2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[ringo]

What a difference 4 months make. All the bashing and how he's washed up and needs a rocket ship, and it's just marketing. All those myopic posts are still on the forum. You just don't get 7 championships and 105 wins by being lucky. I think Lewis will push Charles like he has never been pushed before. This is an early wake up call for Leclerc and came at the right time.
Lewis will also weaken Redbull. He's already in Max's and Marko's head I am sure. Max had less experienced guys to fight at the front the last 4 years and probably got a bit relaxed.
Ferrari looking good for the constructors!

[Fakepivot]

are we on agreement that car has protentional?, I can't wait to see how it is developed

[catent]

It’s amusing to see individuals who’ve followed Ferrari for a grand total of one (and some change) race, commenting as if they know what’s best for Leclerc, or determining any decisive pecking order at this stage in the season. We are very much prisoners of the moment (human nature, I suppose) and forget that 23 races (and several more sprints) will occur before all is said and done.

As for today’s sprint, absolutely brilliant drive from Hamilton. Leclerc did well to manage his tires enough to attack Russell late; Ferrari was taking over 0.5s out of Mercedes through S1 alone by the final 2-3 laps.

If they can both turn in strong qualifying performances, it should be a four car race tomorrow between Ferrari and McLaren.

[evered7]

The car has good pace and good tire life. But it looks like Leclerc has got his mind set on gently using up the tires.

Baku was one race where he was blindsided and this race as well.

He has to find a middle ground to be aggressive to defend and also not take too much of the tires.

Australia and China aren't exactly his best tracks. So damage limitation as much as possible will be crucial.

He should be happy that the car is winning. His time will come. Very soon.

[Jdn1327]

I don't think we should be assuming that if Hamilton does well in Ferrari, it makes Russell some godly driver for beating him... but anyways what an insane thing to say after one session.

You can really tell who in this topic are Ferrari fans and who are here to start crap. A real Tifosi would be overjoyed at having two competitive drivers, same as last season. The same can't be said for some other teams.

The pace today looked really good. Great tire saving by both drivers with lower deg and they didn't sacrifice much pace at the start of the stint. If Leclerc can find more comfort in the car I think a double podium is possible. But we'll see how qualifying goes before getting too excited.

The crucial factor is to be ahead in qualy. Charles times in free air were super strong but behind another car and the graining was bad.

Charles just needs to adjust the setup is all, he was losing quite a bit of time to Russell in the corners when he got into drs range cause the car wouldnt turn for him, positive is the his car looked quick even in dirty air towards the end

To be fair to Charles he's only had 3 grand prix here. In 2018 he finished 18th, 2019 in 5th and 2024 in 4th. So it's not a favoured or we'll known circuit for him. So I would think Hamilton would have more experience setting up the car...knowing how to deal with problem turns...Charles just need to find good balance for qualifying and maybe there is a double podium on for Ferrari

[Luscion]

The crucial factor is to be ahead in qualy. Charles times in free air were super strong but behind another car and the graining was bad.

Charles just needs to adjust the setup is all, he was losing quite a bit of time to Russell in the corners when he got into drs range cause the car wouldnt turn for him, positive is the his car looked quick even in dirty air towards the end

To be fair to Charles he's only had 3 grand prix here. In 2018 he finished 18th, 2019 in 5th and 2024 in 4th. So it's not a favoured or we'll known circuit for him. So I would think Hamilton would have more experience setting up the car...knowing how to deal with problem turns...Charles just need to find good balance for qualifying and maybe there is a double podium on for Ferrari

Yea its not a knock on Charles, infact the opposite, he just needs to change the setup of the car, despite his issues he was stilll quick at the end

[Vanja #66]

Funny because I got a call from Vasseur too. He told me that I should not be happy about the sprint qualifying result and rather keep my expectations as low as possible because they've done an awful job with the car overall. Here and there they will cheat like in China, but the real performance of the car is way off.

I don't know if I should tell this in the forum, but... they actually mounted the pull-rod front suspension the wrong way. Vasseur at the moment is trying everything to convince a McLaren engineer to explain them the secrets of suspension mounting in a crash course.

OMG! He told I was his ONLY special confidante! Now I understand how Toto feels being backstabbed by Fred...

[venkyhere]

It’s amusing to see individuals who’ve followed Ferrari for a grand total of one (and some change) race, commenting as if they know what’s best for Leclerc, or determining any decisive pecking order at this stage in the season. We are very much prisoners of the moment (human nature, I suppose) and forget that 23 races (and several more sprints) will occur before all is said and done.

[Jdn1327]

Charles just needs to adjust the setup is all, he was losing quite a bit of time to Russell in the corners when he got into drs range cause the car wouldnt turn for him, positive is the his car looked quick even in dirty air towards the end

To be fair to Charles he's only had 3 grand prix here. In 2018 he finished 18th, 2019 in 5th and 2024 in 4th. So it's not a favoured or we'll known circuit for him. So I would think Hamilton would have more experience setting up the car...knowing how to deal with problem turns...Charles just need to find good balance for qualifying and maybe there is a double podium on for Ferrari

Yea its not a knock on Charles, infact the opposite, he just needs to change the setup of the car, despite his issues he was stilll quick at the end

Yeah for sure. Charles is a very intelligent racer...and people tend to overlook that because of how quick he is over 1 lap. But he managed his tyres well and nearly overtook Russell at the end.

[jambuka]

Hope LEC can fix his setup issues and find the balance.

[hollus]

OK, OK, OK, that kid lewis did quite amazing in a red car today. And yesterday.

But tone it down now with the sarcasm and the personal attacks. (from both sides!). Let other members be.

[Shrieker]

Sprint race stint looked very promising for the race tomorrow too !

Let's see if he can put it on pole again first tho.

[F1NAC]

Great job Lewissssss! Pitty for Charles for losing P4. Could be a double podiumz

[Sidiamal]

Clean air is king. Clearly got a very good race car, both Hamilton & Leclerc outlasted all rivals in end-of-stint race pace (Leclerc was mauling Russell and Hamilton dropped Piastri like a stone), but with how difficult overtaking has become it'll be near impossible to put that in action without track position. Qualifying needs to be absolutely on point for both drivers.

[Fakepivot]

did they change stuff after sprint? they look slower in qualy.. mclaren looking mighty with lando