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The Roar, the Riches, the Race: Previewing the Monaco Grand Prix
Ninety years after it was first run, the race still reigns supreme on the Formula One calendar.
Racing legend Niki Lauda takes a turn at the Grand Prix in 1985.
Photographer: GP Library Limited/Alamy Stock
The first place I ever hitchhiked was Monte Carlo. I’d never considered it before, but I found myself sun-cooked and far removed from my lodging—a whitewashed condo somewhere far above the sapphire Mediterranean—with no way to get there.
Sauntering along a narrow footpath near Quai des Etats-Unis in 2016, winding away from Monaco’s gleaming seaside boutiques, I was exhausted but in high spirits. The day had been a cacophony of money, power, and adrenaline I was unlikely to experience anywhere else.