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MONACO HISTORICS GRAND PRIX
Roar of racing history on the streets of Monte-Carlo
The
Historic Vintage car races held every two years in the streets of Monte
Carlo one week before
the annual May running Grand Prix of Monaco
with the screaming
technical wonder of the modern Grand Prix circus, was a marvelous display
of 60 years of racing cars. Cars
from historic eras careen around the modern Monaco circuit. A Lotus
driven by Jim Clark, and
Maseratti
driven by Alberto Ascari, Niki Lauda’s
winning championship Ferrari, the three Tyrells of Jackie Stewart all
on the same track over two days of carbureted fumes from throaty pipes
of Cooper, March, Brabham, BRM, front engine and rear racing by the years
of competition. While the modern technical precision of the modern Formula
One car is an amazing thing, it is a testament to the love 
of
racing to see drivers throwing these mostly privately owned, sometimes
multi-million
dollar one-of-a-kind museum pieces around the
tight, narrow streets on the razor edge of control. Causing the admonition
for a safe race from
Grand Marshal, Formula One and and LeMans racing great
Jackie Ikxx, “The car is fast, the track is narrow, if you make
a mistake, you pay cash. Sometimes a lot of cash.”
Monaco Historics Dates 2008 May 8-11
The Grand Prix of Monaco is hugely popular and extremely crowded and expensive, but for the same atmosphere and a bit of nostalgia, attending the historics is a much more relaxed affair, allowing you to get toe close to these magnificent machines in the public paddock between races. You can actually find a hotel room in Monaco during the Historics at a price to fit a budget and can see the Riviera principality without the crowds and madness of the full Grand Prix the following week.
How Many Italians does it take to start a Ferrari?
The
highlight of the 2006 Monaco Historic Grand Prix race was to be the “Parade
of Ferraris”. The planned grand display of the Formula 1 Grand
Prix history of the famous Italian racing
marque
ran into a snag, literally - when one of the drivers ran into another
in the hairpin turn, the whole parade came to a screeching halt,
with the valuable cars driven in their competition days by the likes
of Michael Scumacher and Jean Alesi had to be hauled away on trucks. Watch
Ferrari Video. What will be the highlight of 2008? © Bargain
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Getting to Monaco? Fly into Cote a’Azur airport in Nice and rent a car or take the train. If staying in Nice (see THREE CHOICE HOTEL BARGAINS IN NICE), the train ride is about 15-20 minutes to Monte-Carlo with a one-way fare of about 6 euros. Passes can be purchased at SNCF kiosks in Nice Gare main station and stops along line for multiple trips.
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