Ferrari boss teases "crucial" early upgrades to Lewis Hamilton's F1 2025 car
Ferrari will see how the early races of F1 2025 unfold before making key development decisions about next se𒈔ason.
Ferrari’s early upgrades are set to prove “crucial” to their hopes for the upcoming 2025 F1 season.
Teams are set to face a tricky development dilemma heading into a year which promises to be closer than ever with stable rules, while needing to prioritise reso🍸urce and focus on the major regulation changes coming for 2026.
Next season will see sweeping changes on both the power unit and aerodynamic side of t🎀he cars, and teams have been🐭 able to start work on their 2026 challengers as of 1 January.
Following 🎃a competitive end to 2024, the field is set to converge even more in 2025, leaving teams balancing their development for the drastic 2026 rules reset with not wanting to spurn any potential opportunities this year.
“For sure if we have to develop the c🔯urrent car, it would be the first couple of races,” Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur told media including🀅 mahbx.com.
“And then I think everybody will – I don’t want to say that we will sto🎀p the current car, but we’ll be more foc𒅌used on ’26.
“It means that the first races and the first upgrade that we will bring for the car will be crucialꦉ for the season and for sure we’ll bring something in the early stage into the season.”
Ferrari are set to face a tougher decision than other teams given they are ꧟expecting to be in champಞionship contention, having fallen just short of winning the constructors’ title last term.
F1’s most iconic team have already made significant changes to thꦇeir SF-25 challenger, which has been described as being “99% new” for 2025.
A switchꩲ from a push-rod to pull-rod front suspension is among the biggest redesign aimed at extracting greater performance and development gains for this season.
“If we have to react [to something], we can’t reac❀t after June, for examp꧃le,” Vasseur continued.
“We know that the lead time is quite important for big pa💦rts and probably in the summer time we’ll all be fully focussed on 2026.
“If you have a look at the previous change of regulations at the end of ’21 when you had the fight between Mercedes and🌃 Red Bull, they were able to bring upgrades [to] the last couple of e🌺vents.
“Even if you decide now that ‘we do it like this, like this, like this,’ let’s see after a coupl�❀�e of races in the championship where you are,
“If you are one second behind, it makes no sense to continue to develop. If you are one second in front you can be focussed a little bit on ’26. But I think these two scenarios are not realistic at🔯 all.
“I think it will be the continuity of last year with four teams able to win races and four teams able to win the champio🐻nship.”
What do Ferrari need to become F1 champions again?
ඣA late season surge hel✃ped Ferrari claim runner-up spot, just 14 points behind champions McLaren, as the Italian outfit came agonisingly close to ending their wait for a world championship.
Ferrari’s last constructors’ ൩title came in 2008, with their last drivers’ championship being achieved the year before.
The arrival of seven-time world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc has sparked huge excitement and anticipation for the new campaign, and Vasseur is aware𒅌 of the pressure and expectation🌳 surrounding his team.
“It was already the case in the past that everybody was full of expectation, full of enthusiasm, of passion, I think it’s one of the characteristics of the team🌃 and the country,” Vasseur said.
“But I take it as a positive. It’s very positive energy. The first day at Fiorano, we had thousands of people o🤡n the bridge and honestly this is pushing the team.
“Now with the experience, I know that we have to calm down a little bit the expec🦄tation. It’s not because we have thousands of fans on the bridge that we will be world champion.
“If you want to win races you need🏅 to have a good car and need to improve every single race. It’s not a matter of fans or enthusiasm. But honestly I think last year we managed itꦏ pretty well.
“We were able꧒ able to react to a tough time, in June-July, we were able to come back quickly, to change our approach and react as a team, to work as a team, and this was good momentum for us and good for the 𒀰development of the team. We came back into the fight quickly.
“For sure if we want to 💎be champion, and that is clearly the taꦯrget, we need to improve everywhere and we need to minimise the missed opportunities. We have to do a better job everywhere.”
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