The F1 circus arrives in Monaco this weekend for essentially the most well-known race on the GP calendar. The narrow, twisty street circuit is sort of utterly unsuited to fashionable hyper-quick, high-downforce F1 automobiles, and doesn’t give a lot alternative for drivers to move. Nevertheless it does give them ample alternative to crash, as this video from the official F1 YouTube channel proves.

The clip is definitely a few years outdated, and was produced to rejoice the Monaco GP’s ninetieth birthday again in 2019. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless completely price a glance in the present day to see a bunch of multi-million greenback single-seaters climbing excessive of one another and snapping wheels off as they attempt to cram themselves by way of corners that would appear tight in a Renault supermini.

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There’s a shot from means again in 1950 when a wave crashed over the wall and triggered a mass pile-up, clips of automobiles doing somersaults as they attempt to take the precise hander main into the tunnel, Ayrton Senna ditching his automobile and strolling residence, and grumpy Lewis Hamilton purposely crashing his Mercedes into his third-place end signal at parc ferme after a pit-stop technique error by his crew value him a win. Even in the event you’re not a large F1 fan – and I depend myself in that group – it’s nonetheless an entertaining watch.

And if you need a clearer image of how Monaco appeared again within the Nineteen Sixties, check out this excerpt from Hollywood director John Frankenheimer’s 1966 film, Grand Prix. Actor James Garner, who’s most likely greatest recognized for taking part in gumshoe Jim Rockford within the Seventies TV sequence The Rockford Information, was, like his contemporary, Steve McQueen, a useful wheelman and did most of his personal driving. The high-quality footage is gorgeous, and reveals Monaco earlier than the massive tunnel was constructed and large superyachts dominated the harbour.