Monza Track Map Poster

Monza was built in 110 days. In 1922, some 3,500 workers laid it out inside the royal park of Monza, the walled grounds of a palace north of Milan, laid out as a model farm and hunting reserve, and it opened that September as one of the oldest permanent circuits in the world. Today its 5.793 km (3.60 miles) and eleven turns run clockwise with just 13 meters (43 ft) of elevation change: a track built for speed.

The first plan covered 14 km; to spare the park and its trees, it was cut back to 10 km: a road circuit and a banked oval. The corners still carry the park’s memory: the Lesmo bends were once the Curva delle Querce, the oak corner; the Roggia takes its name from a nearby stream; and the Serraglio recalls the royal deer enclosure in the woods, where game was bred for the hunt. The oval was torn down in 1938–39, and in 1955 two dangerous curves paved with porphyry cobbles gave way to a single sweeping corner named for its shape: the Parabolica.

This is the Temple of Speed. Cars spend most of the lap at full throttle, and at the end of the main straight they brake from over 330 km/h (205 mph) to under 90 km/h (56 mph) in less than three seconds for the first chicane. On the back straight, the Serraglio bends gently left beneath the old banking, which still stands. The lap record printed on the poster, 1:20.901, was set in 2025 at an average of 257.781 km/h (160.18 mph).

The poster numbers all eleven turns and names every corner, from the Variante del Rettifilo to the Parabolica, with the old banked oval traced in a muted line, looping around the Parabolica and crossing the back straight. Rosso, the Italian design studio edition, suits a circuit in Brianza, home of Italy’s furniture-design district. It was built in 110 days; it has lasted more than a hundred years.