F1: Ferrari plays his last 2025 chips

The Scuderia will premiere a new rear suspension in the Belgium GP and will bring modifications to the direction assisted to Hungary, the final attempts of the team to try to add triumphs in the year.

Gradually the Formula 1 teams are closing the 2025 exercise in terms of the updates of their cars. With the new technical regulation that will enter into force in 2026 (cars and engines will be released) as a nearby horizon, the engineers of the teams are leaving aside the era of the soil effect and begin to dedicate all efforts to reach as firm as possible to the next tournament. In some cases like Alpine, the mind posed in 2026 from the Vamos and did not introduce any improvement in the A525. Others, on the other hand, opted to jump in the current course, such as Sauber, and the results were seen on the track. On the Ferrari side, although they are very involved in the 678 project (name doors inside Maranello of the 2026 model), they do not throw their towel in their desire to achieve some victory this season.

The Scuderia bet strongly for this year by hiring Lewis Hamilton to accompany Charles Leclerc. However, and despite taking second place in the World Cup in Builders, it is the only Punta Team that still did not gain competitions in the season. As soon as the success of heptacampeón in the China Sprint, which is not taken to success statistics. Very little. In the SF-25, Ferrari engineers decided to change the front suspension and use the Pull-Rod system and leave the Push-Rod behind. The change generated a very important reside in the configuration and took a wrong path on the ground and the rear suspension. The problem with the background was the wear that suffered by turning in the fast curves with the full tank: the rubbing was very large. Therefore, Hamilton was disqualified in Shanghai’s long race. To prevent it from being repeated, in the Rossa they raised the height of the chassis (the clearance of the ground) and lost performance.

In Austria the new floor was released, but the expected improvement did not arrive. In fact, Hamilton said after the GP of Great Britain, a race that was played with rain, that he had never handled such a complicated car in Silverstone. Ferrari’s last attempts will arrive in the two quotes left before vacations. For Belgium, a new rear suspension will be released.

This week, the Italian team used the Filming Day (days for promotional recordings) to complete 38 laps on the Mugello layout that is attached to the Maranello factory, to know the new system, all under the watchful eye of Loic Serra, The technical director of the Team. Leclerc and Hamilton distributed 19 laps each to complete the 200 kilometers allowed for each day. For these tests, exhibition tires provided by Pirelli are used, they are not those of competition.

The objective of the new suspension is that the chassis is more stable when it finds undulations in the asphalt so that it does not touch the bottom and have a better aerodynamic load available to gain speed. The other retouching will arrive in Hungary, a week after Spa-Francorchamps, with an improvement in the direction, another factor that brought headaches for Leclerc and Hamilton.

Ferrari will move his chips and make the last big change of 2025 with the aim of not closing the season without victories and being able to stay in the second place of builders that these days holds.