The ultimate days of the 2024 season are already a preview of what we’ll see in 2025. The groups are busy amassing and analyzing information from the final races and post-Abu Dhabi exams. For a lot of, that is the primary return to base after the Las Vegas, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi triple header, so there’s nonetheless a major quantity of labor to course of. At Ferrari, alongside the technical aspect, there may be additionally an emotional side with Carlos Sainz’s final days as a Ferrari driver, which can mark a special occasion for him.
Ferrari brings father and son collectively on observe at Fiorano. A last farewell in Maranello for Sainz.
Frederic Vasseur’s staff is making ready to welcome Lewis Hamilton to Maranello, kicking off a much-anticipated partnership that, based mostly on the tip of the season, will definitely see the Scuderia struggle for the world title in 2025. That is the want and thought that Carlos Sainz, about to go away Maranello for the final time, expressed in his farewell message to the staff in Abu Dhabi: “You’re a staff able to struggle for the championship. I hope to see Charles and also you as champions subsequent yr, and I’ll be cheering for you from Williams,” stated the emotional Spaniard in entrance of all the staff at Yas Marina.
Nonetheless, the feelings didn’t finish in Abu Dhabi, as Ferrari organized a special occasion for the Sainz household on Tuesday; a technique to give one final special occasion not just for their driver but in addition for his household. At Fiorano, the Ferrari F1-75 will take to the observe with Carlos Sainz Sr, the rally legend and father of the Spaniard who has been with Ferrari in recent times, on the wheel. He might be joined by his son. That is undoubtedly a particular and emotional occasion, as they may share just a few laps on the historic Ferrari take a look at observe, adopted by a go to to the manufacturing facility to say goodbye to all the workers in Maranello who’ve labored aspect by aspect with Carlos Sainz Jr over the previous 4 years, appreciating his suggestions, professionalism, and the individual he has all the time been extremely revered and valued inside the staff. The information has been confirmed by F1 specialists Paolo D’Alessandro and Giuliano Duchessa for autoracer.it.
These would be the last days of the 2024 season for Ferrari as effectively. The final working day of the yr on the Scuderia is anticipated to be on Thursday. Frederic Vasseur will bid farewell to the women and men working at Maranello, giving them time without work to spend with their households and resuming work within the new yr, making ready for 2025. The time will come for the primary indications on the brand new automobile, which, in response to the French Group Principal, “is exhibiting good outcomes” within the wind tunnel, however everyone seems to be conscious that it is going to be an necessary yr: Lewis Hamilton’s first in Crimson, the final of this technology of automobiles, and, in fact, an necessary yr to proceed the momentum of the season simply ended, the place from Spa onwards, Charles Leclerc and Ferrari would have been topped world champions after incomes extra factors than anybody else.