From Bahrain to Bahrain. This weekend, F1 is about to come back full circle, holding the fourth Grand Prix of 2025 in Bahrain, on the identical observe the place winter testing passed off. Since then, there have been three races—on avenue circuits, quick tracks, and technical layouts. In brief, all attainable circumstances have been coated: a diverse and helpful combine to get a transparent image of the pecking order. A adverse image for Ferrari which, after three race weekends, has clearly proven it’s removed from quick, nowhere close to the front-runners, nor in competition for poles or victories. Quite the opposite, the SF-25 fluctuates between being the third or fourth-best automotive on the grid. There’s no use beating across the bush: after the winter hype, the much-anticipated solutions from the observe have been disappointing for the Prancing Horse, and the Japanese GP confirmed past affordable doubt that the anticipated top-level efficiency is at present out of Ferrari’s attain.
A lot work to do…
The SF-25 struggles and has proven a weak correlation between simulations and on-track efficiency. In Suzuka, as in Melbourne and Shanghai, Ferrari disenchanted as soon as once more, with Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton ending fourth and seventh in Mie, coping with a automotive that’s inconsistent however above all uncompetitive in varied eventualities—considerably slower than McLaren, Purple Bull, and Mercedes (regardless of Leclerc’s try to make up for it). And to make issues worse, it’s a automotive that’s laborious to grasp and function. That is an unacceptable scenario for a crew with championship ambitions, one Ferrari should exit as quickly as attainable—by persevering with to fine-tune the automotive (to unlock unexpressed potential) and accelerating improvement to widen its working window and improve its efficiency. Updates, notably to the ground and different areas, are anticipated as quickly as subsequent weekend in Sakhir.
Fred Vasseur, between rumors and strain: Leo Turrini speaks
It is a second of nice disappointment and dismay for Ferrari, which is struggling to come back to phrases with this unexpectedly complicated image and is working to recuperate—one thing Leo Turrini commented on in his weblog “Profondo Rosso”, particularly in gentle of current statements by Ferrari crew principal Fréd Vasseur. The Frenchman admitted that Bahrain provides an opportunity to measure progress since testing, in addition to a possibility to take steps ahead in optimizing the automotive’s stability and managing each element of the weekend.
“The Sakhir occasion has, bitterly, the flavour of one more last examination. I received’t dwell on the industrial-scale amount of rumors circulating behind the scenes: whether or not true or not, they’re the results of a frankly embarrassing begin to the season. Quite, if you understand how to learn between the traces, what’s attention-grabbing is the message despatched to the world by the nation parish priest. Fred Vasseur—no use denying it—resides by means of probably the most delicate second since changing Mattia Binotto. And he is aware of it completely nicely.”
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