Gav has a point, the cars are so well balanced today that Monza no longer
looks like the challenge it is.
The end of the V10 era has gradually made the cars look like they're on rails.
If you've seen the onboard footage of Montoya setting the fastest ever lap there in the BMW Williams you know that the circuit layout is not the problem. He was on the very limit of adhesion for the whole lap and I'm still surprised that he didn't crash.
Watch 90s footage of the race and you'll see as Gav describes cars twitching, sliding around and visibly being far closer to the edge. And that's what I love about Monza and the old Hockenheim the cars constantly looked on the verge of being out of control, visibly moving around under braking and wheel-spinning under acceleration.
Unfortunately F1 lacks a bit of variety in circuits today. There's too many 'Tilkedromes' built to the same recipe of slow to midspeed corners leading onto long straights followed by hairpins.
Although I'm still not sure about Baku.. At least by F1's recent standards it's different.
Circuit variety is something that Indycar does better than F1. They have a mixture of road course, street track and oval. I'm not suggesting that F1 should adopt ovals but it certainly lost something when it left the Indianapolis road course. Whilst that was never the most epic of tracks it still had that certain something to make it stand out.
F1 needs to stop with the Tilkedromes machine, hang onto its classics such as Monaco, Spa, Monza, Silverstone, Montreal and Interlagos, embrace the recent successes such as Singapore and then think outside of the box for new venues, like Baku... But a little better.