2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[Xyz22]

Comments from Leclerc

It’s great to be back on track. The whole team has put in a lot of effort, so it’s exciting to finally be able to push the car. It’s always good to have a quiet session, without any nasty surprises disrupting the schedule.

It is too early to draw conclusions about our performance. We will evaluate today's data and use the lessons from tonight when we start work again tomorrow.

Clearly there isn't much to say

Exact same statement as last year more or less.

[organic]

Vasseur pr controlling their drivers haha

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https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/formula1/ ... ting-day-1

Lewis Interview

“It's too early to really understand performance, but everything feels good and as a team we're working on the best way to optimise each run.”

“There's more to do over the next few days to get through our programme and understand the car to the best of our ability, but right now I'm looking forward to getting out there again tomorrow.”

“Testing is always exciting. It's the first time you get to see what everyone has been developing and can start to get a feel for your own car and the year ahead. Being here with Scuderia Ferrari HP and in the SF-25 for the first time is an incredible feeling.”

“Our focus right now is on experimenting with different things, gathering as much data as possible and getting familiar with the car, and we've already learned a lot.”

Morning. Lewis was first out on track, the car fitted with aero rakes for the first few laps to take measurements, while running the C2 tyre. On today’s menu, a thorough mapping to get an in-depth picture of the whole car, as well as checking the correlation between the on-track data and that gathered in the simulator over the past few months. Hamilton also ran the C3 tyre with different aero configurations and fuel loads, as well as doing some practice starts and pit stops. He completed 70 laps (379 kilometres) with a best time of 1’31”834, set on the C3s.

Afternoon. During the lunch break, the cockpit settings were changed to suit Charles, who took to the Sakhir track shortly after 15h00. He ran an almost identical programme to his team-mate, starting on the C2 tyres before switching to C3, continuing with the mapping work and getting to grips with the SF-25, but with no thought of performance. He also ran various fuel loads, as the team gathered data from several areas of the car, ending the day with some practice starts. The only hold up to proceedings was down to a general power failure that affected the whole circuit shortly after 17h00, which meant track activity was halted for almost an hour. The decision was therefore taken by the FIA and the teams to extend the session by an hour, with the chequered flag at 20h00, to make up for the time lost. The Monegasque’s best time, from a total of 71 laps (384 kilometres) was a 1'30"878, set on C3 tyres.

[Xyz22]

Doesn't mean much but here is the comp between the SF 25 and SF 24 fastest lap (both on C3 tyres and first day of testing 25 / 24)



This could be a bit more useful, first lap of a mini run on high fuel



Huge improvement in the first corner and in the fast one.

[ScuderiaLeo]

Well these 2 look happy

[Fer.Fan]

SF-25 appears to bee difficult to drive.

[dialtone]

Well these 2 look happy

This is all a diversion tactic, they know they are being examined for their body languagie and are acting accordingly.

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[dialtone]

SF-25 appears to bee difficult to drive.

There doesn't seem to be anything related to that in this video.

[Luscion]

SF-25 appears to bee difficult to drive.

this video doesnt provide anything, its just still photos with AI voiced over it

[Xyz22]

Leclerc program today was very similar to what Sainz did the first day last year.

[SoulPancake13]

Anyone saying the car was hard to drive without recognizing there was 100kg of fuel in the car which will always make the car less responsive, slower, etc., is being dishonest. The truth is even on the fast lap there was a decent amount of fuel likely onboard judging from the onboard.

[Seanspeed]

Anyone saying the car was hard to drive without recognizing there was 100kg of fuel in the car which will always make the car less responsive, slower, etc., is being dishonest. The truth is even on the fast lap there was a decent amount of fuel likely onboard judging from the onboard.

It's not being 'dishonest' to recognize that on similar enough low fuel runs, the Ferrari was certainly lacking responsiveness in a few certain corners compared to the likes of Mclaren. You can speculate that this is coming from higher fuel than others, but that's really just a pure guess.

There's also plenty of things it could be, whether it's the car not being as dialed in yet, or that Leclerc did his fastest lap quite a bit before others did their bests, where conditions were different and whatnot. Maybe the tires weren't brand spanking new? Hard to say.

But it's still entirely reasonable to point out that something the car struggled with last year was still there in the similar-enough run by Ferrari compared to Mclaren. Maybe it's a sign of things to come, maybe it's not. Nobody is concluding anything. Just observing.

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Keep an eye on the car under breaking LEC was loosing some time there which is very unusual but hopefully it was the fuel load

[SoulPancake13]

Anyone saying the car was hard to drive without recognizing there was 100kg of fuel in the car which will always make the car less responsive, slower, etc., is being dishonest. The truth is even on the fast lap there was a decent amount of fuel likely onboard judging from the onboard.

It's not being 'dishonest' to recognize that on similar enough low fuel runs, the Ferrari was certainly lacking responsiveness in a few certain corners compared to the likes of Mclaren. You can speculate that this is coming from higher fuel than others, but that's really just a pure guess.

There's also plenty of things it could be, whether it's the car not being as dialed in yet, or that Leclerc did his fastest lap quite a bit before others did their bests, where conditions were different and whatnot. Maybe the tires weren't brand spanking new? Hard to say.

But it's still entirely reasonable to point out that something the car struggled with last year was still there in the similar-enough run by Ferrari compared to Mclaren. Maybe it's a sign of things to come, maybe it's not. Nobody is concluding anything. Just observing.

Not what I was talking about anyways... I meant the full fuel runs where it's obvious that having 100kg of fuel in the car will make it look less planted than teams doing 2nd or 3rd stint race sims lol. Either way, I don't think comparisons can even be made today because Ferrari just did a totally different run plan to the other top teams, so I reject the notion that it is a similar-enough run. Charles set his time 2 hours before the others did their qualy sims.

[jambuka]

Helmut Marko thinks Mercedes and McLaren were stronger on race sim than Ferrari.