©TheCahierArchive If you're going to win just a single Grand Prix in your F1 career, Monaco is most definitely the one any driver would want to have on their track record. It wasn't a stunning lights-to-flag win à la Beltoise, but Olivier Panis' triumph in the Principality on this day in 1996 was a stunner, nevertheless. The Ligier charger had launched his race from a lowly P14 on the grid but attrition in the ranks, mainly due to many drivers - including poleman Michael Schumacher - being caught out by the treacherous wet-to-dry conditions, had propelled the Frenchman all the way up to third by the race's half-way mark. But the successive retirements of Damon Hill and Jean Alesi due to...
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