Grand Prix Monaco Historique 2018 - F1 celebrities from then and now in the racing cars of yesteryear

Name: McLaren M26 1976
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Created on May 21, 2018

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Ferrari 312B (1971) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Mika Hakkinen completes demo laps in the McLaren - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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In memory of the Monegasque Louis Chiron - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Prince Albert in the Lamobrghini Marzal on the lap of honor - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Demo lap in the old Williams - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Demo laps - Derek Bell in the Porsche - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Demo laps - Jacky Ickx in the Porsche 936 - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Demo laps - Scheufele in the Porsche 550 RS Spyder - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Demo laps - Vanina Ickx takes the wheel of the Porsche Monoposto - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Mascot - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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The cars are getting older, the drivers younger - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Dressed in style - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Those were still tires - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

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Bugatti 37A (1927) - Series A - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Bugatti 35B (1929) - Series A - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Delage 1500 (1937) - Series A - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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ERA R1B (1935) - Series A - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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ERA R4A (1935) - Series A - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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ERA R5B (1936) - Series A - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Cooper-Bristol T23 Mk2 (1953) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Talbot-Lago T26C (1948) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Alta F2 (1952) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Connaught A (1952) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Connaught B (1955) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Lotus 16 (1958) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Lotus 16 (1959) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Maserati 250F (1954) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Maserati 250F (1957) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Tec-Mec F415 (1959) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Scarab F1 (1960) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Aston Martin DB3 (1952) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Cooper-Jaguar T38 Mk2 (1955) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Ferrari 225S (1952) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Frazer Nash Mille Miglia (1951) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Gordini T23S (1952) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Lister Flat Iron (1955) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Ferrari 212 Export (1951) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Maserati 300S (1955) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Ferrari 1512 (1964) - Series D - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Lotus 25 Climax (1962) - Series D - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Lotus 49 (1969) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Ferrar 312B (1970) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Lotus 49 (1967) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Brabham BT33 (1970) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Brabham BT37 (1972) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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McLaren M14A (1970) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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McLaren M19A (1971) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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March 711 (1971) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Tecno MS120C (1971) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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March 701 (1970) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Ferrari 312B3 (1972) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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BRM P153 (1970) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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March 721 (1972) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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McLaren M26 (1976) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Shadow DN5 (1975) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Ferrari 312B3 (1974) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Williams FW05 (1975) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Wolf WR4 (1976) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Ensign N176 (1976) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Williams FW04 (1975) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Tyrrell 010 (1980) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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ATS D4 (1980) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Fittipaldi F5A (1977) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Shadow DN8 (1977) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Fittipaldi F7 (1980) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Hesketh 308E (1977) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Ligier JS11/15 (1979) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Williams FW06 (1978) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Theodore TR1 (1978) - Series G - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

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Organized for the first time in 1997, the Grand Prix Monaco Historique was held for the eleventh time in 2018. Around 140 Formula 1 cars from 30 years after 1950 and a number of Grand Prix racers from before the Second World War, together with a group of sports cars from the 1950s, came to the Côte d'Azur for the historic races on May 11-13, 2018.

Maserati 250F (1957) - Series B - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

In the footsteps of the modern F1

The track had already been completely prepared for this year's Formula 1 race on the last weekend in May, and the onlooker spontaneously thought that the racing cars gathered here could not actually recognize the track on which they had raced during their time in service. The quadruple crash barriers, the meter-high safety fences almost everywhere on the 3.3 kilometers, only occasionally provided with "loopholes" for the photographers, hundreds of marshals and paramedics, recovery cranes and safety cars, all this did not exist at all in their time or, as from the 1970s, only to a limited extent.

Ensign N176 (1976) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

On May 13, a good half-dozen starting fields took to the uphill and downhill track in races lasting up to 18 laps below the Prince's Palace and Hotel de Paris.

Lots of F1 celebrities on site

Despite the Spanish Grand Prix taking place at the same time in Barcelona, tens of thousands of visitors and numerous Formula 1 celebrities were not deterred from preferring to see, smell and, above all, hear the old cars; most of the ex-drivers also took the opportunity to get behind the wheel themselves once again.

Demo lap in the old Williams - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

In a parade of F1 cars from the sixties to the eighties, John Watson, Emmanuele Pirro and Josh Hill, the grandson of Sir Graham, sat in Lotus cars, Mark Blundell, Eddie Irvine and Mika Häkkinen in McLaren and Thierry Boutsen, Karun Chandhok and Riccardo Patrese in Williams monoposti.

Beloved sideline

Pasta king Paolo Barilla, on the other hand, was looking for competition in a Ferrari 312B, was taken on the horns by a competitor in the braking zone for the Mirabeau curve and ended up in the run-off zone after an aerial maneuver. Four laps down, he was still classified 21st.

Lotus 49 (1969) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

Red Bull designer Adrian Newey avoided the potential stress with his two drivers by preferring to beat a Lotus 49B through the urban canyons. He finished 11th in his class and then quickly disappeared from the paddock because the start in Barcelona was imminent. Red Bull had probably set up a temporary command post for him somewhere near the paddock. Just in case...

Stand-one

Also seen: Former Porsche works drivers Derek Bell, still fit and handsome at the age of 76, and Willi Kauhsen, who, at the age of almost 80, used his still keen sense of hearing to locate an ignition problem in a Maserati 300S.

Demo laps - Jacky Ickx in the Porsche 936 - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2018

Porsche celebrated its 70th anniversary in Monaco with the presentation of two Formula 1 cars from 1962 and the 936 with which the Zuffenhausen-based company won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1981. At the wheel, of course, was the then winner and works driver Jacky Ickx, who drove the flounder over the narrow roads of the Principality just as confidently as he did over the endlessly long full-throttle passage Hunaudieres on the circuit at the Sarthe.

A number of local and German drivers mingled with the British drivers, who outnumbered them, to demonstrate their skills and the speed of their veterans.

Racing in changeable conditions

In the pre-war class, Michael Gans in an Era R1B came second behind the winner Charles McCabe (Ireland) and Antony Sinopoli in his Maserati 6CM/4CM came third.

ERA R5B (1936) - Series A - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

Dieter Roschmann (D) in a Maserati 300S took ninth place in the front-engined sports cars from the 1950s, his compatriot Wolfgang Friederichs in an Aston Martin DB 3S was eleventh, and Katharina Kyvalova (D) in her Cooper Jaguar T33 Mk1 in 14th place showed that the female sex can also handle the old iron without driving assistants. Stefan Hanselmann, also from Germany, finished 22nd in his Maserati A6 GCS.

Maserati 300S (1955) - Series C - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

Unfortunately, Peter had no mercy on the sports car drivers. Just in time for the start, he opened a cloud over Monaco and the first and heavy rain of the otherwise warm summer weekend poured down on the coast. This was also the reason for the retirement of the Maserati 300 S of the German Michael Willms, who is at home in Küssnacht.

Brabham BT37 (1972) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

In the Formula 1 races from 1966 to 1972, Swiss driver Phillipe Scemama took eleventh place in a Surtees TS 9B.

Ferrari 312B3 (1974) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

Marco Werner and Maximilian Werner (D) each drove a Ferrari 312 B3 - both ex-Lauda cars - and finished third and sixth in the 1973 to 1976 premier class race. The winner was Michael Lyons in the McLaren M26.

McLaren M26 (1976) - Series F - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

And among the fastest, the F1 cars of the years 1977 to 1980, Martin O'Connel finished at the top of the podium, which is actually surprising, as the piloted ATS D4 from 1980 was not exactly one of the most successful single-seaters at the time.

More tradition is hardly possible

The Grand Prix Monaco Historique, which only takes place every two years, is an absolute highlight among the veteran events held worldwide; this is of course due to the class of the vehicles on display, but also to the ambience.

Ferrari 312B (1971) - Series E - Grand Prix de Monaco Historique

Where else, for example, can you find dozens of yachts worth tens of millions right next to the track? Where else did racing cars drive through a city in 1929 at the first car race, sometimes even over streetcar tracks? Back then, the kerbs were the crash barriers. And when you changed gear, there was no computer to help you, you just stepped on the gas!