About Monza
Monza is the second track on Chase P1, built in the week before the Italian Grand Prix. It is a scaled interpretation of the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, the fastest circuit on the Formula 1 calendar and the one they call the Temple of Speed.
The real lap is 5.8 km, which in this car would take about three minutes. That is too long for a time trial you play in a browser, so the circuit is scaled to a lap of around 45 seconds. The corner sequence is the real one: the Rettifilo chicane at the end of the main straight, the long Curva Grande, the Roggia chicane, the two Lesmos, Ascari, and the Parabolica that fires you back onto the straight. The radii are tuned to this car rather than measured from a map, so each corner asks roughly what its real counterpart asks: heavy braking into the chicanes, flat out through Curva Grande, patience on the Parabolica exit.
Monza is a closed circuit, the first on Chase P1. Start and finish are the same line, and a lap only counts once you have passed the far side of the course, so there is no shortcut and no reversing over the line. The board keeps every racer's best lap; beat your own and it moves up.
Along the way you pass the grandstands, the pit complex and the trackside boards. The boards are house ads for now. That space is for sale.