[adouglas]

Monaco has always been that way. You don't watch it for the racing... you watch it for the spectacle and the eye-popping on-board footage. Unlike anything else in the world... when I want to introduce people to how cool F1 is I show them that race. People who don't get racing aren't impressed by passes. They're struck by the overall impression of speed.

Boring is in the eye of the beholder. I give you the Indy 500. Equally rich history and sure there are passes... but they're pointless because every time the course goes yellow the whole thing effectively resets. It looks exactly the same from start to finish... all you really need to do is watch the last dozen laps.