2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[Fakepivot]

should this current management fail, and there is a rest, lewis retires and charles leaves other team, should the new management go for a more no1 and no2 driver instead of oh we have two no1 play? sometime i can see why red bull gets it right with strategies and stuff since they practically only focus on max..

[Farnborough]

To partially quote a Red Bull fan who posts on the forum. Lewis will want revenge/ justice (can’t quite remember their post word for word) for 2021.

He’s not playing rear gunner till he’s mathematically out of contention

Oops! Already someone has stepped on a landmine, or multiples of such the last thing a Ferrari thread needs is this provocation.

[CjC]

To partially quote a Red Bull fan who posts on the forum. Lewis will want revenge/ justice (can’t quite remember their post word for word) for 2021.

He’s not playing rear gunner till he’s mathematically out of contention

Oops! Already someone has stepped on a landmine, or multiples of such the last thing a Ferrari thread needs is this provocation.

Yep. My partial quote if only from a week or 2 ago as well with regard to Verstappen falling short last season and needing to seek revenge/ justice.

[dans79]

I ask because I think it's quite likely that Leclerc will take a decisive lead from the get go.

O please..............

[sucof]

The chances are quite high though, that Leclerc will be similarly faster than Ham like last year. In that case, Hamilton will have close to zero argument and power to create such tensions.

I might add, Ham is thinking this type of cars will suit him, while there is a lot more to these new cars he will not handle well... the continuous playing with recharge and battery management will not be his strong side, imho. And this will make him even more sad and disappointed.
Future telling OFF.

[Badger]

I ask because I think it's quite likely that Leclerc will take a decisive lead from the get go.

O please..............

Seems like a perfectly reasonable expectation given recent history.

[dans79]

I might add, Ham is thinking this type of cars will suit him, while there is a lot more to these new cars he will not handle well... the continuous playing with recharge and battery management will not be his strong side, imho. And this will make him even more sad and disappointed.
Future telling OFF.

You know Lewis and Alonso both have extensive experience with cars like this right? Prior to 2014 drivers had to decide when to deploy kers, and they had to do it manually. DRS was similar during qualifying in 2011 & 2012, drivers could manually use it whenever they wanted for as long as they wanted.

[bananapeel23]

Is it possible that Ferrari has a lot of ICE power on tap, given they claim to have used a single PU for at least 14 race distances, and potentially later on for all of pre-season testing? 14 race distances is more than the lifetime of a 2025 engine, and if they used it for all of pre-season testing, it would be something like 18 race distances. 18 race distances with an engine anywhere near peak performance would be ridiculously reliable. Meanwhile the Mercedes powered teams appear to all have gone through several PUs, or at least Mercedes did, and that is supposedly with a massively detuned engine.

So is it possible that the Ferrari reliability indicates a very detuned engine that they may match, or at least be closer to the Mercedes PU? Or can you not compromise reliability for more power as much as I think?

[Badger]

Is it possible that Ferrari has a lot of ICE power on tap, given they claim to have used a single PU for at least 14 race distances, and potentially later on for all of pre-season testing? 14 race distances is more than the lifetime of a 2025 engine, and if they used it for all of pre-season testing, it would be something like 18 race distances. 18 race distances with an engine anywhere near peak performance would be ridiculously reliable. Meanwhile the Mercedes powered teams appear to all have gone through several PUs, or at least Mercedes did, and that is supposedly with a massively detuned engine.

So is it possible that the Ferrari reliability indicates a very detuned engine that they may match, or at least be closer to the Mercedes PU? Or can you not compromise reliability for more power as much as I think?

Every engine does more distance than what it is rated for in terms of races. You have three hours of practice, quali, sprints, etc. Not to mention they wouldn't be running the engine in its proper race mode for a lot of that testing time.

[bananapeel23]

Is it possible that Ferrari has a lot of ICE power on tap, given they claim to have used a single PU for at least 14 race distances, and potentially later on for all of pre-season testing? 14 race distances is more than the lifetime of a 2025 engine, and if they used it for all of pre-season testing, it would be something like 18 race distances. 18 race distances with an engine anywhere near peak performance would be ridiculously reliable. Meanwhile the Mercedes powered teams appear to all have gone through several PUs, or at least Mercedes did, and that is supposedly with a massively detuned engine.

So is it possible that the Ferrari reliability indicates a very detuned engine that they may match, or at least be closer to the Mercedes PU? Or can you not compromise reliability for more power as much as I think?

Every engine does more distance than what it is rated for in terms of races. You have three hours of practice, quali, sprints, etc. Not to mention they wouldn't be running the engine in its proper race mode for a lot of that testing time.

Yeah, I'm well aware. I'm just saying that the distance covered is massive for a new engine. Mercedes appear to have had significantly more PU reliability issues than Ferrari, despite allegedly running an even more detuned engine than Ferrari are. I'm just saying that the seemingly bulletproof engine could indicate that it is running further from its peak potential than we think, while Mercedes might be struggling to actually unlock all of the power they have available due to poor reliability.

[Seanspeed]

I might add, Ham is thinking this type of cars will suit him, while there is a lot more to these new cars he will not handle well... the continuous playing with recharge and battery management will not be his strong side, imho.

Is there some reason you believe Lewis will not handle this aspect well?

[Seanspeed]

should this current management fail, and there is a rest, lewis retires and charles leaves other team, should the new management go for a more no1 and no2 driver instead of oh we have two no1 play? sometime i can see why red bull gets it right with strategies and stuff since they practically only focus on max..

Max's teammates are never close enough to him for Red Bull to have to make tough strategy choices.

And if Ferrari fails enough for Leclerc to want to leave, it will almost certainly be because the car isn't good enough. Changing how they treat drivers will not do anything about that.

Just overall, having a clear no.1 and no.2 distinction in a team only makes sense when there's such a clear performance gap between teammates that you'd be silly to do anything else. Otherwise, preference should only be made situationally.

[bluechris]

I think even if the car is better with the new rules, there is too much clicks on buttons and different things you can do in each lap that will make old drivers to need extra time to adjust.

[dans79]

This is from Bahrain day 3, but if the data is good, Lewis sure looks happy late breaking in this car.

[f1Follower]

The new rear wing needs to be there in Jeddah as it's the first power circuit