It is Saturday at the Monaco Grand Prix. Welcome to the biggest Formula 1 qualifying session of the season. Here are four big questions ahead of qualifying. Are Ferrari the team to beat? On the Thursday ahead of the 2024 United States Grand Prix Charles Leclerc stood in Ferrari’s hospitality space and told the assembled media,

F1 and its governing body, the FIA, hope a rule change for Sunday’s race will change that. Drivers will be forced to change tires at least twice in the hope that more pit stop strategy could shake up an event where Saturday qualifying — and the resulting grid position — is often more important than race day.