Through the current Christmas lunch, Ferrari workforce principal Fred Vasseur formally introduced the presentation and shakedown date for the Maranello workforce’s 2025 Formulation 1 automobile, which can happen on Wednesday, February 19, in Maranello. In different phrases, the day after the main season launch occasion, through which all ten groups, their respective Crew Principals, drivers, and worldwide friends will take part to have fun the seventy fifth anniversary of the World Championship. You will need to notice that this occasion will solely current the liveries of the varied groups, whereas for the brand new automobiles, anybody who needs will be capable to maintain their very own devoted occasion, because the Maranello workforce will do.
Wanting again on the 2024 Formulation 1 championship, Ferrari has skilled a season with three faces. The primary half was clearly because the second pressure, with the purpose of catching up with Purple Bull. The center half was extra sophisticated, with Ferrari dropping to 3rd and even fourth on monitor after the introduction of the problematic ground on the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain, adopted by a robust remaining a part of the season, particularly from the Italian Grand Prix at Monza onwards, the place they had been in a position to compete for the highest spot at sure occasions. “I feel the strategy this yr was superb. Even after we encountered difficulties in July, the workforce’s response was superb. We by no means blamed anybody or a division, however we labored collectively to search out options throughout completely different teams, and it positively went effectively,” mentioned Frederic Vasseur to the press current on the Christmas lunch in Maranello – “After all, it might have been higher to not have issues, however I feel the response was good, and that’s what we anticipate for the longer term if we need to struggle for the championship.”
After a interval of nice understanding, throughout which Charles Leclerc was typically sacrificed to assemble helpful information for manufacturing unit evaluation on unexpected issues launched with the aerodynamic replace package deal delivered to Barcelona, the SF-24 single-seater turned aggressive once more. “I used to be very pleased with the workforce’s response this yr as a result of a optimistic level of our season for me was after we struggled between the tip of June and early July and had been in a position to react shortly, then displaying good tempo each within the race in Budapest and in Spa,” Frederic Vasseur mentioned. It’s value noting that in Hungary, the ‘advanced ground’ debuted, with the primary makeshift corrections made by means of Computational Fluid Dynamics evaluation with out spending hours within the wind tunnel, to repair a number of the points encountered with the Montmelo package deal. “Any such response might be essential for subsequent yr. It’s true that now when creating the automobile, generally you are taking dangers when introducing updates, and that’s one thing that has affected everybody, but it surely’s the way you react on this state of affairs that turns into essential, even for subsequent yr,” Fred Vasseur concluded.
Ferrari shock: Fred Vasseur pronounces that lower than 1% of the SF-24 elements have been transferred to the 2025 automobile
The Italian workforce expects lots from the 2025 automobile, because it has already been emphasised a number of instances, having invested many technical assets and establishing a very new mission that sees adjustments in all the main areas of the automobile: from the chassis, to the place of the motive force and the engine, to the mechanics and aerodynamic surfaces. “We’re within the fourth yr of this regulation’s software, and we all know our earlier mission very effectively. For that reason, the 2025 automobile might be utterly new,” introduced Fred Vasseur throughout the Christmas lunch in Maranello.
A calculated threat, based on the workforce principal of the Italian workforce, though with the present laws, “generally you get the sensation that you’re not taking dangers, however then on monitor you understand that you simply completely had been.” There might be important adjustments to the entrance, with the suspension switching to a pull-rod configuration, following the philosophy already utilized by McLaren and Purple Bull. Together with the numerous mechanical enhancements, the aerodynamic surfaces of the ground have undergone a serious redesign, as reported by the Italian web site AutoRacer and it is going to be fairly completely different from the primary spec 25 iteration seen on monitor beginning in Las Vegas. Surprisingly, in comparison with the automobile that gained 5 of the 24 races throughout the just lately concluded season, even 99% of the components will change, as Vasseur said that the 2025 Ferrari will share “lower than 1% of the present automobile,” marking what is really a unique mission designed to attempt to win a minimum of one of many two accessible world championships.
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