All the headaches Monaco qualifying will give F1 teams

With engine power and energy levels not a major factor around Monte Carlo, the fight for pole position in Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix is back to being influenced by more typical things.Mechanical grip and downforce count for a lot, but at the top of the list of performance priorities is tyre preparation – with so much of the lap time revolving around getting the rubber into the right temperature.As Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur said after Friday practice: “Now we have a kind of convergence of understanding of the car. Tyres are becoming again prominent to the performance.”The key to nailing the perfect lap around Monaco is about keeping the operating temperatures of both the front and rear axles in the right window.And that can be quite a difficult thing bec …