Overview

• Only two on-track passes were recorded over 78 laps, with the top four finishers mirroring their starting grid positions.
• Racing Bulls and Williams used deliberate slow driving to secure pit windows for teammates, prompting Mercedes’ Toto Wolff to suggest imposing maximum lap time regulations.
• Red Bull’s Christian Horner and other team principals urged circuit modifications, such as extended braking zones, to create genuine overtaking opportunities.
• Mercedes driver George Russell proposed replacing the race with two qualifying sessions that award points, aiming to make the weekend more competitive.
• The Automobile Club de Monaco defended the circuit’s layout as geographically constrained; F1’s 2026 rules for smaller, lighter cars are expected to aid overtaking.