"He was basically on the same set of tyres for the whole rac💞e🧔 and set his fastest lap at the end there when he finally got some clear traffic, he was just sat in a queue the whole race. Difficult for him today.”