Cancelled last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s race on May 23 has sold already 4,000 tickets. AFP/File
MONACO: The Monaco Grand Prix, arguably the most iconic race on the Formula One calendar, will be held in late May with 7,500 spectators, the Principality’s government announced on Tuesday.
Spectators coming from outside the Principality will all be required to show evidence of a negative PCR test when they cross the border and in order to enter the enclosure of the street circuit.
“It is important that it is held with both a minimum participation of the public and the highest sanitary conditions,” said the Minister of State Pierre Dartout.
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A mean, green, classic-car-ready machine…
Now that the fanfare of Watches & Wonders has well and truly subsided, I think we can say comfortably that the big ‘theme’ of this year’s various and sundry presentations was green. Whether for its fiscal connotations or how it viscerally suggests the appeal of the great outdoors,
a lot of brands this year launched timepieces shaded in Kermit’s favourite colour from Piaget’s impossibly thin ‘Tribute to La Côte-aux-Fées’ to the lagoon-inspired Moser Mega Cool. Not one to go quietly into the proverbial woods, TAG Heuer released their own green machine earlier this week a limited edition Monaco that commemorates the 12th Grand Prix de Monaco Historique.
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Tag Heuer Green-Lights a New Monaco
Start your engines. The Swiss powerhouse has given its classic racer a new go-go-go look Tag Heuer
Tag Heuer has announced a green version of its celebrated Monaco watch. The colour, associated with vintage cars and motor racing, is apt.
It is being released to mark the brand’s position as official sponsor and timekeeper of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, the biennial motorsport event that takes place this weekend. Tag Heuer
Originally released in 1969, Tag Heuer’s Monaco is one of its most admired watches. Despite being named after the famous Grand Prix race in the French Riviera city-state, the brand hadn’t served as an official timing sponsor of the event until last year, when it took over from Rolex.
Formula E
For the fourth running of the E-Prix, Monaco will see Formula E cars race around the casino and through the tunnel for the first time.
The 2021 E-Prix circuit will nearly double the distance the Gen2 cars will have to cover each lap, going from the 1.76km shortened version to a 3.32km tour around the Principality.
The layout, while visiting all the locations the F1 track does, will not be identical to it. The first corner, Sainte Devote, will be set up as it was in the initial track design first run in 1929, while the chicane after the tunnel will also have a slightly different arrangement.