FIA once again got involved in the Monaco GP
After the mandatory two pit stops in 2025, the entity that oversees Formula 1 made new decisions with the race in the streets of the principality.
The Monaco GP is, perhaps, the best to experience live (because of everything that surrounds the event) and one of the most tedious to watch on television. The FIA and FOM want to avoid the soporific little train on the streets of the glamorous street and in 2025 they imposed a particular regulation for the Monegasque competition: three sets of tires had to be used, a situation that forced all drivers to have to stop twice in the pits. The result was not even close to what was expected: many teams tried to get their drivers together and one would act as a squire, going very slowly to slow down those behind, and give his teammate room for a stoppage without losing positions.
At the end of the year, the FIA announced that maintaining the mandatory two-stops in Monaco was being studied, but it was taken for granted that it would disappear. For this reason, it drew attention when the 2026 sporting regulations were published that there was once again the norm of pit stops for the Monegasque date. However, At the last meeting of the World Sports Council, which also approved the change in the measurement of the compression ratio from June 1, the exceptional mandatory double stop was erased.
Of course, an extraordinary change was added: Q3 will last one minute longer than on the other dates of the year, going from 12 to 13. As for the spectacle, FIA and FOM hope that the narrower cars than those used until 2025 will allow some chance of improvement.
