2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[CHT]

if you look at FP2, Ferrari had a particularly strong spark in turn 6, as well as in turns 11-12, they clearly drove lower in FP2, in FP3 Ferrari lifted the car and even in qualifying Leclerc showed a speed of 242 in turn 6, in turn 14 - 241 are the best indicators among all cars, I think the basic downforce of the car is excellent, the only question is why and why did they lift car on Saturday

None of FP potential we saw was repeat during the race and Ferrari was struggling to overtake Albon, while LH was unable to defend Oscar in the final lap. If SF-25 is not quick enough Ferrari may have difficulties to keep LH motivated.

Ferrari may also be missing Sainz's input on race strategy.

[trinidefender]

Has there been any confirmation as to why the car was lifted? So far I’ve heard the gearbox theory and also the plank theory that they were risking too much wear at the lower ride height.

Something makes me think it’s not the plank wear issue because knowing it was going to be a wet race the intermediate and wet tyres have a slightly larger diameter iirc lifting the car and reducing plank wear. Something isn’t adding up

[Luscion]

Has there been any confirmation as to why the car was lifted? So far I’ve heard the gearbox theory and also the plank theory that they were risking too much wear at the lower ride height.

Something makes me think it’s not the plank wear issue because knowing it was going to be a wet race the intermediate and wet tyres have a slightly larger diameter iirc lifting the car and reducing plank wear. Something isn’t adding up

So far only people speculating, Federico Albano saying it could be a possibilty and Carlo Vanzini who is a sky italia commentator saying it was for plank wear. No mention from other journalists or news sources and apparently there are other journalists who were denying Carlo's claims according to reddit. SmilexTech, whos a co founder of Autoracer was asked about it about and didnt seem to know anything about the plank wear stuff. Hoping we get more info today or in a few days

[venkyhere]

Lewis could not overtake but this because of the current formula and tyres. It was not going to be possible againt a Williams. He made a few attemps. His quality of being solid also shone through.

Really ? I thought Lewis did very poorly w.r.t 'race craft', ie positioning his car optimally to defend against two 'skillful overtakes' by LeClerc and Piastri. Positioning the car defensively has nothing to do with learning the buttons on the wheel or having effective communication with the pitwall. Two possible reasons :
- too busy keeping the car stable that he didn't have the 'spare processing power' in his mind to bother about racecraft
OR
- lost his edge, which he can't be really blamed for (age), no matter how motivated he is.

None of FP potential we saw was repeat during the race and Ferrari was struggling to overtake Albon, while LH was unable to defend Oscar in the final lap. If SF-25 is not quick enough Ferrari may have difficulties to keep LH motivated.

LH struggling to overtake Albon or ineffective in defending from PIastri has less to do with the car and more to do with the driver. It isn't the job of Ferrari to keep LH motivated. It's his job to keep himself motivated - this whole narrative of 'LH has done a favour to Ferrari' is completely wrong ; unless Elkaan comes out in public and says that they signed him mainly for the branding/marketing and the jackets/caps sales.

[Chuckjr]

I think in some ways he thought the transition would not be this dire, but is certainly that. The chassis is unpredictable, they went with an entirely new game plan on the last year of the regs, and he is still figuring the steering wheel gadgets and all the different terminologies Ferrari uses. It's like learning a new language, and he is scrambling, and he is 40. It will take him the better part of the year just to get all the tech and coms worked out.