Monaco Grand Prix 2025 — was the spectacle worth the controversy?
I'll say what many won't: Monaco 2025 was a fantastic race — and the critics who wanted it dropped from the calendar should eat some humble pie. Yes, overtaking is near-impossible. Yes, the circuit is a relic. But what we saw this year was strategic chaos: three safety cars, a surprise midfield team winning, the rain arriving at lap 52 with everyone on slicks. The glamour is part of it. The yachts, the casino square, the impossibly narrow barriers — it is the antithesis of a Tilke circuit. Who watched it? What was your take — exciting sport or processional parade?
Brutal timing on that failure for Antonelli — leading comfortably and then it's just gone. First real reminder this season that reliability is still very much part of the equation even for the dominant car.
Leclerc needed that win badly given how the narrative around him had started to shift. A home-soil-adjacent European win at exactly the right moment for morale.