Monaco Grand Prix support races

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The Formula One Monaco Grand Prix has had a support race in many of its editions, the longest running of which was the Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three, held each year from 1964 to 1997, and again in 2005. It replaced the Monaco Grand Prix Formula Junior. The Formula Three race was replaced by Formula 3000 for 1998, which would then become the GP2 Series and then the Formula 2.

The Coupe Prince Ranier was held once in the 1930s, and the Prix de Monte Carlo held twice in the 1950s.

The first support race for the Monaco Grand Prix was held in 1936 as a race for 1.5 litre voiturettes, and was won by Prince Bira in an ERA. The Coupe Prince Ranier was repeated the next year but for sports cars instead, won by Laury Schell in a Delahaye. With the Monaco Grand Prix not held in 1938 and the interruption of World War 2, the Coupe Prince Ranier was not held again.^[1][2]

After the first Monaco Grand Prix after the War in 1948, a motorcycle race was held, but this was never repeated. At the next Monaco Grand Prix, in 1950, was the first Prix de Monaco held for 500cc Formula Three cars, and was won by Stirling Moss. After another one-year hiatus the Monaco Grand Prix returned in 1952 now as a sports car race, with the Prix de Monte Carlo held for sports cars up to 2 litres. The Monaco Grand Prix was placed on hiatus again until 1955, but the Prix de Monte Carlo would not return.^[1][2]

The race became a permanent event first as a Formula Junior race in 1959. Formula Junior was replaced by Formula Two and Formula Three in 1964 and the support race was now held with Formula Three cars. A European Formula Three Championship was introduced in 1974 but the Monaco race was not part of it and instead attracted drivers from the various national and international F3 series held in Europe.

After the end of the European Championship it was one of the two unofficial European F3 races along with the Masters of Formula 3. The F3 race was cancelled after 1997. The F3 race was resurrected once again in 2005 as a part of the Formula Three Euroseries, but this championship never returned as it had mostly followed the DTM calendar.

Three drivers have won the Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race twice: Peter Arundell for Lotus in 1961 and 1962, Alain Ferté for Oreca in 1981 and 1982 and Gianantonio Pacchioni for Tatuus in 1993 and Prema Powerteam in 1995.

The most successful team in the event is Oreca, who have won the event six times: Alain Ferté in 1981 and 1982, Michel Ferté in 1983, Pierre-Henri Raphanel in 1985, Yannick Dalmas in 1986 and Laurent Aïello in 1990. The next most successful is Martini with four wins (1973, 1977, 1979 and 1980), while Lotus have three (1961, 1962 and 1971). Matra, Prema Powerteam and Bertram Schäfer Racing each have two wins.

Martini chassis won the event ten times between 1973 and 1986, the most of any manufacturer. Dallara have taken eight victories since 1988, while Lotus have four, Cooper have three, and Matra, Tecno, March, Ralt and Reynard all have two.

Formula Three was replaced by an International Formula 3000 race in 1998. This was held until 2004, with Formula 3000 replaced by the GP2 Series in 2005. The GP2 Series would itself become the FIA Formula 2 Championship in 2017, and Monaco has had a round every year, as of 2019.

Formula Renault has held rounds at the Monaco Grand Prix since 2003, first with the Formula Renault V6 Eurocup, which was replaced by the Formula Renault 3.5 Series from 2005–2015. More recently the more junior 2 litre Formula Renault series have held races at Monaco. In 2021 this was rebranded as the Formula Regional European Championship.

The GP3 Series made a one-off appearance in 2012.

The Porsche Supercup has supported all Monaco Grands Prix since its inception in 1993.

The FIA Formula 3 Championship made its debut in 2023, replacing the Formula Regional European Championship.^[3]

Year	Winner	Manufacturer	Class	Results
1936	B. Bira	ERA	Voiturette	Results
1937	Laury Schell	Delahaye	Sports Cars	Results

Year	Winner	Manufacturer	Class	Results
1948	Aldo Brini	Gilera	500cc	Results

Year	Winner	Manufacturer	Class	Results
1950	Stirling Moss	Cooper T11-JAP	Formula Three	Results
1951	Not held
1952	Robert Manzon	Gordini	Sports Cars up to 2 litres	Results

Note: A pink background denotes a Formula Junior race.

Year	Winner	Entrant	Car	Engine	Results
1959	Michael May	Michael May	Stanguellini	Fiat	Results
1960	Henry Taylor	Ken Tyrrell	Cooper T52	BMC	Results
1961	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	Lotus 20	Ford	Results
1962	Peter Arundell	Team Lotus	Lotus 22	Ford	Results
1963	Richard Attwood	Midland Racing Partnership	Lola Mk5A	Ford	Results
1964	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell	Cooper T72	BMC	Results
1965	Peter Revson	Ron Harris Racing Division	Lotus 35	Ford	Results
1966	Jean-Pierre Beltoise	Matra Sports	Matra MS5	Ford	Results
1967	Henri Pescarolo	Matra Sports	Matra MS6	Ford	Results
1968	Jean-Pierre Jaussaud	Ecurie Arnold	Tecno 68	Ford	Results
1969	Ronnie Peterson	Squadra Robardie	Tecno 69	Ford	Results
1970	Tony Trimmer	Race Cars International	Brabham BT28	Ford	Results
1971	David Walker	Gold Leaf Team Lotus	Lotus 69	Ford	Results
1972	Patrick Depailler	Societé des Automobiles Alpine	Alpine A364	Renault	Results
1973	Jacques Laffite	BP France	Martini MK12	Ford	Results
1974	Tom Pryce	Ippokampos Racing	March 743	Ford	Results
1975	Renzo Zorzi[a]	Scuderia Mirabella Mille Miglia	GRD 374	Lancia	Results
1976	Bruno Giacomelli	March Racing	March 763	Toyota	Results
1977	Didier Pironi	Ecurie Elf	Martini MK21	Toyota	Results
1978	Elio de Angelis	Racing Team Everest	Chevron B38	Toyota	Results
1979	Alain Prost	Ecurie Elf	Martini MK27	Renault	Results
1980	Mauro Baldi	Automobiles Martini	Martini MK31	Toyota	Results
1981	Alain Ferté	BP Racing	Martini MK34	Alfa Romeo	Results
1982	Alain Ferté	Total	Martini MK37	Alfa Romeo	Results
1983	Michel Ferté	Oreca	Martini MK39	Alfa Romeo	Results
1984	Ivan Capelli	Enzo Coloni Racing	Martini MK42	Alfa Romeo	Results
1985	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Oreca	Martini MK45	Alfa Romeo	Results
1986	Yannick Dalmas	Oreca	Martini MK49	Volkswagen	Results
1987	Didier Artzet	Monaco Sponsoring	Ralt RT31	Volkswagen	Results
1988	Enrico Bertaggia	Forti Corse	Dallara F388	Alfa Romeo	Results
1989	Antonio Tamburini	Prema Racing	Reynard 893	Alfa Romeo	Results
1990	Laurent Aïello	Oreca	Dallara F390	Volkswagen	Results
1991	Jörg Müller	Bongers Motorsport	Reynard 913	Volkswagen	Results
1992	Marco Werner	G+M Escom Motorsport	Ralt RT36	Opel	Results
1993	Gianantonio Pacchioni	Tatuus	Dallara F393	Fiat	Results
1994	Giancarlo Fisichella	RC Motorsport	Dallara F394	Opel	Results
1995	Gianantonio Pacchioni	Prema Powerteam	Dallara F395	Fiat	Results
1996	Marcel Tiemann	Opel Team BSR	Dallara F396	Opel	Results
1997	Nick Heidfeld	Opel Team BSR	Dallara F397	Opel	Results
1998 – 2004	Not held
2005	Lewis Hamilton[b]	ASM Formule 3	Dallara F305	Mercedes	Results

Year	Driver	Results
1998	Nick Heidfeld	Results
1999	Gonzalo Rodríguez	Results
2000	Bruno Junqueira	Results
2001	Mark Webber	Results
2002	Sébastien Bourdais	Results
2003	Nicolas Kiesa	Results
2004	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Results

Year	Driver
2003	Jaime Melo
2004	Neel Jani

Year	Driver
2005	Christian Montanari
2006	Pastor Maldonado
2007	Álvaro Parente
2008	Charles Pic
2009	Oliver Turvey
2010	Daniel Ricciardo
2011	Daniel Ricciardo
2012	Sam Bird
2013	Nico Müller
2014	Norman Nato
2015	Jazeman Jaafar

Year	Race	Driver	Results
2005		Adam Carroll	Results
2006		Lewis Hamilton	Results
2007		Pastor Maldonado	Results
2008	Feature	Bruno Senna	Results
	Sprint	Mike Conway
2009	Feature	Romain Grosjean	Results
	Sprint	Pastor Maldonado
2010	Feature	Sergio Pérez	Results
	Sprint	Jérôme d'Ambrosio
2011	Feature	Davide Valsecchi	Results
	Sprint	Charles Pic
2012	Feature	Johnny Cecotto Jr.	Results
	Sprint	Jolyon Palmer
2013	Feature	Sam Bird	Results
	Sprint	Stefano Coletti
2014	Feature	Jolyon Palmer	Results
	Sprint	Stéphane Richelmi
2015	Feature	Stoffel Vandoorne	Results
	Sprint	Richie Stanaway
2016	Feature	Artem Markelov	Results
	Sprint	Nobuharu Matsushita

Year	Race	Driver	Report
2012	Race 1	Aaro Vainio	Results
	Race 2	Marlon Stöckinger

Year	Race	Driver	Team	Report
2017	Feature	Oliver Rowland	DAMS	Report
	Sprint	Nyck de Vries	Rapax
2018	Feature	Artem Markelov	Russian Time	Report
	Sprint	Antonio Fuoco	Charouz Racing System
2019	Feature	Nyck de Vries	ART Grand Prix	Report
	Sprint	Anthoine Hubert	BWT Arden
2021	Sprint 1	Guanyu Zhou	UNI-Virtuosi Racing	Report
	Sprint 2	Dan Ticktum	Carlin
	Feature	Théo Pourchaire	ART Grand Prix
2022	Sprint	Dennis Hauger	Prema Racing	Report
	Feature	Felipe Drugovich	MP Motorsport
2023	Sprint	Ayumu Iwasa	DAMS	Report
	Feature	Frederik Vesti	Prema Racing
2024	Sprint	Taylor Barnard	AIX Racing	Report
	Feature	Zak O'Sullivan	ART Grand Prix

Year	Race	Driver	Team	Report
2023	Sprint	Pepe Martí	Campos Racing	Report
	Feature	Gabriele Mini	Hitech Pulse-Eight
2024	Sprint	Nikola Tsolov	ART Grand Prix	Report
	Feature	Gabriele Mini	Prema Racing