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I'm regularly wrong, but i'm expecting very little.
The front-runners will go around in a procession around 2 seconds apart. They'll hold station until the first wave of pit stops.
The drivers outside the points in around 12th to 15th will pit slightly earlier in an attempt to undercut. The drivers from 8th to 10th will react and free up space for the front-runners to pit into. The ones at the front go first because they'll have first-dibs. Only really a pit-stop error, or the hesitation to pit in case one happens will affect this.
Then a period of calm and by the second stops the front-runners already have a pit-stop window to go into so the ones at the front wait for the one in second to jump and then hope 2-3 seconds is enough to avoid undercut, which it should be.
So pretty processional but the mechanics earn their vending-machine money twice being the only difference.
Sure, a crash could liven it up and change that but I don't think people push it that much at Monaco outside of qualifying and the first corners and the cars are too big for wheel-to-wheel racing and can barely follow.
Maybe a rookie gets abit trigger happy and bins it. Seems unlikely though as even Franco wouldn't do something stupid this time out.
So, guaranteed best race of the year contender coming up!