2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[CouncilorIrissa]

So it looks like the car's optimal operating window is at the ride height that causes excessive plank wear.
Yeah, it's over.

[IntrinsicVoid]

Probably hoping the new asphalt won’t be as problematic. Complete disaster, out of words.

[j_ste]

I miss the off season hype.

[Venturiation]

these are the posts from Australia

2013, McLaren switch from push rod to pull rod suspension and looked rather good in testing. Come the first race and they were pretty terrible (and was all season).

What happened Jenson?
‘We fitted a suspension component the wrong way round in testing so the car ran lower, giving more downforce but it would have worn the plank away and made the car illegal during the race’.

AutoRacer reported the leading paddock rumor for why Ferrari's performance dropped is the plank wear. .

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comme ... g_the_car/

[K1Plus]

these are the posts from Australia

2013, McLaren switch from push rod to pull rod suspension and looked rather good in testing. Come the first race and they were pretty terrible (and was all season).

What happened Jenson?
‘We fitted a suspension component the wrong way round in testing so the car ran lower, giving more downforce but it would have worn the plank away and made the car illegal during the race’.

AutoRacer reported the leading paddock rumor for why Ferrari's performance dropped is the plank wear. .

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comme ... g_the_car/

Yeah it's over.
So I guess they went Mercedes 2022 in chase of ultimate performance, but even further, and it knocked off their head.

[SB15]

I knew it. I honestly knew it.

Tracks like Canada, Singapore and Austin doesn’t allow Ferrari to run the car low enough because of the bumps. China I knew after Sprint Qualifying, Ferrari needs to raise the ride height because that car was running super low compared to other teams, which means, 99% of the SF25 performance data was due to it being super low to the ground.

Even in the off season, during the debut rear of the car looked nearly on the road.

Going double pull-rod was a big gamble and this race in China proved, they should’ve went Push-Rod on the rear instead.

[OverheatedTurbo]

I knew it. I honestly knew it.

Tracks like Canada, Singapore and Austin doesn’t allow Ferrari to run the car low enough because of the bumps. China I knew after Sprint Qualifying, Ferrari needs to raise the ride height because that car was running super low compared to other teams, which means, 99% of the SF25 performance data was due to it being super low to the ground.

Even in the off season, during the debut rear of the car looked nearly on the road.

Going double pull-rod was a big gamble and this race in China proved, they should’ve went Push-Rod on the rear instead.

I think they should have kept the SF-24 suspension layout. It was a big gamble to change it on the last year of the regs

[.Bole]

Classic ferrari. As i said more than a week ago, cancel this season as lat 20 years and focus on next

Not to mention most of us speaking against changing suspension in last year. But great job as always in maranello

[ScuderiaLeo]

To be fair if they didn't change things people would've complained they weren't being adventurous enough.

But I really thought the team was better than this. The SF-24 had some weaknesses but it was a strong car. The strategy was good last season. How did we fall so far during the break? It's not just the car being bad, it seems like the entire team is worse off than last season.

[Venturiation]

To be fair if they didn't change things people would've complained they weren't being adventurous enough.

But I really thought the team was better than this. The SF-24 had some weaknesses but it was a strong car. The strategy was good last season. How did we fall so far during the break? It's not just the car being bad, it seems like the entire team is worse off than last season.

they should have changed it to a model that everyone uses, they are the only car on the grid with that suspension layout

[ScuderiaLeo]

It's official, Leclerc is DSQed.

According to the document it was a "genuine error" by Ferrari. Hilarious.

[Emag]

There is a report for Lewis too.

[Mansell89]

If it is about plank wear not being legal at their optimum ride height, that’s a bad setback.

To those of you much more technically minded than I, is it even possible to change a suspension philosophy mid-season or is it a case of it just taking too long and not worth it in the final year of regs?

[FittingMechanics]

this means the rumors about australia plank problems where true, and this will happen every race if they don't lift the car

It would also explain why the sprint went well. It is much shorter, plank doesn't have time to wear out so you can run lower and then change the setup for the race.

Explains perfectly better pace in SQ and Sprint and then major issues in the race.

[bauc]

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The first stewards' decision is in and it's as expected, Charles Leclerc has been thrown out from the #ChineseGP classification for his car being underweight.
"There are no mitigating circumstances and [Ferrari] confirmed it was a genuine error."