2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[ringo]

He's in for a rude awakening if Lewis has other plans. It's going to be a long season!

I am wary of Merc and Russell. I really feel the car they had in Silverstone, Vegas and Spa will be the car that will show up in more of the races this season. Lando is also a qualy genius and strong stint runner. Charles need to consider being less forthright.

His response was about as bog standard as it gets for somebody in his position and with how Ferrari finished last year.

How you're reading so much into it all is absolutely bananas.

If you look at the other drivers doing this little f1 marketing exercise, you would see that they didnt take it so seriously and were very light hearted with their little chalk board. Charles answer comes off a bit fixated. He needs to loosen up a little.

[ScuderiaLeo]

If they were all shot at the same time as with the other drivers, then based on how bald Doohan is on those photos I would say before testing

Lol good catch! Maybe they should've waited until after

[deadhead]

He needs to loosen up a little.

nah, we like him as intense as possible

[Seanspeed]

He's in for a rude awakening if Lewis has other plans. It's going to be a long season!

I am wary of Merc and Russell. I really feel the car they had in Silverstone, Vegas and Spa will be the car that will show up in more of the races this season. Lando is also a qualy genius and strong stint runner. Charles need to consider being less forthright.

His response was about as bog standard as it gets for somebody in his position and with how Ferrari finished last year.

How you're reading so much into it all is absolutely bananas.

If you look at the other drivers doing this little f1 marketing exercise, you would see that they didnt take it so seriously and were very light hearted with their little chalk board. Charles answer comes off a bit fixated. He needs to loosen up a little.

Again, the amount you're trying to read into this is ludicrous. lol

[ringo]

There's more reading into from Journos from zero material.

I am seeing conflicing reports of issues with the handling of the car, even from Leclerc's account. Lewis is new so he really doesnt have an idea of how the car should feel relative to last year.

The team have reported successful testing. No mention of needing to fix or catch up a la Max and Wache. So I am wondering where did the negative view come from about this car having less load on the rear axle and inherent understeer.

[deadhead]

Just from people analyzing the telemetry from Bahrain and “on track impressions” but really no one knows anything.

Q3 and race day should give better indication but even then people will say that Melbourne is a unique track and it means nothing.

There is a slight chance of rain for Sunday too so…

[f1316]

A thought I keep going back to is 2019 and how good the Ferrari looked out of the box in cold conditions in testing. While the mega engine (whatever the cause and don’t want to get into that) meant the car was fast in quali on occasion, it never looked as good as it had in testing. The cause, if I remember correctly, is that the amount of sliding heated up the tyres better than any other team in those exact conditions, causing the car to look better than it actually was. Those cold circumstances never returned in the rest of the season (since Barcelona in March is colder than any cold race of the year at the time ie pre-Vegas) and in representative conditions the Mercedes had a lot more grip (allied to only showing their full hand late in testing).

I wonder if part of the picture seen in testing comes from similarly cool, unrepresentative circumstances and McLaren’s apparent step ahead of the others is due to this? Better warm up in the cool was likely a goal for McLaren (as it should have been for Ferrari but perhaps not something they wanted to overcompensate to achieve, given prior issues) - and perhaps even the suspension geometry has some bearing on this, given Wache’s
comments on the kinematics - so it may be that the McLaren car is similar to Ferrari’s in 2019: the king of testing but not something that translates to a full season.

Time will tell and perhaps I’m clutching at straws, but I would feel more concerned if the Bahrain test had been in the usual, warm , dessert conditions.

[Xyz22]

A thought I keep going back to is 2019 and how good the Ferrari looked out of the box in cold conditions in testing. While the mega engine (whatever the cause and don’t want to get into that) meant the car was fast in quali on occasion, it never looked as good as it had in testing. The cause, if I remember correctly, is that the amount of sliding heated up the tyres better than any other team in those exact conditions, causing the car to look better than it actually was. Those cold circumstances never returned in the rest of the season (since Barcelona in March is colder than any cold race of the year at the time ie pre-Vegas) and in representative conditions the Mercedes had a lot more grip (allied to only showing their full hand late in testing).

I wonder if part of the picture seen in testing comes from similarly cool, unrepresentative circumstances and McLaren’s apparent step ahead of the others is due to this? Better warm up in the cool was likely a goal for McLaren (as it should have been for Ferrari but perhaps not something they wanted to overcompensate to achieve, given prior issues) - and perhaps even the suspension geometry has some bearing on this, given Wache’s
comments on the kinematics - so it may be that the McLaren car is similar to Ferrari’s in 2019: the king of testing but not something that translates to a full season.

Time will tell and perhaps I’m clutching at straws, but I would feel more concerned if the Bahrain test had been in the usual, warm , dessert conditions.

The SF 90 simply lacked downforce in specific corners and the gap compared to RB and MB was so big that even in most track they couldn't regain the disadvantage in the straights. In high speed corners the car was actually ok, but especially in medium speed corners with high radius (i.e. last 3 corners in Hungary for instance) it was pretty much midfield level.
Already in the last day of testing, in the final sector, the W10 was performing significantly better than the SF 90.

[Seanspeed]

There's more reading into from Journos from zero material.

I am seeing conflicing reports of issues with the handling of the car, even from Leclerc's account. Lewis is new so he really doesnt have an idea of how the car should feel relative to last year.

The team have reported successful testing. No mention of needing to fix or catch up a la Max and Wache. So I am wondering where did the negative view come from about this car having less load on the rear axle and inherent understeer.

Impressions from watching testing mainly. And while nothing is definitive and conditions were abnormal for Bahrain, it was very, very clear that at least over the test, Ferrari very much had a similar low-to-mid speed turn-in understeer that we saw most of last season. A strength that Mclaren gained after its Miami update that was a big part of where they gained advantage on us.

But we'll see. As always, we never really see all the gloves off til like Q2. I'm not optimistic we've got a championship-capable car at all, but it doesn't mean it wont be a good car.

[LM10]

There's more reading into from Journos from zero material.

I am seeing conflicing reports of issues with the handling of the car, even from Leclerc's account. Lewis is new so he really doesnt have an idea of how the car should feel relative to last year.

The team have reported successful testing. No mention of needing to fix or catch up a la Max and Wache. So I am wondering where did the negative view come from about this car having less load on the rear axle and inherent understeer.

Impressions from watching testing mainly. And while nothing is definitive and conditions were abnormal for Bahrain, it was very, very clear that at least over the test, Ferrari very much had a similar low-to-mid speed turn-in understeer that we saw most of last season. A strength that Mclaren gained after its Miami update that was a big part of where they gained advantage on us.

But we'll see. As always, we never really see all the gloves off til like Q2. I'm not optimistic we've got a championship-capable car at all, but it doesn't mean it wont be a good car.

If you come to that conclusion simply by watching the car in testing through nothing more than your monitor at home - on top of not knowing what the team was even doing with the car’s setup and what not - I’m impressed.
But don’t be surprised seeing Ferrari winning races and fighting for the title later on. The picture will be clearer 3 races into the season.

Having said that, @f1361: What you’re saying does make absolute sense of course and I was also thinking of that. These cars are so on the edge that everything comes with a trade off. A big gap in such cold conditions should decrease once we get to usual higher temperatures which these cars are built to perform best at.