1922 → 2026 The nickname isn't rhetoric: it's a technical description.
Monza is the fastest circuit on the Formula 1 calendar, and not by chance: it was built that way. Immense straights, hardly any slow corners, a layout that forces teams to turn up with the lowest-downforce set-up of the year — less grip, more pure speed.
It is the one race where Formula 1 deliberately gives up part of its own technology to chase the only thing that counts here. This tarmac has produced the fastest lap in the history of the championship, at an average above 264 km/h, and the closest finish ever recorded: one hundredth of a second, in 1971. In an era when every new circuit is designed to slow cars down, this one keeps making them go faster than anywhere else.
Then there is the "temple" part, and that is not a metaphor. Inside the park, abandoned for over fifty years and never demolished, the banked curves of the high-speed oval still stand, looking today like an archaeological ruin. It is a place born in a hurry: built in a hundred and ten days in 1922, the third permanent circuit in the world after Brooklands and Indianapolis, opened on 3 September — exactly 104 years before the day FuoriGP 2026 lights up the centre of Monza.
