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Hi, welcome back to the channel. Welcome back to Monaco and welcome to the weddings day before the Grand Prix weekend in Monaco. If you saw the previous video, I was standing in the same area here and it was like a lot of stuff going on, but the teams weren't here. But as you can see now, the teams are very much here. You can actually see some parts of cars sitting out here, some nose cones here. There's some engine cowlings. There's there's equipment everywhere. All the teams are here now. You can see people walking around in their team colors. Monaco looks absolutely chaotic right now. I wouldn't say it is chaos though. It's it's organized chaos. It looks chaotic to me, you know, to the layman because there's trucks
everywhere. There's traffic blocking trucks blocking the roads and stuff like that in here. It's very organized. Obviously, all of the teams prepping their cars. Anyway, we're going to look at more of the setup for the Grand Prix and also obviously we're going to go down to the marina. We're going to look at what boats are in, what boats have left, because some of the boats that I talked about in the last video have left now. And there's been a lot of movements since I was here on Saturday. So Monaco Grand Prix is often referred to as the crown jewel in Formula 1, which is really interesting because if you're a fan of Formula 1, you'll know that the race is kind of often
quite um a procession of cars. It's very difficult to overtake here. Obviously, Formula 1 cars have ballooned over the years and now they're so big now that they actually find it hard to overtake here. You know, back in the 50s, the cars were much thinner, much smaller, and they were able to overtake. If you come and watch the classic Grand Prix, you'll see a lot more overtaking usually than you will in the actual modernday Formula 1 race. Now, it's interesting that a lot of the Formula 1 drivers can actually call this their home race. Uh Charlotte Clair is probably the only one who can officially call it his home race cuz he's actually Monagas. He's from Monaco. He's born
here. Um but people like Lewis Hamilton, he's lived here for years. Max Vstappen lives here. Fernando Alonzo lives here. In actual fact, Ayan Senna used to also live here in Monaco and during one race many years ago, he crashed his car on the track and he was so annoyed at his engineers for distracting him that he went back to his apartment and they couldn't get him out for hours. Monaco Grand Prix has special standing as well. Uh it is mandated by the FIA, which is right over my shoulder here, that the race must have the minimum amount of laps in it that the race is over 305 km.
The Monaco Grand Prix doesn't qualify, if you like, for that because they only have uh enough laps to get 260 km because of the slower speed. It's only slightly over 2 mi in length of track and as a result, they don't make it to 305 km, but they get special dispensation because they're one of the original Formula 1 tracks. I used to work with the chief officer who hated Lewis Hamilton. And interestingly, his reason for hating him, he said that he didn't like him because he was rich and he didn't pay tax in the UK. Interesting perspective coming from a British seafarer who doesn't pay tax in the UK because of the seafare laws. But interestingly, when I did some searching, I found out that he was in the top 5,000 taxpayers in the
UK, even though he lives in Monaco. So, the money he earns in the UK, he still pays tax on. And he was top 5,000 uh taxpayers in the UK. So, we're stood on the famous corner that has the statue of Juan Manuel Fangio. Anthony Noog's corner. It's named after the person who started the race. He was the first uh race that they had in uh Monaco was the first GP they had was in 1929. Um this was before the Grand Prix that the Formula 1 even started. The first race uh in the Formula 1 in Monaco was in 1950. So Monaco is one of the founding uh members of uh Formula 1. In the last video, uh I was kind of making fun of Williams saying that they're they're probably most likely
down at the end. Um, I actually pointed out what I thought was Williams, but it's actually Alpine. Um, so in actual fact, Williams did quite well last year. As you can see, this is Williams here, right next door to Ferrari. Having said that, Ferrari had a really awful year last year. Uh, Lewis Hamilton said it was his worst year ever in Formula 1. But you can see Williams is right here. So, yeah, I do my cap to the Williams team for doing so well. Um they have had m you know bad fortunes in recent years but I do wish to see them well because they're a British team after all. If you're a younger uh viewer of Formula 1, you might not be aware, you might not be aware. Carlos Science is not the first person to as a racing
driver to have that name. His father, Carlos Stein Senior, now was a rally driver in the 80s and I actually grew up watching Carlos Stein uh racing cars in the Welsh forest in the UK quite amazingly. And a few years ago when I was in Peru, they had the Dhakar Rally in South America and Carlos Sior was one of the drivers and I actually saw him being interviewed. So yeah, quite remarkable that his father uh was a racing driver and obviously that's where he got his skills from. We're back down at the uh just after the chicane which is down there. And we've got the uh we've got the yachts here. These guys, look, this is Ferrari.
They've got Ferrari badges on here and Ferrari team members that we just saw earlier walking through the tunnel. They're here. So, this is a Ferrari boat. I remembered Liquid Sky was here last year. So, now we know cuz they used to hire a cruise ship I mentioned in a previous video. Uh, obviously they don't do that now. They hire the yacht instead. And I believe Mercedes yacht is just a few down. So, yesterday I mentioned a yacht and I said there's a ladder going down to the water and um and then I thought it was a Mercedes, but that guy there is wearing an F1. It looks like he looked like he's actually from the F1 uh organizers. So, it might be F1 themselves that have got
this boat. So, that's interesting. But, yeah, it's definitely I knew it was definitely uh connected to the race itself. Um this yacht over here, Liquid Sky, is the one I just mentioned. There's definitely a Ferrari on board. All right, so we're walking under the stands. So, we've got the swimming pool right there. Literal swimming pool and the part of the track that's named after it. And we're going to walk through to see some of the yachts here. Uh, including Oh, Aston Martin. Very nice. DBX. Nice. Oh, yeah. I like it. So, we've got Motto Faith. This is Lauren Stragot. So, that came in uh that was out to anchor last time I was here. And we've got Stella Maris. Look at
this. We got Stella Maris here. They've actually got a Formula 1 car in the beach club on the They've opened the stern door and they've got a Formula 1 car in there. Look at that. That's really interesting. On the top deck, which you can't see from here, there is a Koigseg. I think it's a Yesco or Jesco. Um, I'm not sure. I've got footage of it being loaded in San Ramo yesterday. I'll show you that footage so you can see the car. They've also got a sculpture on the bow of a Formula 1 car as well. Okay, so here we have Mot Faith. She This is I mean this yacht is stunning. I love a blue hull. I think it's I love I like a more traditional look. Um and
uh it's not just the color of the hull that makes me like it. It's the shape. I also like the wood as well. There's a lot of wood in there which is nice. All you know hogs back to old uh ships from the past although it would be completely different from those all heavily lacquered and varnished and stuff but a stunning looking vessel. Um, you know, it's unusual for an owner to go smaller. He had obviously the old faith was just under 100 m. This one's smaller. This is a just under 80 m this yacht or 260 ftish. And um it was delivered by Fedship last year. Um but it's a really stunning looking vessel.
Unfortunately, we're not going to see the uh the yacht club. Um I think they obviously Lawrence Stroll is here for the Grand Prix, so he's going to be staying on board. Most possibly Lstrol staying on board as well. I don't know. Maybe he has to stay with his team or something. I don't know. But yeah, stunning looking vessel. Um he can carry 14 guests. Interestingly, I don't know if that's accurate cuz usually if you go over 12 guests um it's a whole different ballgame in terms of construction and regulations. Um but um that's what the stats say that you can carry 14. It's possibly 12 guests and a cabin that's set up like a guest cabin, but it's for staff. uh you know which is a way of
getting around those regulations is you have one room that is you set up fully like a guest room and but it's for your staff like your chef or your security or some you know BS like that to get around the regulations. I see that happen quite a lot. Has a crew of about 20 and it has about 2 and a half thousand gross tons. In this area here, they're doing all the tires, balancing the wheels. So, all of the tires are supplied by one supplier, Pirelli, and they're fitted by the FIA. They make sure that there's nothing wrong with them, that they're all the same, so there's no unfair advantage for any of the teams.
Monaco has uh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world, has 39,000 residents that live here. uh but not all of them are born here. In fact, over 70% of those people are foreignb born. Now, only about 9,300 of the people who live in Monaco are actually born here, 9,300 of 39,000 people. Now, of those 39,000 Monaco residents, over 12,000 of them are millionaires or billionaires. As you can see, all the yachts are stocking up with their provisions. Mostly alcohol from what I can see. Seen some lobsters. Uh lots of ice being delivered. Also, like I said, tons of glasses and uh and boxes of alcohol, champagne, and wine and stuff like that. And that is pretty much all
the way along. It must be great business for the shops in Monaco at this time of the year. Now, this is a fact that you're not going to believe probably, but the total land mass of Monaco is smaller than Central Park in New York City. So, Central Park in New York City is 1.31 square miles in size, and the principality of Monaco is 0.78 square miles in size. We can see the crew bringing on provisions. This is how it's done on even every yacht. Uh massive yachts, small yachts, it's all the same. You bring it to the keyside and then you get all the crew out form a chain and you just pass it on and that chain will
go all the way down into the provisions area, you know, when the fridge and the chef will be at the bottom putting it all in the right places. Now, one of the things I mentioned in the previous video is that I said when the races on all of these boats move out and it sounds like a simple thing, but it's not simple at all. All these yachts right now are all connected to the they're obviously they're all more they've got the lines on, but that's the least of it. They've got um power cables on. They're connected to shore power. They've got waste lines on. They've got water lines on. And all that will need to be disconnected to move them out. And obviously people could come and go off the pastoral. Uh when they
move out there, they'll move out like I don't know 10 m out. They'll drop lines into the water. They'll fix shackles that are on the bed of the marina. And then they'll wait there and then they'll watch the race. Right. But to do that, they have to disconnect the show power. They have to start the generators in the other obviously they have to start the generators first, disconnect the shore power, move the vessel out, drop those lines, um, and they'll have to have divers in as well to connect those lines. It's a big job, you know, and they do it with every boat along here while the race is on or while the qualifying is on. And then when it's finished, they move them all back in again. So, it's it's like I said,
there's so much going on in Monaco during the Grand Prix, but it's like a welloiled machine. the Monaco Grand Prix. There are more yachts here than there are at the Monaco Yacht Show. So, obviously the yacht show is predominantly it's not just a hey look come and look at my yacht and look how much money I have. The yacht show is for people who are selling the yachts or for charter yachts who want to get people to come and charter, right? So, you have a lot of brokers will come and look at yachts and they'll sign them up to charter agencies and stuff like that. So that's what the Monaco Yacht Show is about. This is about bringing your yacht in to watch the race, right? Or chartering your yacht so other people
who can't afford a yacht can come to Monaco and watch it from a yacht. That's why there's more yachts here uh than there are during the yacht show. I'm going to wrap up this video here. I'm up on the seaw wall for the entrance to Monaco. Uh, it's a beautiful day, but it's quite windy, but it's beautiful day. It's about 24 25°, which is perfect in my opinion. Uh, not too hot that I get burnt to a crisp while I'm making these videos for you. Uh, we've seen all the yachts in the marina now all the new yachts that have come in the marina of interest. So, I'm going to, like I said, I'm going to wrap up here and join me
again. Stay tuned. There's going plenty more videos from Monaco and the Grand Prix ahead. So, be sure to subscribe and all that jazz. and I'll catch you in the next one.
