Monaco Challenge

[Szisz]

From the terrifying historic layout to the modern Grand Prix circuit that can only be appreciated from on-board to the claustrophobic ePrix circuit, the street circuit in Monaco has gone through many incarnations in its time. However, the time has come for further tweaks, and you have been tasked with designing a new configuration for the street circuit.

What do you propose?

[S griffin]

Bring back the big white kerbs at the swimming pool

[Szisz]

If I were to remodel the Monaco Circuit, I'd add this appendage onto the south of the harbour. If you knock out a couple of bike racks where I've put the green line, you can make quite a wide straight and create a genuine overtaking opportunity into the left and sweeping right hander, before pulling into a second tunnel section. You'd also have to do something with the suspiciously structural pillar on the entrance to said tunnel.

Once you get out of the tunnel, you then zoom downhill, gathering quite extreme speed by Monaco standards before a sharp right-hander that is a bit wider than the rest of the track and actually has some decent run-off once you rip out a little traffic island that gets in the way.

It might diminish a little bit from the glamour of the track but it might give some genuine overtaking at a circuit which does lack it.

[sublimao]

Szisz's idea is excellent even if it causes problems with the teams trucks as
in Monaco the space is gold, but it is worth to inform the Auto Club.
Great idea and compliments !

[rubaru]

I'd like to put my changes on this board. My layout basically is an extension of the upper half of the circuit. There are no changes from Portier all the way to the run up to Massenet. Rather than the large sweeping Casino curve, we're going left a little earlier onto a tighter turn onto Princess Alice. After a short sprint up Avenue de la Costa, a quick right will take you through a nice S-curve and back to the original circuit. We'll stay here through Mirabeau and the famous Hairpin (we CANNOT get rid of that, right??), before a quick circle around the fountain and back to the original circuit through the Tunnel.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6768902

I also decided that the squeeze around La Rascasse might be too tight for the wider F1 cars coming in 2017 in terms of the pit lane entry. So, while I've kept all the pit lane and paddock in the same location, I'm relocating the pit entrance to the Tabac corner and exiting onto the main straight, after a slow hairpin to line back up with traffic. I figured exiting the pits before La Rascasse would be too risky with all the cars lined up so close to the apex of a hairpin, so I moved it up the road a hundred yards or so just for safety.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=6768906