Ferrari and Charles Leclerc’s “Grand Rendez-Vous” in Monaco in Place of Canceled Monaco Grand Prix

Ferrari and Formula 1 race driver Charles Leclerc team up with filmmaker Claude Lelouch to shoot short film “Le Grand Rendez-Vous” in Monaco over the now-canceled Formula 1 weekend.

For many Formula 1 fans around the world, this past weekend has hit especially hard with the iconic Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix weekend canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Quite possibly the most glamorous weekend on the Formula 1 calendar, the cancellation of the 2020 Monaco Grand Prix marks the first time the event has been canceled since 1954.

Not wanting to break a long-running tradition of a having a Ferrari dominate the hairpin street circuit of Monaco, Ferrari lined up two of their best – the SF90 Stradale and Ferrari Formula 1 race driver Charles Leclerc – and collaborated with film-maker Claude Lelouch to create a short film in the hopes of boosting morale and celebrating the slow return to “normal” as industries begin to open up once again.

Inspired by his famous “C’etait Un Rendez-Vous” film, a hair raising short film shot in August 1976 that features a Ferrari 275 GTB hurtling at full speed through the streets of Paris at 5:30am in the morning, Claude Lelouch’s short film “Le Grand Rendez-Vous” instead sees Leclerc put Ferrari’s first series production hybrid model through its paces on the iconic streets of Monaco.

Designed as a tribute to the 90th anniversary of Scuderia Ferrari, the SF90 Stradale boasts a weight-to-power ratio of 1.57 kg/cv, 390 kg of downforce at 250 km/h and in many ways can be defined as the cross-over point of Ferrari’s technology between road and track cars.

Captured on the winding streets of Monaco, Charles Leclerc completed an adrenaline-fueled lap in the Ferrari SF90 Stradale on what would usually be the Formula 1 street circuit, all the while being filmed by Claude Lelouche and his team.

The famous Casino Monte-Carlo also makes an appearance as does HRH Prince Albert II of Monaco while Ferrari Chairman John Elkann, Prince Andrea Casiraghi and Pierre Casiraghi and Princess Beatrice Borromeo were all said to have visited the set during filming.

The official short film “Le Grand Rendez-Vous” is set to premiere on June 13 but in the meantime here’s a short behind-the-scenes of the filming.