Ferrari are set to check a key rear suspension improve throughout a filming day at Mugello.
A brand new rear suspension design will debut when Ferrari’s SF-25 hits the Mugello circuit on Wednesday earlier than being unleashed on the upcoming Belgian Grand Prix.
It comes as Ferrari look to treatment the ride-height points which have plagued their 2025 challenger and supply drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc with larger confidence. Ferrari hope the improve shall be an answer to the largest weak point of the SF-25.
Early simulation outcomes had been reportedly optimistic, with the mixture of the rear suspension and up to date flooring replace estimated to be value round a tenth of a second in lap time.
Ferrari will use the filming day – which is restricted to 200km of operating – to verify the information in a real-world setting and provides Hamilton and Leclerc a primary really feel of the replace.
A substantial flooring improve launched on the Austrian Grand Prix has boosted Ferrari’s efficiency on the final two races.
Ferrari loved their strongest weekend of the season thus far in Austria, whereas Hamilton and Leclerc had been in rivalry for pole place on the British Grand Prix till late errors on their ultimate Q3 laps.
It has been a depressing 2025 marketing campaign thus far for Ferrari, who’re winless throughout the primary 12 rounds, however the current replace push has left the crew hopeful they’ll have a stronger second half of the yr.
Ferrari’s final hope of salvaging F1 2025 possibilities
Ferrari’s rear suspension improve at Spa is predicted to be their final replace of the season earlier than the crew switches full focus onto the event of their 2026 challenger and F1’s guidelines reset.
“We’ve acquired one improve to come back in Spa for Ferrari, and after that, that’s it for the yr. They don’t seem to be going to deliver any extra,” David Croft stated on the Sky Sports activities F1 podcast.
“Can they kind out the rear of the automotive the place the damper hasn’t having the ability to damp in the way in which that it desires to as a result of they’ve moved the cockpit and they’re simply cramped for area on the again. That has been affecting them proper from the beginning of the season.
“If that redesign and the ground is working, then we’ll see, in the event that they get the arrange and the technique proper, some higher performances within the second half [of the season].”
Ferrari sit second within the constructors’ championship, 238 factors adrift of McLaren, and 12 away from Mercedes.
