The history of the Monaco Grand Prix
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To be precise, it was at 1.30 p.m. on April 14th, 1929, that the first red light changed to green in the Principality of Monaco. A first edition held under the honorary presidency of HSH Prince Louis II. After HSH Prince Pierre opened the track on board a Voisin, race director Charles Faroux waved the flag for the sixteen competitors who where to fight it out over 100 laps of a circuit with a local distance of 318 km. It was in fact a certain Williams, in a green Bugatti 35 B, who drove to victory in this first edition of theMonaco Grand Prix, chalking up an average speed of 80.194 km/h...!