Red Bull F1 team 🦄principal Christian Horner believes the time has come 💮for Monaco to “investigate” track layout changes to 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 an eveℱnt 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 McLaren’s first win at the Prin🐼cipality since 2008.

Speaking to media including 🌱 after Sunday’s race, Horner urꦍged Monaco to consider tweaks for the future.

"✱I don’t think I saw a single overtake in🐽 the race,” Horner said.

“൲So trying to create a bit more braking area, either on the exit of the tunnel or Turn 1 if there was any way of creating a longer braking zone somewhere, we should really 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 has to move with the times ulti﷽mately.

“It’s an iconic and historic circuit but, you know, if you loꦿok at how Monaco has changed, how much land they’ve reclaimed into the sea into the 72 appearances here, I don’t think you’d need to do too much.

“There just needs to be one area where you can have an overtake, and everybody knows that coming here, the rꩵace 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 introducing smaꦍller and lighter cars as part of the regulation shake-up for 2026, which could help matters.

“Maybe go-kart🔜s,” Horner laughed in response when asked if F𒉰1 needs smaller cars.

“I think these cars are just too b🐷ig 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, b♔ut everything has to move with the times at one point.

“The marshals are fantastic here, they put on a gre🅺at event. It would just be really cool to have at least one area where 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 co꧂mpetitive change as a result of the ne𒉰w mandatory two-stop rule, Horner felt it was an improvement.

“I would say it was an improvement,” Horner said. “It was sౠtrategically more interesting, there was more jeopardy to it, certainly better🌳 than last year where there was just a procession.

“The fund♛amental problem is you cannot overtake here and you can drive around three-four seconds off 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, Horܫner added: “We rolled the dice a little bit today. Starting on the hard our tactic was always to go long, with the main opportunity behind Safety Cars or a red flag, which can sometimes be the case 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 a wobbl🍸e on his second lap out of hi﷽s 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 again yo🧸u’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 like he would get a significant benefꦛit 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 race 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.”