George Russell offers two ways to fix Monaco GP as Max Verstappen cracks Mario Kart joke

George Russell offered two ways to improve the after . Monte Carlo remains an iconic venue for to visit each year, but these day the sport does so with cars bigger and heavier than ever before.

That makes overtaking almost impossible, as discovered when was driving deliberately slow ahead of him to give team-mate a pit window. were not the only ones attempting such tricks and the racer was so frustrated that he lost his cool.

Fed up of Albon's "erratic" driving, he cut the Nouvelle Chicane to overtake and said over the radio he'd rather get a penalty than give the place back. , which saw him lost about 20 seconds in time.

He finished pointless but was in a good enough mood to offer a tongue-in-cheek suggestion in terms of how to make the Monaco race more entertaining. "I've got a really good idea. Every driver has a button where they get a chance to put some sprinklers on around the track," he said.

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"You get a choice of whether you want to do it in qualifying or in the race, but you can only do it once in the whole weekend. The sprinklers come on, it spices it up a bit. I think that's the only solution."

He then went on to offer another, slightly more realistic suggestion for the future of the race, which is renowned for offering a far more entertaining qualifying session than the race itself. And Russell pointed out that, while there was still an army of fans watching on on Sunday, most of them are there more for the event itself rather than the racing action.

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The Mercedes driver said: "You could argue, let's do two qualifying sessions. You have a Saturday qualifying race and that's the victory, and then you have a Sunday qualifying race and that's the victory. I don't know.

"The race is pretty silly, unless you have excessive rain. We've been fortunate that a couple of races in the last few years we've had rain and we were lucky. But this is Monaco, you don't have any other race like this. Probably 95 percent of the people who come here, they don't come to watch the race."

Neither of Russell's ideas were quite so fun as what offered, though, as the smiled while he said: "You can't race here anyway, so it doesn't matter what you do. One stop, 10 stops... even at the end, I was in the lead but my tyres were completely gone and you still can't pass me.

"Nowadays, with an F1 car you can just pass a Formula 2 car around here. I get it, but I don't think it has worked. We were almost doing Mario Kart. We'll have to install bits on the car, maybe throw bananas around. Make a slippery surface."