Every year, I see comments from people getting overly excited over the somewhat tame shots of women in micro bikinis shown on television before and during the race. Well, for the people working in the pressroom, this sideshow starts hours before the actual race, when TV cameramen test their equipment. Knowing that their feed will not get transmitted beyond the television closed circuit of the Automobile Club, they seem to start a frantic hunt for naked women, and sure enough they find some, on which they can try the full resolution of their zoom lenses. I can therefore testify that journalists present in the pressroom are spoilt compared with the average viewer. I won't talk about the race itself, as I wouldn't be able to tell anything out of the ordinary.
Some people love it, and others think it belongs to the past.
But judging from the attendance, Monaco is still a very popular event, traditionally drawing a large crowd from nearby Italy, and more recently a lot of people from Germany. But once the race is over, it only takes a couple of hours for these people to leave the Principality. Grandstands are left standing like useless skeletons, and tons of trash under them have to be disposed of. Teams will be leaving later in the evening, or early the following morning, and Monaco will become again the place it is 361 days a year. But for the Automobile Club, the marathon is far from over, as everything has to be removed before the summer season starts and another kind of tourist invades Monaco.