Does Newey guarantee success and should Red Bull replace Perez?

Formula 1 returns to the lavish surroundings of Monaco for round eight for the 2024 season. Last year, Red Bull's Max Verstappen beat Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso to win a rain-affected race. BBC Sport's F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your questions before we head back to the streets of Monte Carlo. How have McLaren improved so quickly? – Mark The short answer to this is that team principal Andrea Stella has done an incredible job of turning McLaren around since he was promoted from performance director in the winter of 2022-23. Over that winter, with development not going as well as expected, Stella and chief executive officer Zak Brown instituted a reshuffle of the technical department. In February 2023, they fronted up to the media and were straight about where they were. The team had missed its development targets, and seen too late some fruitful aerodynamic avenues, they said. The start of the season would be slow, but an upgrade would come on stream in the summer - and then another. And that would put McLaren back in decent shape. Stella and Brown were true to their word, and since then not only have McLaren been on an upward trajectory, but they seem to fully understand why. That upgrade - in Austria last year - leapfrogged McLaren into the group behind Red Bull. For much of the second half of last year, they had the second-fastest car, until Ferrari came on strong in the last quarter of the season. Ferrari started this season stronger, too. But again Stella said an upgrade was coming that would make the difference, and again he has been proved right. It came in Miami, where Lando Norris won. In Imola on Sunday a close second to Max Verstappen followed. It’s all about great leadership, technical understanding, putting the right people in the right places and empowering them to do their job.