What To Watch For in the 2025 Monaco Grand Prix: Norris vs Leclerc, clever team tactics, and the new two stop rule

From the front row battle to new rules that mandate two pit stops, and from Red Bull potentially playing the team game to Mercedes needing to catch a break, here are five things to keep an eye on when we go racing around the streets of Monaco…

1. A crucial start

I can already hear you saying “Isn’t every start crucial?”, and yes, it is. But in Monaco, it’s even more so. The margin for error is pretty big, given it’s such a short run to Turn 1 that there’s not very long for the car in second place to make up enough ground to overtake the driver on pole position, but it’s not impossible – and it has of course happened in the past.