5 best races at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix

Modified May 28, 2016 07:20 GMT

Olivier Panis monaco Gp 1996 — France’s Olivier Panis took his final F1 win here

1982 Monaco Grand Prix

Alain Prost Monaco Gp 1982 riccardo patrese — Riccardo Patrese won the race, held in the immediate aftermath of the death of Gilles Villeneuve

The 1982 Monaco GP saw only one of the classified podium finishers actually taking the chequered flag. This was also the first race following the death of Gilles Villeneuve at the Belgian Grand Prix; consequently Ferrari entered only one driver, Didier Pironi.

The race looked normal until Alain Prost and Riccardo Patrese had a one on one and Alain trying to push too hard lost the momentum in a crash with Armco Barriers in the wet race resulting in a DNF for both.

On lap 75 Patrese spun off at Loews ending the race for both of them. Last lap of the race became interesting when Didier Pironi and Andrea de Cesaris ran out of fuel and Patrese having his car restarted, took the chequered flag just when James Hunt commented:

"Well we've got this ridiculous situation where we're all sitting by the start-finish line waiting for a winner to come past and we don't seem to be getting one!"

Edited by Staff Editor