Monaco - The Marmite Poll

[Galahad]

It seems to me to enable overtaking opportunities you need wide straight tracks. This in turn means less skill is required by the driver to 'keep it on the island' during normal running.

Monaco is tight and twisty and needs tremendous skill and concentration to negotiate safely - but you have few overtaking opportunities.

Catch 22 or what.

In theory, therefore, Valencia should be the perfect track - walls close in to the corners to punish any error, but relatively wide and with two or three long straights.

Unfortunately it is the opposite of the perfect track, so...I dunno.

Purely from a selfish point of view I'm really looking forward to Monaco, particularly if there's no overtaking! I might be able to follow the race for a change...

 

[Fenderman]

Just voted "of course" and suddenly realised my error. I want to see F1 in Monaco! Totally misunderstood the question.

 

[Slyboogy]

Rain in Monaco just to annoy Galahad!

 

[teabagyokel]

Fantastically, the poll has been reset! Now your chance to have a revote on Marmite Carlo!

 

[Brogan]

Marmite Carlo!

Henceforth I will refer to it as that!

 

[RevMaxPower]

Father doesn't like it but Ma might...

 

[Brogan]

Can we have an undecided option?

 

[teabagyokel]

Can we have an undecided option?

As you well know, I can't edit the poll!

 

[Fenderman]

Now I understand the question. I'll vote yes. But it's a bit of a mouthful ... let me try it "Fmontecarlo-one" or is it "Fmarmitecarlo-one"? Sounds like an Italian energy drink with a widget in the can.

 

[RevMaxPower]

Can we have an undecided option?

Sorry Mr B - can't make my mind up on that one...

 

[Brogan]

As you well know, I can't edit the poll!

Of course, not your section.

OK, I've added an undecided option and gone for that for the following reasons:
For the fans I find Monaco extremely boring and processional.
For the drivers though it's a test of ultimate skill.

So they each balance one another out.

 

[Fenderman]

Ah! Pro's and con's of Marmite Carlo! Here's mine:

For the fans - wicked noise. For the drivers - too much like hard work.

 

[teabagyokel]

I don't like Monaco, but I appreciate the skill involved. Maybe I've mellowed, but I think it probably does deserve a place on the circuit, if only to shake the drivers from their complacent slumber!

 

[RevMaxPower]

I for one am looking forward to watching Alonso modify the Armco.

I also hope Button will not respond to pressure to contrive a silly problem that removes him from the race...

 

[McZiderRed]

All old polls were a casualty of the conversion due to the double import, so the results are wrong.

Spesh or FB can create a new poll if required.

Thanks Bro, for putting my mind at rest. At least now I know that I'm not going mad, or have an evil twin previously unknown to me!

As the poll's been redone, I've voted for 'Yes, Monaco should stay in F1'. My reasons are as I stated in my previous post...

 

[KekeTheKing]

For sure Yes!

While completely ill-suited to modern motor racing, it is undoubtedly a supreme test of a drivers abilities. The reflexes necessary to complete a Grand Prix distance around the Principality are astounding.

 

[Fenderman]

... not to mention the physicality of the place. If there is one race on the F1 calendar that proves the rule that todays F1 drivers are true athletes it's Monaco.

 

[LifeW12]

its the most absurd track ever but the prestige and history of the whole event overrides all that. If they got rid of it its like removing the Indy 500 or Daytona

 

[RevMaxPower]

The race, like most things in the vicinity of Monaco, is a Gamble..

A Tip - don't put all your money on RED in the Casino...

 

[ramilas1]

Just like Marmite, I'd vote to keep it - but personally I see it as more of a spectacle than a race.

Often a damn fine, and exciting, spectacle - but only rarely a good race.