I agree that this year's Monaco Grand Prix was a very exciting race. The rain is always a wildcard there and has precipitated (pun intended) some great races and extraordianry results (e.g. Jean Pierre Beltoise and the motley BRM crew in 1972).

Monaco is a special place and a special circuit. In many way it represents the final tenuous link with the old motor racing order and racing challenges such as the old Spa and the Nuburgring. Despite its' narrow confines it has a level of glamour and excitement absent from many of the other circuits on the F1 calendar. With their neat geometries, long run off areas and multiple chicanes many of these circuits seem better suited to go karting than F1.

The rain made the race far more exciting as driver errors (made more prevalent by the lack of driver aids perhaps?) caused more order shuffling than David Blaine could have achieved, and with more enthralling results.

That Mother Nature behaved as a drunken, renegade back-marker in spoiling drivers' lines and team plans was excellent for the viewer, but if this sort of exhilarating spectacle is wanted by the public on a more regular basis, perhaps the spectators should be given water guns with each grandstand ticket and a rain-making Shaman employed? Otherwise I fear this was an anomalous high-water mark in an overtaking drought.

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The rain made the race far more exciting as driver errors (made more prevalent by the lack of driver aids perhaps?) caused more order shuffling than David Blaine could have achieved, and with more enthralling results. That Mother Nature behaved as a drunken, renegade back-marker in spoiling drivers' lines and team plans was excellent for the viewer, but if this sort of exhilarating spectacle is wanted by the public on a more regular basis, perhaps the spectators should be given water guns with each grandstand ticket and a rain-making Shaman employed? Otherwise I fear this was an anomalous high-water mark in an overtaking drought.