"I think that not only McLaren will be strong," he said, "I am expecting
Renault and
BMW, of course, to be strong again, above all on the track where qualifying can be different. You can be aggressive but, then, even if you run longer at that circuit, everything will be different. I think Monte Carlo will be a very important race for everyone.
"I'm expecting the others - again, not only
McLaren, but BMW and Renault too - to be very aggressive there, so we need to think very carefully about how to approach qualifying because that, for sure, will affect the race more than at other tracks. It will be two weeks of very hard work to try to see how we think we need to work and also how we think the others will attack us, above all in qualifying."
McLaren's return to something approaching front-running form in Istanbul gave
Ferrari something to ponder as it prepares for Monaco, and confirms Domenicali's suggestion that aggressive tactics could prevail in the Principality.
"The performance that we saw during the [Turkish] race was very good," he said of McLaren, "I always said that they are very strong and I think that we saw another standard that is completely different from the past. McLaren, in order to attack us, changed the philosophy of the race and changed the philosophy of qualifying, above all with Lewis [Hamilton].
"After the first pit-stop, we were already almost sure about Lewis' strategy, and that was the reason why we said to Felipe to be cautious when he was attacked by Lewis, because we were aware that he was much lighter at that time.
"But I think this is important, because they also have to react to our performance. I have always said the championship is very very long, it's always tough and I'm expecting for them still to be very aggressive."
