"It’s not racing": Red Bull boss Christian Horner calls for changes to Monaco

Red Bull boss Christian Horner has called for changes to Monaco after another uneventful race. The race weekend in the principality has been prestigious since forever. There is, however, a growing disgruntlement over the track because it's very hard to bring any sort of action to the track.

Monaco has always been a narrow track, but now, with much bigger and wider cars, we're looking at a scenario where if the driver ahead can place his car in the middle of the road, there won't be enough space to overtake. This was evident on multiple occasions in the race this past week when Red Bull's Max Verstappen stopped for fresh tires and was lacking close to 3 seconds per lap quicker than George Russell.

However, when he got close to the Mercedes driver, there was no way past. The Red Bull would then eventually just follow Russell home without even mounting an attack on him. Talking to the media, including Sportskeeda, Christian Horner admitted changes needed to be made to the track. He said,

“I think it’s something that we should collectively have a look at. It’s not racing as such when you’re just driving around three or four seconds off the pace because the other car hasn’t got any chance of overtaking."

He added,

“Monaco is such a great place to come racing, but the cars are so big now that we just need to look at can we do something that introduces an overtaking area, or at least a potential of an overtake, because the top 10 is exactly as it started on the grid and not a single overtake in the top 10. Thank God for Lance Stroll, the only guy that managed to overtake in the race.”

The cars are twice as big as they were 10 years ago: Red Bull boss

The Red Bull boss pointed out one key thing when it came to the F1 cars these days, and it is the fact that these machines are now almost twice the size of what they were a decade ago. The huge cars on a narrow track are never a good combination and that's where the problem lies. He said,

"I think it’s something that collectively Formula One should look at because it’s such a great place, there’s so much history here. But everything evolves. I think the cars are so big now."

He added,

"If you compare them to cars of 10 years ago, they’re almost twice the size. It’s something that we need to collectively as a sport, with the promoter, look at how do we introduce an overtaking opportunity.”

Monaco has been notorious when it comes to wheel-to-wheel action. It would be interesting to see if F1 does bring a change because the race on Sunday was just not a good look.