The world-renowned Monaco Grand Prix hosts round six of this year’s FIA Formula One World Championship. One of only four current races to have formed part of the original 1950 Formula One World Championship, the Monaco Grand Prix this year makes its 57th appearance on the Formula One calendar. This Monte Carlo street race can trace its origins back to 1929, before the formation of the Formula One World Championship, when an Anglo-Frenchman known only as “Williams” won the first Grand Prix de Monaco in a Bugatti 35B. This year’s grid boasts five former winners: McLaren’s Jenson Button (2009) and Lewis Hamilton (2008); Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso (2006-07); Lotus’ Jarno Trulli (2004) and Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher (1994, ’95, ’97, ’99 and 2001). Monaco’s uniquely challenging layout traditionally provides incident and drama, thanks to the bumpy nature of the track surface and circuit-lining crash barriers that allow little margin for error. New-for-2010 regulations that have banned in-race refuelling and brought in narrower front tyres are likely to make car preservation more important than ever this year.