The Monaco Grand Prix received an average rating of less than five out of ten this year – the lowest the race has been given since F1 Fanatic began Rate the Race in 2008.

A largely processional race saw Sebastian Vettel take victory after jumping ahead of team mate Kimi Raikkonen in the pits. The change of positions left many wondering whether Ferrari was already favouring the driver who is in the strongest position in the points standings.

Here’s what you had to say about the race.

The Monaco GP should be scrapped – it is boring and the cars are too big for the track. No one ever overtakes because it is simply impossible. The only time drivers change positions is when a pit stop takes place or someone goes out of the race. Boring. The only reason the race is held in Monaco is for the rich people. It’s more of a chance to show off how wealthy you are than the actual race.

Steve

Just about nothing happened in this race. Even the outcome of the pit stops was quite obvious except for the Bottas and Verstappen thing. I did not even see any tries with a reasonable chance of a take over.

Ronald (@Mosquito)

Excellent racing, exciting passing moves, wheel to wheel action, some flashy crashes and a last lap fight for the victory! I give this race a ten. Oh right, I was watching the Indianapolis 500… IndyCar showed this weekend that at least one oval race can be more interesting then the Monaco bore-fest that has no reason to keep existing.

Ed Pimentel

However the track has its defenders:

Yes, Monaco doesn’t generate overtaking (when has it ever), but it is a unique challenge – there is nowhere else like it.

Officer Honkengoose

I knew most people would call the race boring but I enjoyed it. Monaco has to be taken with a grain of salt. Watching the cars go round this track in itself is pretty awesome and we got lots of beautiful slow motion shots of the cars brushing the barriers on the limit. The pit stops were very exciting and resulted in quite a few position changes although It would have been nice to see some passing on the track. Loved the radio exchange with Button. You could tell he had no idea Alonso was going to call.

@BrawnGP

I love F1 because there’s variety. There’s a bit of old school and a bit of the new. Monaco is never going to be a track for lots of overtaking; and lots of overtaking is not all that F1 is about. Monaco Grand Prix is older than F1 itself, and deserves its place on the calendar, where drivers need to be inch perfect and the barriers define the edge of the track. I know this is rate the race, but to have the top three split by less than 0.05 seconds in qualifying is incredible; Vandoorne pushing too hard and stuffing it in the barriers in qualifying, that’s the commitment I want to see, because its the drivers making the difference over a lap, not just the machinery. And it was good to see drivers actually push all race in Monaco, something we haven’t seen in years like in 2013 when they were lapping five seconds a lap slower than they could have done. There was a sprinkling of overtaking attempts, some crashes, some strategy played out and this Monaco Grand Prix compared to the last few years was great.

Kevin Wong (@Fongu)

And as happens every year the unique Monaco television director earned a special mention:

It was mentioned in commentary that the TV footage is controlled by a local director and I don’t think they did that good a job, for example in qualifying there were a few times when they focused on a warm up lap rather than a fast lap. Also in my opinion for the TV viewers the area where Monaco can be the best is the on board footage, with how close they are to the barriers watching on board footage around Monaco is normally the highlight of the weekend but there was hardly any during the race.

@PJA

Earlier this year Lewis Hamilton suggested changing the race format for Monaco – a view Golding1X agrees with:

I’ve think they should do something different at Monaco, as well as the race have a time trial or something. They could make a team time trial even. One guy does a standing start and a lap, as they cross the line the teammate starts from the pit lane and does a lap. Fastest wins, constructors points only. It wouldn’t affect drivers’ championship and we get to see team mates actually be team mates

Golding1X

Do you think it’s time for the Monaco Grand Prix to be run to a different format? Or dropped entirely?

Or should it be left as it is? Have your say in the comments.

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The reaction on Twitter was, if anything, even more negative.

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