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Originally Posted by John Turner
Paul, I think I can answer the second question, from Alex Rollo's book, 'The Monaco Grand Prix'. There were significant changes made to the circuit for 1972 and one of them was to move the pits from behind the Gasworks area to beyond the chicane. This allowed more room for the mechanics to work and was altogether an improvement. However, it did not go down well with the paying spectators, and following the 1972 race, further redevelopment of the circuit saw the pits area occupying 'the old road from Tabac to the Gasworks Hairpin' for 1973.
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Thankyou very much John, I was very intrigued to see it on a racingcircuits.net map, and had never seen any images of a different pitlane. Thanks very much for that John.
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Originally Posted by Rob29
I believe it was on the calendar at some stage 3 years running-83-85? Political problems meant it never happened.I recall a TV in car film of the circuit which was in a park and included a hump back bridge.10yrs later CART scheduled a race around the World Trade Centrer,and this suffered the same problems.
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Many thanks to you also Rob, I was particularly puzzled in regards to hearing that it was on the calendar for mumorous years. A hump back bridge, wow that's pretty crazy - I think i've seen a map of the circuit, next to the tennis stadium?
PAUL