Ferrari and an anniversary that is not celebrated

The Maranello team completed a year without winning and has four attempts left in 2025 to avoid closing its 17th season without wins in F1.

Little by little the images of Ferrari’s last triumph in Formula 1 are fading. So much time has passed that the driver who climbed to the top step of the podium that day is no longer in the ranks of Maranello. Last October 27 marked the first anniversary of Carlos Sainz’s success in the 2024 Mexico City GP with the SF-24. Since then, 24 Grand Prix have passed (the last four last year and 20 this year), the exact number of races that the season has, without having a representative of the Rossa with the largest trophy.

In the middle, strong things happened at the Scuderia. Sainz’s departure came as a closing to the pompous hiring of Lewis Hamilton, the seven-time champion who decided to leave Mercedes to fulfill his dream of racing with Ferrari. Until now, it turned into a nightmare. The Englishman did not even achieve a podium, fourth place was his best result in main races and the victory in the sprint in China was the most notable. Little, very little for a team and a driver who aim for more.

FErrari is the only team with a perfect presence in all F1 seasons, a category that was born in 1950. It is the 17th time in history that it has gone a year without achieving a victory and it has four races left in 2025 so as not to close a season without success for the 17th time. 1950, 1957, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2014, 2016, 2020 and 2021.

The longest period of time without success was from the 1990 Spanish GP (with Alain Prost) to the 1994 German GP (Gerhard Berger). It was a gap of 1,401 days and 58 races without a win. At that time F1 had 16 races per season.

Benedetto Vigna, executive director of Ferrari, spoke about the situation that the team is experiencing: “There are other teams where everything works better than us, so we have to make sure that all the ingredients necessary to win work correctly.” said. The podiums achieved by Charles Leclerc in the United States and Mexico raised morale and expectations to try not to close the year without scoring a victory. “It is a sign that makes us happy, but obviously we must keep our feet on the ground. Unfortunately, the season has not gone as we expected. We will continue working united and cohesive, because there are still four races left and we have to give it our all and see how it ends,” he added.