The one fact Matt left out of this video is that during the last laps of the race, Olivier Panis's race engineer yelled at him to pit because the calculations showed the amount of fuel he was carrying wasn't enough for him to reach the end of the race. They kept battling on the radio because the race was about to end and David Coulthard was right behind so pitting Panis would make him lose P1. Eager to win his first (and only) Grand Prix, Panis screamed back at his team on the radio: "If I pit now, we'll look like idiots throwing away a win. If I stay out and the car run out of fuel, so be it. I take responsibility for this. If it don't, you get a win. I'm not pitting" His engineer agreed and started to give him instructions to make the fuel last 'till the end. Due to the two-hour time limit, the race ended on Lap 75. If it had gone to full distance (78 laps), Panis would have retired for fuel exhaustion because the car wouldn't start again after he turned it off in front of the podium.

This will need to be updated after Sunday when Leclerc managed to finish the gp

When Panis crossed the line he managed to pick up a tricolore. The amazing thing was it was on a beautiful wooden pole with a brass finial. A French driver in a French car winning in Monaco (almost French) driving to the podium with a giant French flag draped over the engine cover!

Crashed on lap 1 yet his helmet still made it to a podium finish - That's some next level skill from Schumacher ;-)

What a crazy race. I wish I could watch the old races on YT or Netflix.

One of the other crazy things is that they just left some cars out on the track. I mean, we're used to cranes just operating while the race is still going back in the day, but seeing Badoer's car just stand there at the tunnel entrance for the last 8 laps or so is quite the sight to behold, though at least they was a yellow flag waved. The yellow flags right after the hairpin while stewards were salvaging Salo's car on the track is also noteworthy. It's a bit of a miracle that no one got seriously injured that day, but thankfully that makes it a great race to rewatch every once in a while since nothing bad happened. (Edit: If you're watching the race on F1TV, 2:02:40 is the Irvine/Salo/Hakkinen crash)

Imagine placing your bets on that outcome. You'd still be able to live of those winnings quite nicely.

This race was on the same day I was born. My Dad remembered it was on in the hospital waiting room tv. Only when I got into F1 did I ever think to look the race up, and it's a crazy one!

Imagine having this now with the podium as Yuki,Kmag and Albon

seeing as you mentioned the Sunday warm up, the fastest driver in that session was.... yep Olivier Panis! They definitely found a sweet spot in the wet conditions with the set up.

Johnny Herbert, who scored a podium in Monaco by finishing last in the race.

1950 Monaco GP also deserves honorable mention. At the start the big wave went on the track in the Tabac corner, Fangio went into the lead but Farina spun, Fagioli hitted him, and more cars crashed into them. On lap 1 we lost 10 drivers. It was first Ferrari race in F1 and also the race where Louis Chiron (from Monaco) was on the podium. Classic GP.

Good work! It's really important to show the crazyness of the 90's F1 to this new generation, and the ones who sign up to F1 TV can watch those old crazy races

i remember hearing about it on the radio, because we were traveling to our vacation this day and i have never seen the race until i found it on youtube years later. it did not disappoint.

Absolute bonkers. If that happened today it would be chaos in the racing direction room. And yes, back in those times the stewards were quite more lenient... the opposite of the over-zealoussness we sometimes see nowadays.

The thing about Luca Badoer, the incident that ended his race, he was roughly 5 laps down when he collided with Jacques Villeneuve. Villeneuve came to a halt at Lowes Hairpin with damaged suspension as a result of Badoer squeezing him into the wall at Mirabeau and Badoer stopped his car at the entrance of the tunnel, with damage to the suspension of his Forti

Ligier winning a race wasn't THAT unheard of. They actually won quite a few races during the first turbo era of the late 70s-early 80s, and were championship runners-up in 1980, but by 1996 they hadn't won a race in 15 years. That was also their last season in F1 before they went bankrupt, got bought out, and became Prost.

I love Monaco. It creates some great nail biting action. Great video once again guys.

The 96 season is amazing. It had Schumacher's first Ferrari win in a crazy weather changing Spain GP.

I remember this race, I was very young, I cried when Schumacher went out😭😭😭

this is the perfect example of "to finish first, first you have to finish"

"Retire to secure position" - not often gonna hear that

I remember watching it live, it was crazy, like an F1 race no one wanted to win, was gutted for Damon Hill in a way trying to emulate his father Graham, but then again I was shouting fir Jacque Villeneuve for d title. For a team like Ligier it was massive, no way todays Aston Martin, like today's Williams with even less of a budget, French team, French Driver winner and Mugen Honda engine won in F1 which raised interest in Honda returning to F1 a few years later, aka the current Mercedes team. Some guy called Lewis has won a few titles with them.

I love the old "story" about how crew for Rosset changed the name around on his pit bike to read Tosser. 😂🤣 If that's true it is hysterical.

My favourite race of all time! It's also incidentally the race that got me hooked up on F1. It's the oldest F1 race that I still have memories about watching it; was 7 years old at the time. Amazing race, always a pleasure to re-watch it!

Speaking of the warm-up session, MotoGP still has a warm-up session on race day

This must’ve been wild to see in real time. Well, you gotta do what you gotta do to make Monaco worth watching 😂

Schumi's helmet on square head David ruined the natural balance of F1, causing all the retirements, but also gave him a podium.

Yo I think you should make a random facts in every vid at the start coz there always good crack

Monaco 1996 was the first ever F1 GP I watched. I was 4 years old! If only F1 was always this exciting.

i think spa 2021 was the craziest race ever. like there's just so much happening it was just chaos

Great video Matt👍

Driver: **lines up on the grid** Team radio: "welcome to battle royal, the match is about to start."

Out of no where this guys videos have made me an F1 fan. The content is just so damn good

It's one of my favorite races to re-watch every few years or so.

1984 was crazy too, with a controversy at the end being the cherry on top.

Petition to have a race rundown from this race!

Canada 2011 would be my pick: Having a safety car is fun. Having two or three is noteworthy. The safety cars was deployed six times during this race. Speaking of six, the race winner (Jenson Button) made six pit stops, and finished after 4 hours and 4 minutes - making this the longest race in formula 1 history.

A liger wining a race like monaco is pretty amazing. And beating Coulthard in basically a 1v1 situation at the end is a definite feather to stick in your visor.

Just sounds like every single online lobby in the F1 game

I remember this race! It’s the first F1 match I watched on TV when I was 11! This is the only time I saw Panis standing on top 3, never before never after. The rain splash was so thick to the point the camera couldn’t pick up any good shot amidst the water mist! The voice on TV said, people who bought hotel rooms along the race track should ask for refund, because they wouldn’t be able to see anything.

Ahhh, the memories 😉 I was 12 years old back then, and this was my 3rd season of watching F1. So long ago, and I can still remember Irvine/Salo/Hakkinen crash like it happened yesterday. It's one of these pictures, that just burn into your brain to stay there forever 😀

This is the real life equivalent of a F1 2021 Open Lobby race

Monaco 1996 was the first ever GP i watched! Olivier Panis never forgotten!

Now this race sounds like a drive to survive ..

To warm up for this weekend, I watched 91-96 Monaco GPs and Spot On! That was the craziest race that I've ever seen 🤯

Bear in mind that it is also true that panis made some intelligent moves passing other cars and that the guys that were in front failed about strategy. Left alone that leaves no doubt he had some skill advantage and merit cause he also drove in the rain with a Middle field competitive car till the very end and without being challenged almost at all.

Saw it on tv live, loved it.

Every year that amazing story. Never gets old. 😊🤩

Craziest race I ever watched was that one when Massa was a champion for thirty seconds before "wait, is that Glock?" moment...I mean, sure, 3 cars finishing race is crazy, but have you ever experienced feeling of who is a champion change in half a minute or so? That's crazy af...I can list few other crazy races, but that emotional rollercoaster was just craziest thing ever...

That was one crazy race

1996. The best Monaco Grand Prix of all time. Apart from 1982, 1984, 1992, 1970 and 1997.

Now this deserves a retro race watch!

That's the only way Latifi would get a podium

Wtf1 back with the action!!

For anyone curious, the thumbnail is from the Formula 1 Indoor Trophy at the 1996 Bologna Motor Show.

Had to look this one up on F1 TV thanks to this video lol

1982 Monaco GP was a chaotic race with petrol stops in the legendary turbo era.

I watched this when it was live and still feel that all the points should be handed out even if cars don't finish, which would still have effects now with the top ten awarded points.

I love wtf1 his information is perfect on point that’s why I love you Matt not in a weird way and you are really cool and good!

Last time I saw 2/3 of the field retire in Monaco was in the F1 2017 game. The last f1 game I played ever since.

The 1982 race was a crazy one as well!

The 1998 Spa GP was fairly nuts for the just after first turn accident and then Schumacher going out by hitting DC, and Hill talking on the radio to Eddie Jordan telling Ralf needs to stay behind or they throw away a 1-2.

F1 fan for 45 years and I still love Monaco

That old Martin Brundle picture made my day

Remember this race. What a weekend it was 🤣

With the new cars and possible rain on Sunday, I expect a crazy race My bet for the podium is: 1. Bottas 2. Zhou 3. Albon

It's almost Laughable having a race where only 3 cars finish

i like how the video is up for 3 minutes and people are commenting great video

You forget to say the Mugen Honda engine in Oliver Panis’s Ligier almost broke before the race ends! Frentzen did retired, but still got the points for 4th place. It was a Monaco Grand Prix to remember 👍

2:23 I’ve never seen that livery. It looks really good.

This Race just gone was amazing! So unpredictable and Leclerc finally finished his home GP

This sort of chaos was pretty common back in the day lol

"The king of the grid walk Martin Brundle" lmaoooo Miami GP will always be a great grid walk memory

1996 gp yeah I watched the highlights yesterday, what a coincidence

Uhh Schumacher driving that Red Potato 🏎 🥔 putting it on P1 that was some qualifying very entertaining. And then my favourite driver crashing out on lap 1 sad 😞

Saw the race live on TV when I used to be the weird kid who stayed home watching the races, and now everyone does thanks to Netflix.

Spa 2021 was insane

I knew Schumacher crashing on lap 1 a day after he took pole by 0.5 seconds on the shortest lap on the calendar, that it was going to be a crazy race. Still gutted though for Damon and Alesi.

Talk about drive to survive, LOL.

This wasn't a race, but a battle royale

haha yeah, remember the race where Leclerc didn't finish? That was a wild one!

This is the moment when i go to the archive in F1TV

Christ I am old. I remember watching this race. And too cried whrn the legend retired

Missed opportunity for a race rundown in this video

0:45 david looks like a dame vampire

The only crazier f1 race that I remember involved a 🔧named Michael Masi 😭🤣

I remember watching this live.

"Ligier isn't a team unheard of." -Murray Walker

Singapore of 2017 was a very crazy race, monza of 2018,imola of 2021,mugello of 2020,spain of 2022,hungary if 2021, Italy of 2021

1998 Belgium GP is another crazy one that should be mentioned

Adelaide 1995 was pretty crazy

You just had to throw the Green Bull shade, did ya

I have a race but I wouldn’t say it’s crazier, but it was the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix where it was so wet that they didn’t do the whole race, and I think a few drivers retired as well.

Here’s hoping for changeable conditions this weekend🤞

Haven't seen any race like this ever again though... very sad chaos noises

The only time a F1 race became a BR and kudos for Irvine by going for the double, at the cost of his car too

IMO I think that this Monaco GP is going to be almost, if not more crazy than this one. The chance of rain is high and with Latifi on the grid, and these heavier, longer, and harder to control cars there’s a greater chance of crashes at Monaco than ever before.

If Monaco was like this these days, nobody would have a problem xD But the reliability of the cars and, frankly, skill of the drivers has just improved so much. There's no chaos anymore. That you can go five seconds slower and still not get overtaken adds to it as drivers don't have to go to the limit in the race.

5:02 - it wasn’t 6 laps later than the crash with Badoer, it was the next corner (steering broken), think Badoer was 6 laps behind him!