Dec.20 (GMM) Frederic Vasseur says Ferrari’s automotive for the 2025 season shall be “fully new”.
It’s a shocking assertion, given the Maranello primarily based staff’s end-of-season competitiveness and the truth that 2025 is the ultimate 12 months of the prevailing laws earlier than the all-new chassis and engine guidelines for 2026.
Christian Horner, as an illustration, was requested whether or not Pink Bull’s 2025 automotive shall be evolutionary or revolutionary, and he admitted: “It is going to be a little bit of each.
“There shall be developments in several areas of the automotive and main adjustments in others,” he mentioned, noting that will probably be the primary Pink Bull that Adrian Newey didn’t design.
“The staff has to rise to the problem and I’m assured they may. We’ll see what the RB21 seems like when it’s unveiled on the finish of January.”
Nevertheless, Horner’s counterpart at Ferrari says the Italian staff has a really completely different strategy to 2025.
“We’re within the fourth 12 months of making use of these laws and we all know our earlier mission very effectively,” mentioned Vasseur. “That’s the reason the 2025 automotive shall be fully new.”
He added that the 2025 Ferrari “will share lower than 1 %” with the crimson single seater that was raced by Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc this season.
Spanish broadcaster DAZN believes the adjustments embrace a cockpit place change, as per Lewis Hamilton’s request, which additionally means adjustments to the engine mounting and a shorter gearbox. Moreover, a transfer to McLaren-style pull-rod entrance suspension is anticipated, in addition to Mercedes-like brake cooling.
However though Vasseur appears to have been receptive to Hamilton’s cockpit place request, the Frenchman says the seven time world champion won’t be bringing any engineers with him from Mercedes.
“No,” he insisted, “as a result of we’ve no intention of replicating Mercedes right here at Ferrari. Now we have our guys and the suitable sources to win, so let’s work to create an authentic. I don’t need a copy.
“He’ll carry his personal experiences and background, however that doesn’t imply we’ve to vary our strategy. I feel Lewis will perceive that completely,” Vasseur added.
“I do know Lewis very effectively, however we should not copy and paste from Mercedes. The working setting there was superb in the beginning and fewer good on the finish. They aren’t the champions. We should do one thing completely different.”
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