From Max Verstappen heading the two title rivals to Ferrari\u2019s home race hopes, and from some quick cars potentially out of position to the impact of a DRS \u2018train\u2019, here are five things to look out for when the lights go out at Monza on race day\u2026<\/p>\n
1. Verstappen\u2019s impact on the title contenders<\/p>\n
Qualifying has been extremely close on a number of occasions this season, but after the summer break the title picture always starts to come into greater focus, so Max Verstappen<\/a> beating the two McLarens to pole position adds an extra layer of intrigued to Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n Lando Norris<\/a> is looking to make inroads into the 34-point lead Oscar Piastri<\/a> has opened up following the drama at Zandvoort, and ticked off his first objective by out-qualifying his team mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Max Verstappen heading the two title rivals to Ferrari\u2019s home race hopes, and from some quick cars…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-403224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}