only one% of SF-24 parts for use

December 19, 2024

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Through the latest Christmas lunch, Ferrari group principal Fred Vasseur formally introduced the presentation and shakedown date for the Maranello group’s 2025 Formulation 1 automotive, which can happen on Wednesday, February 19, in Maranello. In different phrases, the day after the foremost season launch occasion, through which all ten groups, their respective Crew Principals, drivers, and worldwide visitors will take part to have fun the seventy fifth anniversary of the World Championship. You will need to be aware that this occasion will solely current the liveries of the varied groups, whereas for the brand new automobiles, anybody who needs will be capable of maintain their very own devoted occasion, because the Maranello group will do.

Trying again on the 2024 Formulation 1 championship, Ferrari has skilled a season with three faces. The primary half was clearly because the second pressure, with the objective of catching up with Crimson Bull. The center half was extra difficult, with Ferrari dropping to 3rd and even fourth on observe after the introduction of the problematic ground on the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain, adopted by a robust closing a part of the season, specifically from the Italian Grand Prix at Monza onwards, the place they have been in a position to compete for the highest spot at sure occasions. “I feel the strategy this yr was excellent. Even once we encountered difficulties in July, the group’s response was excellent. We by no means blamed anybody or a division, however we labored collectively to seek out options throughout totally different teams, and it undoubtedly went nicely,” stated Frederic Vasseur to the press current on the Christmas lunch in Maranello – “In fact, it could have been higher to not have issues, however I feel the response was good, and that’s what we count on for the long run if we need to battle for the championship.”

After a interval of nice understanding, throughout which Charles Leclerc was typically sacrificed to collect helpful information for manufacturing facility evaluation on unexpected issues launched with the aerodynamic replace package deal dropped at Barcelona, the SF-24 single-seater turned aggressive once more. “I used to be very pleased with the group’s response this yr as a result of a constructive level of our season for me was once we struggled between the top of June and early July and have been in a position to react rapidly, then displaying good tempo each within the race in Budapest and in Spa,” Frederic Vasseur stated. It’s value noting that in Hungary, the ‘advanced ground’ debuted, with the primary makeshift corrections made by way of Computational Fluid Dynamics evaluation with out spending hours within the wind tunnel, to repair among the points encountered with the Montmelo package deal. “This sort of response will likely be essential for subsequent yr. It’s true that now when growing the automotive, generally you are taking dangers when introducing updates, and that’s one thing that has affected everybody, nevertheless it’s the way you react on this scenario that turns into essential, even for subsequent yr,” Fred Vasseur concluded.

Ferrari shock: Fred Vasseur pronounces that lower than 1% of the SF-24 parts have been transferred to the 2025 automotive
The Italian group expects so much from the 2025 automotive, because it has already been emphasised a number of occasions, having invested many technical sources and organising a totally new mission that sees modifications in all the foremost areas of the automotive: from the chassis, to the place of the motive force and the engine, to the mechanics and aerodynamic surfaces. “We’re within the fourth yr of this regulation’s software, and we all know our earlier mission very nicely. Because of this, the 2025 automotive will likely be utterly new,” introduced Fred Vasseur throughout the Christmas lunch in Maranello.

A calculated danger, based on the group principal of the Italian group, though with the present rules, “generally you get the sensation that you’re not taking dangers, however then on observe you notice that you just completely have been.” There will likely be vital modifications to the entrance, with the suspension switching to a pull-rod configuration, following the philosophy already utilized by McLaren and Crimson Bull. Together with the numerous mechanical enhancements, the aerodynamic surfaces of the ground have undergone a serious redesign, as reported by the Italian web site AutoRacer and will probably be fairly totally different from the primary spec 25 iteration seen on observe beginning in Las Vegas. Surprisingly, in comparison with the automotive that received 5 of the 24 races throughout the just lately concluded season, even 99% of the elements will change, as Vasseur acknowledged that the 2025 Ferrari will share “lower than 1% of the present automotive,” marking what is actually a distinct mission designed to attempt to win a minimum of one of many two out there world championships.