2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[Luscion]

Leclerc saying theres no balance issues with the SF-25, they were just trying different set up directions to understand the car and never optimized it

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2025/03/ ... ce-issues/

[dialtone]

These guys are playing games like they never did before… I have confidence but they sure are playing with me

[deadhead]

- No balance issues
- Perfect correlation with the wind tunnel
- All numbers matching their expectations


0.3 behind McLaren


Checks out

[Seanspeed]

Leclerc saying theres no balance issues with the SF-25, they were just trying different set up directions to understand the car and never optimized it

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2025/03/ ... ce-issues/

He doesn't say there were no balance issues, just that they didn't spend time during the test trying to optimize that part of things, as he seems to think they can fairly easily do that in the simulator. Sounds like he's saying that testing was about assessing the working parameters of the car and trying to figure out where there can be useful avenues for improvement.

I think perhaps here we've gotta realize that 'balance' can be a relative and broad term depending on context. And overall, just going by comments alone, there's really not much to gleam about Ferrari's potential competitiveness or issues. Though that seems to be the same down the whole grid, and no doubt for most any given year.

[Luscion]

Leclerc saying theres no balance issues with the SF-25, they were just trying different set up directions to understand the car and never optimized it

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2025/03/ ... ce-issues/

He doesn't say there were no balance issues, just that they didn't spend time during the test trying to optimize that part of things, as he seems to think they can fairly easily do that in the simulator. Sounds like he's saying that testing was about assessing the working parameters of the car and trying to figure out where there can be useful avenues for improvement.

I think perhaps here we've gotta realize that 'balance' can be a relative and broad term depending on context. And overall, just going by comments alone, there's really not much to gleam about Ferrari's potential competitiveness or issues. Though that seems to be the same down the whole grid, and no doubt for most any given year.

“But to be honest, it’s not like we’ve had an issue during testing with the balance. We haven’t done anything to try and cure the balance issues we’ve had. Because we were just trying different options of set-up."

hes saying the problems people saw in the car wasnt because of an inherent balance issue with the car, its because they were just doing a wide range of setups on the car

[Seanspeed]

Leclerc saying theres no balance issues with the SF-25, they were just trying different set up directions to understand the car and never optimized it

https://www.motorsportweek.com/2025/03/ ... ce-issues/

He doesn't say there were no balance issues, just that they didn't spend time during the test trying to optimize that part of things, as he seems to think they can fairly easily do that in the simulator. Sounds like he's saying that testing was about assessing the working parameters of the car and trying to figure out where there can be useful avenues for improvement.

I think perhaps here we've gotta realize that 'balance' can be a relative and broad term depending on context. And overall, just going by comments alone, there's really not much to gleam about Ferrari's potential competitiveness or issues. Though that seems to be the same down the whole grid, and no doubt for most any given year.

“But to be honest, it’s not like we’ve had an issue during testing with the balance. We haven’t done anything to try and cure the balance issues we’ve had. Because we were just trying different options of set-up."

hes saying the problems people saw in the car wasnt because of an inherent balance issue with the car, its because they were just doing a wide range of setups on the car

You're kind of proving my point that 'balance' can be a nebulous term. He doesn't state clearly what you're suggesting at all, but he absolutely does say they had balance issues. We just dont know exactly what he's expressing overall.