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"It's incredibly intense out there and you have to be so focused. In qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix Saturday, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton took the pole position with an incredible record-setting lap time of 1 minute 10.166 seconds. "It would be great to see them go under 1:10 - the cars look amazingly fast," Sky F1's Anthony Davidson said. Before 2014, teams also used closer ratio gears, as there are hardly any long straights in Monaco and acceleration is at a premium. At the exit of the tunnel there was the traditional port chicane and, after the "Tabac" curve, the new path adjacent to the swimming pools (two "S" left-right and right-left connected by a short straight) and "La Rascasse" hairpin. However, these requests were not followed up.In 2015 the "Tabac" curve was re-profiled, slightly anticipating the entrance and thus shortening the track by three meters (from 3,340 to 3,337 today).Due to the tight and twisty nature of the circuit, it favours the skill of the drivers over the power of the cars. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.

When the Monaco Grand Prix is on, everyone watches.The streets of Monte-Carlo have hosted a grand prix since 1929, when William Grover-Williams won in a Bugatti. It should be noted, as can be seen from the period films, that in the second half of the 1950s the only existing lane after the Tabac was the one mentioned; in fact, in those years, the lane that we now call "promenade" with the two "Piscine" chicanes was not yet defined, and only in the 1960s images we can notice the progress of the landfilling about that portion of the bay, including the Piscine area which will be completed shortly thereafter.In 1963 the starting line was again moved to Boulevard Albert 1er (opposite the promenade), without changes to the track from the "Tabac" to the "Gasometer" (incidentally, the swimming pool and the waterfront lane that 10 years later will become part of the circuit, were already been created).In 1972 the boxes were moved near the chicane area of the port, therefore was created a "new" chicane that was closer to the "Tabac" curve. The boxes were reinstalled in the old lane (now free).

This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's,Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. The extra space also allowed for the installation of new grandstands and the expansion of the pit lane, which was also equipped with semi-permanent two-storey buildings (instead of the previous tiny prefabricated structures) to better accommodate the teams, the technicians and the material.Before the 2007 season, the internal curb of the "Grand Hotel" hairpin was significantly lowered and widened, in order to allow the single-seaters to climb on it and eventually face the curve with a narrower trajectory.Since the 2003 edition, the traffic divider at the "Sainte Dévote" curve has been removed in order to widen the track: the track design is now left to the curb only. 314.500 km. "I'm glad that was the fastest lap that anyone has ever done as it felt so quick.

"It was a good day for us," the F1 rookie said.