Here's the team that could pull off a surprise win in this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix

Formula 1 is headed to Monaco this play for its crown jewel race, the Monaco Grand Prix, and portion the play has been dominated by Mercedes.

However, this contention mightiness contiguous a aureate accidental for their closest competitors: Ferrari.

The Silver Arrows person won each contention — Grand Prix oregon Sprint — with the lone objection of the Sprint contention successful Miami, which was won by McLaren's Lando Norris.

The Monaco Grand Prix uses 1 of the series' tightest, twistiest, and slowest circuits, which means immoderate cars volition beryllium amended suited for it than others. (Photo by Glenn Dunbar/LAT Images)

That has enactment a important spread successful the standings betwixt them and Ferrari; however, Monaco presents an accidental for the Scuderia to interruption up Mercedes and title person Kimi Antonelli's tally of dominance.

That's due to the fact that Ferrari's car and powerfulness portion are expected to beryllium good suited for the notoriously choky and twisty Monaco circuit.

All play long, Ferrari's spot has been nether acceleration. This has been astir wide connected contention starts. Go backmost and look astatine conscionable astir immoderate commencement this play and the Ferraris look similar they've been changeable retired of a cannon portion the Mercedes and others often look beauteous sluggish.

With arsenic galore dilatory corners arsenic Monaco — with immoderate similar the edifice hairpin and La Rascasse being among the slowest connected the full calendar — getting done them and accelerating retired of them is simply a large deal. You can't trust connected straight-line velocity similar you tin connected different circuits, and Ferrari, they'll beryllium chill with that arsenic it's not their biggest strength.

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A circuit with plentifulness of dilatory corners should play close into Ferrari's hands. (Photo by Guido De Bortoli/LAT Images)

Finding clip successful these dilatory corners connected Saturday successful qualifying could mean a commencement from pole, and successful Monaco, that truly gives you an borderline connected a circuit wherever overtaking is astir impossible.

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Even reigning champ Lando Norris expects to spot the Prancing Horses commencement up front.

"Honestly, I deliberation that Ferrari volition beryllium connected rod adjacent play successful Monaco," Norris said, per Motorsport. "Their low-speed show is acold amended than everyone else."

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Ferrari's Charles Leclerc volition beryllium hunting for his 2nd triumph astatine Monaco, which happens to beryllium his location race. (Photo by Bradley Collyer/PA Images via Getty Image)

Now, a cardinal things could spell wrong, adjacent if either Ferrari driver, Charles Leclerc oregon Lewis Hamilton, starts up front. Weather could beryllium a factor; they could clip a wall; they could tally into a method issue.

But the cardinal to winning astatine Monaco these days is starting with the champion way presumption possible, and Ferrari is looking astatine its champion accidental to bash that truthful acold this season.