Greater than a 3rd of the 2025 System 1 season is now behind us, and the present championship is getting into a vital section—vital not just for this 12 months’s outcomes but additionally for what lies forward. A transparent instance is Ferrari, a staff dealing with key choices within the coming weeks: whether or not to proceed believing within the SF-25 and its potential or to start specializing in 2026. The upcoming races, resembling Austria and Britain, will likely be decisive in shaping the Italian staff’s route. Among the many challenges of 2025, which the engineers at GeS are attempting to handle with a brand new rear suspension anticipated to debut in early summer season, reliability points linked to the facility unit appear to have triggered extra concern alongside the shortage of velocity. This suspension is geared toward resolving a part of the automobile’s weaknesses by unlocking the package deal’s potential, which at the moment can’t emerge attributable to mechanical limitations brought on by the present suspension structure.
Extra issues?
As beforehand reported solely throughout the Jeddah weekend, Ferrari’s engine division had changed the facility items of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton as a precaution after seeing troubling information, anticipating a change initially scheduled for Miami. In Florida, Ferrari clients like Haas and Stake skilled structural failures within the energy unit—just like what occurred to Esteban Ocon at Imola. And it was at Imola the place a staff member informally confirmed these issues when requested whether or not there was confidence in engine sturdiness. The person didn’t reply calmly or reassuringly, as a substitute selecting to keep away from the query and place hope in future enhancements.
Moreover, as we additionally reported solely, Ferrari seems to have determined to cut back the mileage of its energy items to protect reliability, whereas working—if attainable—on a repair. This transfer, although it doesn’t have an effect on engine efficiency, may lead to grid penalties for Ferrari and its buyer groups earlier than the top of the season, as they might be unable to complete the 12 months throughout the 4 items allowed by the FIA.
Between hope and (some) admission…
A brand new headache, then, for the Italian facet, which additionally appears to have confronted hassle in Spain, the place till the arrival of the Security Automobile, the SF-25s had been working easily. After the restart, nevertheless—regardless of Charles Leclerc’s assault on Max Verstappen and a theoretically higher tempo because of brisker tyres—the Monegasque by no means managed to tug away from the automobiles behind and crossed the road in a decent pack after his tempo collapsed within the ultimate laps. The same state of affairs affected Lewis Hamilton, who, regardless of being quicker than his teammate within the second stint, pale after the Security Automobile and was even overtaken by Nico Hulkenberg’s Stake. In brief, an entire blackout for Ferrari, which doubtless has its roots in technical—or extra exactly, engine-related—points on each automobiles.
This state of affairs appears possible not solely attributable to gathered info but additionally due to hints dropped by staff principal Fred Vasseur, who confirmed points with the automobiles throughout the post-race press convention.
“We had an issue on the automobile within the ultimate stint. We had points on each automobiles, however they weren’t oil-related (Toto Wolff had mentioned he noticed a leak from Charles Leclerc’s automobile). I don’t know the place it was coming from, possibly from the automobile behind. However that’s not the difficulty we had.” – the French supervisor identified on the finish of the Spanish Grand Prix.
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