Throughout the latest Christmas lunch, Ferrari crew principal Fred Vasseur formally introduced the presentation and shakedown date for the Maranello crew’s 2025 System 1 automotive, which is able to happen on Wednesday, February 19, in Maranello. In different phrases, the day after the key season launch occasion, during which all ten groups, their respective Crew Principals, drivers, and worldwide company will take part to have fun the seventy fifth anniversary of the World Championship. It is very important observe that this occasion will solely current the liveries of the varied groups, whereas for the brand new vehicles, anybody who needs will have the ability to maintain their very own devoted occasion, because the Maranello crew will do.
Wanting again on the 2024 System 1 championship, Ferrari has skilled a season with three faces. The primary half was clearly because the second power, with the objective of catching up with Crimson Bull. The center half was extra sophisticated, with Ferrari dropping to 3rd and even fourth on observe after the introduction of the problematic ground on the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain, adopted by a robust ultimate a part of the season, particularly from the Italian Grand Prix at Monza onwards, the place they have been capable of compete for the highest spot at sure occasions. “I believe the method this yr was excellent. Even after we encountered difficulties in July, the crew’s response was excellent. We by no means blamed anybody or a division, however we labored collectively to seek out options throughout totally different teams, and it positively went nicely,” mentioned Frederic Vasseur to the press current on the Christmas lunch in Maranello – “In fact, it could have been higher to not have issues, however I believe the response was good, and that’s what we count on for the long run if we wish to combat for the championship.”
After a interval of nice understanding, throughout which Charles Leclerc was usually sacrificed to assemble helpful knowledge for manufacturing facility evaluation on unexpected issues launched with the aerodynamic replace package deal dropped at Barcelona, the SF-24 single-seater turned aggressive once more. “I used to be very happy with the crew’s response this yr as a result of a constructive level of our season for me was after we struggled between the tip of June and early July and have been capable of react rapidly, then exhibiting good tempo each within the race in Budapest and in Spa,” Frederic Vasseur mentioned. It’s value noting that in Hungary, the ‘developed ground’ debuted, with the primary makeshift corrections made by way 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. “The sort of response might be essential for subsequent yr. It’s true that now when growing the automotive, 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 scenario 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 automotive
The Italian crew expects rather a lot from the 2025 automotive, because it has already been emphasised a number of instances, having invested many technical assets and establishing a very new challenge that sees adjustments in all the key areas of the automotive: 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 challenge very nicely. For that reason, the 2025 automotive might be utterly new,” introduced Fred Vasseur throughout the Christmas lunch in Maranello.
A calculated danger, in line with the crew principal of the Italian crew, though with the present rules, “generally you get the sensation that you’re not taking dangers, however then on observe you understand that you just completely have been.” There might be vital adjustments to the entrance, with the suspension switching to a pull-rod configuration, following the philosophy already utilized by McLaren and Crimson Bull. Together with the numerous mechanical enhancements, the aerodynamic surfaces of the ground have undergone a significant redesign, as reported by the Italian web site AutoRacer and it will likely be fairly totally different from the primary spec 25 iteration seen on observe beginning in Las Vegas. Surprisingly, in comparison with the automotive that received 5 of the 24 races throughout the just lately concluded season, even 99% of the components will change, as Vasseur acknowledged that the 2025 Ferrari will share “lower than 1% of the present automotive,” marking what is really a special challenge designed to attempt to win a minimum of one of many two out there world championships.
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