The 2022 Monaco Grand Prix will take place over three days, like all the other races on the calendar, and no longer over four, as was traditionally the case in the Principality, announced the president of Formula 1. "Monaco will take place in three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, instead of Thursday, with a break on Friday and then Saturday and Sunday ", Stefano Domenicali told CNN. The Monaco GP, a historic F1 event, has so far had the particularity of starting a day earlier, with free practice organized on Thursdays and not Fridays as on the other circuits. Historically, the Monaco GP, present since the first year of the F1 World Championship in 1950, was organized during the Ascension weekend. Since Thursday is a public holiday, this day was chosen to run the cars, before the stop on Friday,with qualifying on Saturday and the race on Sunday.
F1: GP Monaco changes format, three days from Friday to Sunday
2021-09-22T23:48:52.959Z
From next year no more free practice until Thursday (ANSA) The 2022 Monaco Grand Prix will take place over three days, like all the other races on the calendar, and no longer over four, as was traditionally the case in the Principality, announced the president of Formula 1. "Monaco will take place in three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, instead of Thursday, with a break on Friday and then Saturday and Sunday ", Stefano Domenicali told CNN. The Monaco