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Monaco Preview: Spin of the roulette wheel
May 21st, 2013 (F1plus/G. Keilloh).- What is it with Monaco? Really, there are so many reasons to dislike Grands Prix there. It is an anachronism: the modern F1 car outgrew the torturous course not so much years but decades ago (Nelson Piquet once likened driving there to riding a motorcycle in your front room) while overtaking is a near impossibility. It would for various reasons all be laughed out of town if proposed from scratch today. Clive James once noted dryly that 'it is said these days with increasing frequency that Monaco makes a nice change from Grand Prix racing'. Furthermore, the wealth on show is ostentatious, and the poseur occupants of the yachts in the harbour in all...
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