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Err we just witnessed 3 days of testing where you are supposed to find the limits of the machineMacklaren wrote: ↑28 Feb 2025, 18:27Last year at Merc HAM was often subject to extreme setup testing which many thought was the team trying to sabotage him. However, seems like that may be his preferred method being carried over to Ferrari? In any case, seems like something def went wrong with the race sim. Maybe his times were bad because of whatever problem caused them to end running early?
Honestly, I think it’s too preliminary a phase, also because the conditions here in Bahrain for once were so extreme that it becomes difficult to have a clear picture of the situation . If we take it session by session, the situation changes a lot, as well as from day to day. Then it depends on the fuel load, clearly we know ours, but we don’t know the others’ and so it becomes very difficult to interpret everything. We are concentrating on ourselves, we had said the same thing even before coming to Bahrain. We have to stay focused on what we are doing and on the new balance , our numbers and not think about the others. Then we will see how it goes .
We have opened a new door for development , because after a couple of years there was a need to differentiate something and I think everyone has done it a bit. So far it's working well. I'm not talking in terms of results, but numbers . Everything is going in the right direction, but honestly it's always too early after the Bahrain test. If we look at the hierarchy of previous years, that hierarchy we saw here was not the same as the qualifying held a week later in the same conditions .”
https://autoracer.it/it/vasseur-ferrari ... st-bahrainVasseur is satisfied with both Hamilton’s progress and the car’s responses, the only aspects on which he wants to evaluate what he saw in these tests at the moment: “ Honestly, he did a good job, but we have no idea of the pace. As I said, we know the fuel level we have in the car, we know the engine mapping, but we don’t know what the others did. You can speculate, you can make a lot of conjectures , but if we look at the first session, if I’m not mistaken, Verstappen was a second faster than the previous year, then things changed, so you can only speculate and we have to focus on ourselves. The numbers we found are the same as we expected . So if that’s the case, I trust the guys, the good feelings we have about the car .”
I doubt we will see any "B-specs" from teams this season. It's just too expensive when nothing carries through to 2026. Besides, SF-25 is already a thoroughly upgraded car from SF-24. I can't see anything major arriving until later in the season, not before round 1.
The car's behaviour didn't look too pleasant for both drivers today. The fact that Hamilton had to literally stop his programme due to the extreme degradation is disappointing. On top of the rain the other day, it's not good that he didn't get the maximum running possible. 
The next two weeks need to be focused on finding that window and investigating the possible ways of keeping the car close to it. 
In the end, #Leclerc's words confirm what we were saying yesterday. The #SF25 definitely has potential to unlock, and they are seeing the expected levels of downforce. However, what is currently missing is balance. This is evident in the rear, which does not follow properly and struggles with traction, while the front has become almost too precise and reactive. The car is not well-balanced between the axles, and this greatly affects the driving.
There is work to be done to find the right setup and extract the car’s potential, which is likely high, as whenever they manage to achieve moments of balance, the performance is immediately excellent. So, let’s see if they can sort it out and how they will do it.
Between a car with a weak rear and one with a weak front by design, personally, I would choose the weak rear, because I believe it is easier to correct compared to a front end that simply refuses to turn. Let’s see how #Ferrari adjusts things for Melbourne.
very curious to what it could beSoulPancake13 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2025, 20:09In Ferrari's report for the day, they said they found an anomaly in Lewis's telemetry and ended the day early as a precaution.
