At a glance
- Length
- 3.337 km
- Turns
- 19
- Lap (pole)
- ≈ 1:12
- First held
- 1929
- Type
- Street circuit
The Circuit de Monaco is the slowest and tightest track in Formula 1, a 3.337 km lap stitched through the streets of Monte Carlo that has barely changed since 1929. Cars thread between Armco barriers with centimetres to spare, climb to Casino Square, drop through the tunnel and brush the harbour, all at speeds that would feel slow anywhere else on the calendar.
This map lays the full lap on the real streets and paints it by speed, so you can see at a glance where a Formula 1 car is flat out and where it is barely crawling. The Grand Hôtel Hairpin, taken at around 45 km/h, is the slowest corner in the entire sport.
Speed map
The ribbon is coloured from violet (slowest) through to red (fastest). On Monaco there is very little red: the only real breathing space is the short blast along the harbour front and the run through the tunnel, which is the fastest point on the lap. Everywhere else the track is a near-constant negotiation of slow corners.
Speed here is modeled from track curvature, not yet from real telemetry, so treat the exact numbers as indicative. The shape of the lap, where a car has to brake and where it can finally accelerate, is what the colours are telling you.
Corner by corner
Monaco has 19 numbered corners, several of them among the most famous in motorsport. Tap any marker on the map to see the modeled apex speed.
- T1Sainte DévoteTight right after the start-finish straight; first-lap flashpoint.
- T3MassenetBlind left climbing towards Casino Square.
- T4CasinoRight-hander over the crest by the casino.
- T6Grand Hôtel HairpinThe slowest corner in F1, ≈ 45 km/h. Full lock.
- T8PortierRight-hander onto the seafront and into the tunnel.
- T10-11Nouvelle ChicaneHard braking out of the tunnel; best passing chance.
- T12TabacQuick left along the harbour wall.
- T13-16Swimming PoolFast flick-flack of barriers by the pool.
- T18La RascasseSlow right around the restaurant.
- T19Anthony NoghèsFinal right back onto the straight.
Watch a lap
At 1x the replay runs to a realistic pole-lap pace of about 1 minute 12 seconds, the marker slowing into every hairpin and accelerating hard out of the tunnel. Use 3x or 8x to see the rhythm of the whole lap quickly.
Where overtakes happen
Monaco is notoriously hard to overtake on; many races feature almost no on-track passes. The realistic chances are into Sainte Dévote on the first lap and under braking for the Nouvelle Chicane out of the tunnel. The markers below are illustrative for v0, not real timing data.
Data & how to read it
Speed on this page is a curvature-derived proxy: the lap geometry is converted to local metres, the turn angle at each point is measured and smoothed, and that is mapped to a speed and colour. It captures where a car must slow and where it can run free, but it is not measured telemetry. When a real Formula 1 pole lap is mapped onto the circuit, it drops straight into this same view.