Monaco Grand Prix

A HYPERTRASH TRAVEL GUIDE
How to do it and why it should stay on the Formula One calendar… Forever!

Words: Nathanael Napolitano
Photos: Nathanael Napolitano and Ian Meyer

Or maybe I should say welcome back? I was last here in 2019 covering the GP for an annual photo portfolio update. Oddly—and perhaps inappropriately—Monte Carlo is where HYPERTRASH was born, or at least conceived. It was on that 2019 trip when it occurred to me—looking around at the grotesque display of wealth and super hyper cars—It occured to me, I have absolutely no business beibg there among the international, jet-setting, celebrity, elite. 

The juxtaposition of the rag-tag, unsavory,  drive-what-you-got, car enthusiast nobody (me), showing up uninvited to the playground for ultra-wealthy, one-percenters (them)—at the greatest racing spectacle on the planet. Somehow it seemed to make all the sense in the world. The ultimate mash-up. Sort of a Costanzian-esque "They don't want us there, so we're [fucking] going." 

It's the same attitude we [HYPERTRASH] apply to Monterey Car Week: Unobtainable, Sotheby's museum pieces, and funny costume snobbery. As I walk around Monte Carlo I hear everything I see narrated in the voice of Robin Leach—because it's all a bit 'Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous'.         

Or it is?