Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc have each pushed the brand new Ferrari SF-25 for the primary time throughout a shakedown on the workforce’s Fiorano take a look at observe.
The 2025 livery was revealed alongside the opposite 9 groups finally night time’s F1 75 Reside occasion in London, however each drivers shortly returned to Maranello forward of the primary run for the brand new automotive this morning. Leclerc was first out on observe in Italy earlier than handing over to Hamilton, as Ferrari confirmed off a refreshed design that’s supposed to supply larger improvement alternative by way of the season.
A change from push rod to tug rod entrance suspension is the obvious seen change to the entrance of the automotive and is designed to extend the scope of aerodynamic improvement obtainable to the workforce, after it stated it felt it reached a ceiling with final 12 months’s resolution.
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“The SF-25 is an evolution of the SF-24, which gave us a wonderful start line to work from,” chassis technical director Loic Serra stated. “Having stated that, we’ve got labored onerous, altering 99% of the automotive, evolving its structure to maximise efficiency. The pull rod entrance suspension is barely the obvious of many important adjustments.
“We are able to anticipate the approaching season to be very intently contested, with outcomes determined by thousandths of a second. We’re all set to provide it our greatest shot to seek out these beneficial properties, even the marginal ones, that may make the distinction. We’re wanting ahead to being aggressive proper from the very first race.”
Though workforce principal Fred Vasseur has made clear the conceptual choices had been made earlier than Serra’s arrival from Mercedes, the brand new technical chief additionally insists it’s not a threat to make substantial adjustments, regardless of Ferrari scoring essentially the most factors of any workforce — and Leclerc essentially the most of any driver — from the summer season break onwards final 12 months.
“The principle idea of the SF-25 is actually about discovering some house to spice up the aerodynamic improvement and the event normally. The SF-24 completed fairly robust, nevertheless it was changing into increasingly troublesome to develop and discover efficiency,” he stated. “So, we needed to kind of discover house to spice up the event fee.
“The automotive is extra of a continuity of the earlier automotive. We’ve modified many of the elements on the automotive, however the principle efficiency idea stays the identical. So, I truly don’t anticipate a studying curve that’s steeper than final 12 months.
“Hopefully, the event fee will likely be boosted in comparison with what it was finish of final season. However I’m not anticipating essentially to function the automotive in a really totally different place.”
