Formula 1TM measures careers in seasons, success in fractions of a second and change almost by the weekend. Michel Boeri’s presidency operates on another timescale altogether.
The 87-year-old president has secured another five years at the head of the Automobile Club de Monaco, extending a tenure that began in 1972. His latest mandate runs until 2031, almost six decades after he first took charge.
At the club’s general assembly on Wednesday 21 October, held at the Sporting Monte-Carlo, members delivered an emphatic endorsement of the veteran president. The ACM described the result as a landslide, with more than 1,000 members participating in the renewal of its governing bodies. A subsequent club account put the number represented at nearly 1,200.
For an organisation whose work involves turning a densely built Principality into an international racing venue, continuity carries particular weight. Every Grand PrixTM requires an extraordinary temporary transformation: ordinary streets become a circuit, harbour space becomes working paddock territory, and a city’s daily routines give way to the demands of global sport.
Boeri has overseen that balancing act across generations of drivers, machinery and commercial expectations. The ACM’s own presidential history dates his arrival to the 1972 Grand PrixTM. Fifty-four years later, he remains responsible for helping Monaco accommodate a sport that keeps asking more of its hosts.
Noteworthy also is the election to the board of journalist and television producer Yann-Antony Noghès, grandson of Antony Noghès, the creator of the Monaco Grand Prix. That family connection gives the development particular resonance.
A new rhythm on familiar streets
With his re-election secured, Boeri’s attention now turns to the racing calendar ahead.
The most conspicuous change ahead arrives in June 2027, when Monaco hosts its first Formula 1TM Sprint weekend. Across the event’s four days, from 3 to 6 June, spectators will see two F1TM qualifying sessions and two races.
Friday brings Sprint Qualifying; Saturday combines the Sprint itself with qualifying for Sunday’s Grand PrixTM . On a circuit where securing a strong starting position is so valuable, that gives teams another competitive challenge to negotiate between the barriers.
Before then, the ACM’s year begins with the Rallye Monte-Carlo on 21–24 January, followed by the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique from 27 January to 3 February. The Monaco E-Prix follows on 1–2 May. The Historic Grand Prix returns in 2028, rather than featuring in the club’s 2027 programme.
It is a calendar that stretches from winter rally roads to electric racing and the Formula 1TM latest weekend format.
At its centre remains a president appointed long before any of today’s F1TM drivers were born. Boeri’s renewed mandate now asks him to do two things at once: deliver Monaco’s next great racing occasions and help prepare the people who will organise those that follow.
