2025 Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team

[Chuckjr]

Walking into a new regulations saga is not the time to be shedding engineers.

[yooogurt]

Seeing rumors about Diego Tondi(Head of Aero) possibly leaving.

Many have asked me this, so I'll answer.
There doesn't seem to be any chance that Chief Aeronautical Officer Diego Tondi will leave his position.
The problems that weakened the SF-25 from the outset are well known and weren't strictly aerodynamic.

[MB_Racer]

Wow this is one the funniest thing I have red for a while…

https://racingnews365.com/fred-vasseur- ... tter-shape

[venkyhere]

Wow this is one the funniest thing I have red for a while…

https://racingnews365.com/fred-vasseur- ... tter-shape

Agree...
A TP talking about FP3 laptimes to paint a positive picture about the car - pathetic. How desperate is Fred ? What kind of 'dressing down' did he get from the Ferrari board ? Is Ferrari as a whole, regretting signing up a superstar driver instead of a superstar car designer ?

[Chuckjr]

Yes.

[PlatinumZealot]

Why is Fred Vasseur blatantly lying ?

https://www.gpblog.com/en/news/ferrari- ... italian-gp

didn't expect this 'PR game' from Vasseur.

https://i.ibb.co/3LNLg6m/monza-2025-fer ... e-pace.png

Lewis fell away by one second then two seconds when compared to the pace of Leclec at the end there? Anybody know why?

[PlatinumZealot]

Sad news, Binotto took Wolf Zimmermann and Lars Schmidt (Lead engineer performance development ICE) from us. (c) autoracer

If I were a German working in Italy, I would love to go "home" to Audi! I don't see why not? Would be lovely to work for maybe more poroper German team since BMW Sauber (Yes still in Switzerland, I know).. And Toyota in Cologne didn't count did it? lol

[CjC]

Wow this is one the funniest thing I have red for a while…

https://racingnews365.com/fred-vasseur- ... tter-shape

Also he’s talking about Monza- probably the most unique track on the calendar these days package wise.
You get the feeling that if Ferrari beat one or both of the McLarens in the a race this year it’ll be a ‘job well done’

[venkyhere]

You get the feeling that if Ferrari beat one or both of the McLarens in the a race this year it’ll be a ‘job well done’

They did. In Monaco. Does that count as an actual race ?

[f1isgood]

Wow this is one the funniest thing I have red for a while…

https://racingnews365.com/fred-vasseur- ... tter-shape

Agree...
A TP talking about FP3 laptimes to paint a positive picture about the car - pathetic. How desperate is Fred ? What kind of 'dressing down' did he get from the Ferrari board ? Is Ferrari as a whole, regretting signing up a superstar driver instead of a superstar car designer ?

His job is probably on the line. I think Ferrari has a personnel problem. They are not based in the UK. Italy simply doesn't pay as well as the rest of Europe either to attract the best European talent - not sure if this is also a factor as I am unfamiliar with Ferrari pay.

I am convinced that in a budget cap era the UK teams have a much bigger advantage in terms of idea exchange from one team to another as it's simply not as hard for personnel to move between teams. Moving to Italy, integrating especially with families is a much more trickier proposition.

Unless they nail the next regulation, it will be a repeat again.

Ferrari should just open a UK base. They might benefit from it.

[CjC]

You get the feeling that if Ferrari beat one or both of the McLarens in the a race this year it’ll be a ‘job well done’

They did. In Monaco. Does that count as an actual race ?

Ah yes so they did. Ok so I’ll re-comment.
If they beat both Mclarens and somebody else wins the race they’ll count it as ‘job well done’

[MattLightBlue]

Wow this is one the funniest thing I have red for a while…

https://racingnews365.com/fred-vasseur- ... tter-shape

Agree...
A TP talking about FP3 laptimes to paint a positive picture about the car - pathetic. How desperate is Fred ? What kind of 'dressing down' did he get from the Ferrari board ? Is Ferrari as a whole, regretting signing up a superstar driver instead of a superstar car designer ?

His job is probably on the line. I think Ferrari has a personnel problem. They are not based in the UK. Italy simply doesn't pay as well as the rest of Europe either to attract the best European talent - not sure if this is also a factor as I am unfamiliar with Ferrari pay.

I am convinced that in a budget cap era the UK teams have a much bigger advantage in terms of idea exchange from one team to another as it's simply not as hard for personnel to move between teams. Moving to Italy, integrating especially with families is a much more trickier proposition.

Unless they nail the next regulation, it will be a repeat again.

Ferrari should just open a UK base. They might benefit from it.

This would be an issue for base level engineers. Once you get at the dealing table with other offers in your hand, this doesn’t apply. I am sure first and second level engineers in GeS are paid the same money than the UK ones.

[f1isgood]

Agree...
A TP talking about FP3 laptimes to paint a positive picture about the car - pathetic. How desperate is Fred ? What kind of 'dressing down' did he get from the Ferrari board ? Is Ferrari as a whole, regretting signing up a superstar driver instead of a superstar car designer ?

His job is probably on the line. I think Ferrari has a personnel problem. They are not based in the UK. Italy simply doesn't pay as well as the rest of Europe either to attract the best European talent - not sure if this is also a factor as I am unfamiliar with Ferrari pay.

I am convinced that in a budget cap era the UK teams have a much bigger advantage in terms of idea exchange from one team to another as it's simply not as hard for personnel to move between teams. Moving to Italy, integrating especially with families is a much more trickier proposition.

Unless they nail the next regulation, it will be a repeat again.

Ferrari should just open a UK base. They might benefit from it.

This would be an issue for base level engineers. Once you get at the dealing table with other offers in your hand, this doesn’t apply. I am sure first and second level engineers in GeS are paid the same money than the UK ones.

Given the budget cap, if you are on the dealing table, you have to signficantly overpay for the same top engineer that some other UK team might want to pay less for. It adds up quickly. If Ferrari's only way to get people to move to Italy is by overpaying more than their competition, they are already at a loss.

For base level engineers, I am not sure what Ferrari's pipeline is. Are they able to get people to come there from the rest of Europe? For instance I feel like I have seen a lot of young engineers from Germany and the likes go the UK if they are in F1. Not sure if Ferrari's base pool for entry level engineers is restrictive in some way.