Ferrari closed a disappointing step through the Australian GP

The SF-25 was not competitive, the team did not risk at the time of the last chaparrón, Lewis Hamilton complained about the car and Charles Leclerc barely rescued an eighth place.

Ferrari is always expected to be up, fighting for the triumphs in Formula 1. For something it is the team with perfect presence in all seasons in the category that turns 75 next May, it is the Team with more builders, pilots, with the greatest amount of triumphs, with more fans in the world … is Ferrari, of course. If it is added that for the 2025 exercise he added to his ranks no less than Lewis Hamilton, seven times world champion… No one imagined during the pompous presentation of English in Maranello that, from Australia, where the first date of the calendar was played, the Rossa would take just five points.

Italian cars wandered down the track, without rhythm to fight or with the floor completely wet, neither wet nor dry. Nothing. To top it off, when the last strong chapron arrived, ten turns from the end, with the entry of the security car through the accident of Liam Lawson and Gabriel Bortoleto, nor at that time there was lucidity in those in charge of the strategy to try something different, a heroic: leave one of the two cars outside, with smooth tires. Because the rain, as the radars marked, would last a couple of turns and was the security car on the track. That is, at the time of relaunching, water would no longer fall. But not that. Leclerc and Hamilton passed through Boxes to put the intermediates.

In the end, The Monegasco went to English in a tight maneuver that ended with rubbing (they clearly did not do good). And at the close, the heptacampeón was overcome by Oscar Pisatri. Result: Leclerc was eighth and Hamilton, tenth. Five dots for the Scuderia.

“It was one of the toughest races that I remember. I have no memory of such a complicated balance. I tried to stay on the track with the rain. I learned a lot about the car today, but we will have to work hard, ” said a laconic Hamiltonwho his dream of getting to Ferrari was fulfilled, but the reality of the car gave him a strong slap.

Leclerc, meanwhile, said: “It was difficult, we never had a rhythm to go ahead. I made a mistake, many had them, but I shouldn’t have done mine. In the end I tried to recover. ”