A 3rd of the 2025 System 1 season’s Grands Prix have now been contested, and the present championship is experiencing its essential part. This can be a essential interval for the season’s verdicts but additionally for laying the groundwork for the long run. In Ferrari’s case, these weeks are decisive for the selection to be made: whether or not to proceed believing within the SF-25 and its as-yet-unrealized potential or to start specializing in 2026. With this in thoughts, the upcoming rounds, similar to Spain and others, can be decisive in understanding the destiny of the Italian group and its tough 2025. And exactly to place these difficulties behind them, plainly the GeS engineers wish to convey a brand new rear suspension to the monitor originally of summer season: a component that ought to remedy a part of the challenge’s issues, serving to to unlock the touted potential, which may solely emerge with a mechanical configuration that the present suspension isn’t capable of assure.
Goodbye issues?
On nearer inspection, past the dearth of pace, reliability issues with the ability unit have additionally raised alarm bells at Ferrari, each on the Prancing Horse’s automotive and on buyer groups. As we solely reported over the Jeddah weekend, the Scuderia’s engine specialists determined to switch Lewis Hamilton’s and Charles Leclerc ’s PUs as a precaution after seeing unsettling information, bringing ahead the scheduled change in Miami. And it was in Florida that Ferrari’s clients, similar to Haas and Stake, recorded double retirements because of structural failures of energy unit elements (for Bortoleto a problem with gas provide), much like what occurred to Ocon at Imola. And it was at Imola that we acquired affirmation of those points even from a group member who, when requested whether or not he was calm about engine longevity, didn’t profess calm in any respect, preferring as a substitute to depend on hope.
Between hope and (non) solutions…
Furthermore, as I solely reported, at Ferrari they’ve determined to scale back engine mileage to safeguard reliability whereas, if doable, remedying the issues. A transfer that, nevertheless, shouldn’t have an effect on engine energy however that might lead the Rossa and its clients to take penalties by yr’s finish, failing to complete 2025 with solely the 4 models allowed by the FIA. A brand new concern, subsequently, that Fréd Vasseur’s sporting administration should take care of.
Though, when particularly questioned on the matter, the pinnacle of Sporting Administration most popular (as his function calls for) to present evasive solutions, selecting as a substitute to touch upon different groups’ selections or talking of selections aimed toward pursuing most efficiency, slightly than explaining what is going on in home.
“Concerning the ability unit we made a change in Jeddah, whereas I feel Honda has already made two or three. I wouldn’t listen, since they talked in regards to the fifth race, to the occasions during which the models are launched: these are selections made based mostly on the place one desires to be extra aggressive and obtain most efficiency.”
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