F1: Ferrari dreams of 2025 and thinks of 2026

Frédéric Vasseur, director of the Scuderia, advanced the planning to fight for this year’s title, but with the aim of developing the car of the next season that will arrive with change of regulations.

Ferrari did not win a pilot title since 2007, by the hand of Kimi Räikkönen and does not keep the constructors crown since 2008. Since then, Fernando Alonso’s caliber corridors and Sebastian Vettel passed through the ranks of La Rossa without being able to stay at the top. By 2025, the Scuderia broke the market and incorporated Lewis Hamilton to accompany Charles Leclerc. Can English achieve what other former champions such as Spanish and German could not? The illusion in Maranello’s ranks are and supports, especially, the operation that the team had in 2024.

Ferrari won five big prizes last year (three with Leclerc and two with Carlos Sainz) and was runner -up of builders (he was 14 points from the champion, McLaren). That walk stimulated the team for the World Cup that will begin on March 16 in Australia and bet strongly for this year when making a new car and with many modifications, as confessed when the SF-25 was presented. It is worth remembering that this season will be transition in F1, taking into account that in 2026 there will be new cars and engines. The teams are very focused on the development of the cars next year, then, how long will the 2025 cars be updated?

Frédéric Vasseur, director of Ferrari, told the work plan in a year that will have two fronts. “If we want to develop the current car, it will surely be in the first races. And I think everyone will do it the same. I don’t want to say that we will stop the work in the car actsL, but we will be more focused on the 2026, “said the Frenchman. Second place in 2024 builders generates a problem for Ferrari: the aerodynamic test restriction system that marks the regulation by the position achieved leaves the Scuderia with a 75 % of the total annual allocation (McLaren will have 70%).

“That means that the first races and the first update that we will make to the car will be crucial for the season. And we will surely bring something in the initial phase of the season. If we have to react, we will not be able to do it after June. The delivery period is very important for large pieces and probably in summer (the European) we will all be fully focused on 2026. If the previous change of rules that arrived in 2022 is analyzed, at the end of 2021 was the fight between Mercedes and Red Bull and took improvements to the last races. You can still have one or two sessions for the development of the current car, but not after September, October, because it makes no sense. Let’s see after a couple of races in the championship where we are, ”added Vasseur.