Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc have each pushed the brand new Ferrari SF-25 for the primary time throughout a shakedown on the group’s Fiorano check monitor.
The 2025 livery was revealed alongside the opposite 9 groups ultimately night time’s F1 75 Stay occasion in London, however each drivers shortly returned to Maranello forward of the primary run for the brand new automobile this morning. Leclerc was first out on monitor in Italy earlier than handing over to Hamilton, as Ferrari confirmed off a refreshed design that’s meant to supply larger improvement alternative by means of the season.
A swap from push rod to drag rod entrance suspension is the obvious seen change to the entrance of the automobile and is designed to extend the scope of aerodynamic improvement out there to the group, after it mentioned it felt it reached a ceiling with final 12 months’s resolution.
“The SF-25 is an evolution of the SF-24, which gave us a wonderful place to begin to work from,” chassis technical director Loic Serra mentioned. “Having mentioned that, we have now labored arduous, altering 99% of the automobile, evolving its structure to maximise efficiency. The pull rod entrance suspension is barely the obvious of many important modifications.
“We are able to count on the approaching season to be very carefully contested, with outcomes determined by thousandths of a second. We’re all set to present it our greatest shot to seek out these positive factors, even the marginal ones, that may make the distinction. We’re wanting ahead to being aggressive proper from the very first race.”
Though group principal Fred Vasseur has made clear the conceptual choices have been made earlier than Serra’s arrival from Mercedes, the brand new technical chief additionally insists it’s not a danger to make substantial modifications, regardless of Ferrari scoring probably the most factors of any group — and Leclerc probably the most of any driver — from the summer season break onwards final 12 months.
“The principle idea of the SF-25 is absolutely about discovering some house to spice up the aerodynamic improvement and the event typically. The SF-24 completed fairly sturdy, but it surely was changing into increasingly troublesome to develop and discover efficiency,” he mentioned. “So, we needed to form of discover house to spice up the event fee.
“The automobile is extra of a continuity of the earlier automobile. We’ve modified many of the components on the automobile, however the principle efficiency idea stays the identical. So, I really don’t count on a studying curve that’s steeper than final 12 months.
“Hopefully, the event fee will probably be boosted in comparison with what it was finish of final season. However I’m not anticipating essentially to function the automobile in a really completely different place.”
