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Who is the greatest Monaco Grand Prix driver of all time?

By YPB Team

Qualifying decides Monaco more than any other race, so the winners' list rewards a very particular skill. Barriers on both sides, no room to correct anything.

  1. Ayrton Senna — ranked #11
    Ayrton Senna
    Won at Monaco six times, five of them in a row between 1989 and 1993.
  2. Alain Prost — ranked #22
    Alain Prost
    Took four Monaco wins in the 1980s, three of them consecutively from 1984.
  3. Graham Hill — ranked #33
    Graham Hill
    Called Mr Monaco after five wins in the 1960s around the old harbour layout.
  4. Michael Schumacher — ranked #44
    Michael Schumacher
    Five Monaco victories spread across his Benetton and Ferrari years.
  5. Lewis Hamilton — ranked #55
    Lewis Hamilton
    Three Monaco wins including the 2008 victory in changing wet conditions.
  6. Stirling Moss — ranked #66
    Stirling Moss
    Three-time winner whose 1961 defence in an outdated Lotus is a Monaco benchmark.
  7. Nico Rosberg — ranked #77
    Nico Rosberg
    Won three Monaco Grands Prix in a row from 2013 to 2015, matching his father's home success.
  8. Jackie Stewart — ranked #88
    Jackie Stewart
    Three Monaco wins in the late 1960s and early 1970s during his championship years.
  9. Juan Manuel Fangio — ranked #99
    Juan Manuel Fangio
    Won the race in 1950 and again in 1957 in two very different eras of the sport.
  10. Niki Lauda — ranked #1010
    Niki Lauda
    Back-to-back Monaco wins for Ferrari in 1975 and 1976.
  11. Jack Brabham — ranked #1111
    Jack Brabham
    Won at Monaco in 1959 on the way to his first world championship.
  12. Max Verstappen — ranked #1212
    Max Verstappen
    Monaco winner in 2021 and 2023, and a Monte Carlo resident.
  13. Charles Leclerc — ranked #1313
    Charles Leclerc
    The Monegasque who ended a long home drought by winning his own Grand Prix in 2024.
  14. Fernando Alonso — ranked #1414
    Fernando Alonso
    Two Monaco wins with Renault and McLaren in 2006 and 2007.

Comments 1

Graham Hill won five Monacos and got called King of Monaco for it, one fewer than Senna managed and one more than Prost: https://youpick.best/articles/senna-vs-prost-ranked

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Aug 21