According to certain scientific calculations – with a ladle – there would be ten million bubbles in a bottle of champagne. The sparkling cuvée of this 80e Monaco Grand Prix fully uncorked, we can say that we counted the stars present, like the champagne bubbles: en masse!
The people, in spades, answered the call. And rare are the events capable of mixing and bringing together celebrities from diverse backgrounds. The Monaco Grand Prix is one of them. We didn’t necessarily expect to see PSG star Neymar, who would always “problems getting around according to her trainer, find flexibility to strike a pose between Kylie Minogue and Maria Sharapova on the starting grid. Or witness a great conversation, in the pits, between Spider-Man and a Pirate of the Caribbean.
Did the British Tom Holland and the American Orlando Bloom talk regarding cinema or cars? Only they know. But it is clear that Red Bull has managed a premium assembly by inviting a swarm of stars converging on the stable with the floating barge, whose star driver has – in addition – offered the victory on Sunday.
To this cocktail, influencers were added as if it were raining, feeding Instagram, TikTok and Twitter with their shots.
Invisible on the track, Hailey Bieber (wife of Justin) followed the race from the deck of a yacht. Where Léna Situations, Iris Mittenaere or Baptiste Giabiconi preferred to survey the pitlane as an observer.
From Friday, the furtive passage in the Monegasque paddocks of Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper, artist most streamed in the world, gave a hint that the edition might be surprising in terms of participants.
Is it a Liberty Media leverage effect determined to restore glamor to Formula 1 on the track and around the circuits? Or a collateral effect like revenge travel post-pandemic which pushed the public and the VIPs to come back to get drunk – in real life – on the Monegasque circuit? The analyzes will perhaps say so, but while waiting for the images of this 80e Grand Prix will be able to fill the People archives of the Principality. Until next year !