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That was the best Monaco Grand Prix I've attended for a good while. Monte Carlo was really buzzing with people and activity and the track action was great. Formula 1 did the TV feed for the first time and it energised the spectacle.
I walked around the track with a Sky F1 camera during Practice Two as usual and was blown away by the speed, commitment and accuracy of the cars and drivers. The track surface becomes ever more like a race circuit than a road in terms of smoothness, cambers, and general lack of street furniture, along with level run-off areas in places where there used to be unyielding barriers.
Where we would spend most of our time simply trying to avoid a crash with a wildly moving car and a manual gear shift, the drivers have translated today's challenge into raw speed and pinpoint precision at barely believable speeds.
It is still easy enough to crash of course and the driver who suffered most was last year's winner and street circuit specialist Sergio Perez. Early into the first part of qualifying he simply arrived too quickly into Saint Devote Turn One and smashed into the outside barrier. He'd likely been a little distracted by an Alpine getting out of his way by diving into the long pit-lane exit, but whatever the reason it put a huge dent in his Red Bull car and his championship battle with team-mate Max Verstappen.
He would start 20th and last and meanwhile, just as we had seen earlier when Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes was craned away remarkably high into the sky, the world of F1 got a great and no doubt well-photographed view of all aerodynamic channels and elements of the super fast Red Bull's all important under-floor.