2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[MattLightBlue]

The biggest question for me is why did Charles learn about the plank only in the race? What did team (and Charles too) do in practice? What about feedback? How did this happen?

It happens often in the last stint, especially for Charles. The only difference is that this time he was actually fighting for P1/P2, so everyone noticed.

[LM10]

Leclerc:

In the car, I didn’t have all the information; now I have them. We had a chassis problem from lap 40 onwards. From that moment on, I was just a passenger; there was nothing to do. There was a lot of frustration in the car—I thought it was coming from another decision that had been made.

The disappointment and frustration remain because we have a real chance to win this year, and today was very probably that chance. Even though we had a bit more degradation than the McLaren cars, the pace was there in the first stint, in the second stint, and up until around lap 40. I’m really disappointed, but these are racing days. Now that I understand a bit more about what happened behind the scenes, these are things you simply cannot predict.

[ScuderiaLeo]

The biggest question for me is why did Charles learn about the plank only in the race? What did team (and Charles too) do in practice? What about feedback? How did this happen?

It's pretty common this season for their pace to fall off in the last stint.

It's just today's loss was very extreme (2 seconds) usually it's only a few tenths.

[Autobahn303]

Leclerc:

In the car, I didn’t have all the information; now I have them. We had a chassis problem from lap 40 onwards. From that moment on, I was just a passenger; there was nothing to do. There was a lot of frustration in the car—I thought it was coming from another decision that had been made.

The disappointment and frustration remain because we have a real chance to win this year, and today was very probably that chance. Even though we had a bit more degradation than the McLaren cars, the pace was there in the first stint, in the second stint, and up until around lap 40. I’m really disappointed, but these are racing days. Now that I understand a bit more about what happened behind the scenes, these are things you simply cannot predict.

Damn, I'm so curious.

I hope more information will surface soon.

[GrizzleBoy]

Charles will never sell Ferrari out. He has Ferrari in his veins and in his heart. If there is a narrative, he will spin it for the team. Especially if someone whispers in his ear that its the plank.

[yooogurt]

It's pretty common this season for their pace to fall off in the last stint.

It's just today's loss was very extreme (2 seconds) usually it's only a few tenths.

In Australia they figured it out on friday, but not at this grand prix? How does that work? Something went wrong, and team miss it and Charles had something to do with it too for sure.Why did he only realize this in the race? On Saturday everyone drives medium since friday which has 12-14 laps from the start.

[Waz]

Is this a possible reason they're under fueling quite aggressively too? Save on plank wear?

Wasn't the new suspension supposed to fix that issue quite specifically?

[catent]

Charles will never sell Ferrari out. He has Ferrari in his veins and in his heart. If there is a narrative, he will spin it for the team. Especially if someone whispers in his ear that its the plank.

That's why Leclerc was absolutely lambasting the team via radio messages that he knows will be publicly aired, right, because he would never throw the team under the bus, and will lie to protect them? And therefore the chassis issue - which Leclerc has confirmed - must be a lie to cover for a plank issue?

Laughable.

[McLarenHonda]

Anyone else think Lewis won’t make it into 2026?

[woocasz]

He is protecting the team. 100%
2 seconds slower with 40Kg of fuel less. Only with Ferrari.
Ferrari spent half a year developing a new suspension, only to find out that it doesn't work...
They are so bad. it is painful to watch.

[yooogurt]

Ferrari spent half a year developing a new suspension, only to find out that it doesn't work...
They are so bad. it is painful to watch.

Why did the suspension work in the Spa then?

[Chuckjr]

Anyone else think Lewis won’t make it into 2026?

In my opinion…

Not with the mindset he has been revealing for the weekend. It’s a bad example, and it embarrasses Ferrari and the team to have someone so thin skinned and self-degrading as a driver. Imagine an NFL quarterback talking like this. Smh.

He thought he was better than he was when he signed (tho some here saw it), and earlier someone mentioned his recent white papers he sent to Ferrari only serves to render his inflated image of himself which is a by product of having fastest car privileges for most of his career. Such drivers begin to think it’s them, when it’s obviously not. He really thinks he is that good. Smh. Furthermore, he put himself into this position by displacing CS, which was shameful. He deserves whatever befalls him.

[Fakepivot]

well happy summer break, I really hope Lewis comes back stronger, is supposed to be a leader. imagine how hard Fred job is managing two overly emotional driver. weather it works or not idk but, in the end, they need to relax a little, look at George, Oscar, I know Lando can be bit self-beating, but he is not this emotional during race etc. so is max even on worst result he is lot colder. so are any other driver honestly. I don't know if this is even a problem like how Charles is confrontational about almost every radio message etc. it's been like this for some time, I don't hear this much confrontation from other team.

[LM10]

He is protecting the team. 100%
2 seconds slower with 40Kg of fuel less. Only with Ferrari.
Ferrari spent half a year developing a new suspension, only to find out that it doesn't work...
They are so bad. it is painful to watch.

You mean like Mercedes who went back to their previous suspension and found pace again?

Do you really think that Ferrari needed a filming day, a whole weekend at Spa, three practice sessions at the Hungaroring and half a race distance to suddenly find out that their suspension doesn’t work?

[IntrinsicVoid]

People who tend to go over things like that and giving chance after chance come up like this. You can soak a sponge till it starts leaking, that’s Leclerc.