The ultimate days of the 2024 season are already a preview of what we’ll see in 2025. The groups are busy accumulating and analyzing knowledge from the final races and post-Abu Dhabi exams. For a lot of, that is the primary return to base after the Las Vegas, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi triple header, so there’s nonetheless a big quantity of labor to course of. At Ferrari, alongside the technical facet, there may be additionally an emotional facet with Carlos Sainz’s final days as a Ferrari driver, which can mark a special occasion for him.
Ferrari brings father and son collectively on observe at Fiorano. A remaining farewell in Maranello for Sainz.
Frederic Vasseur’s workforce is getting ready to welcome Lewis Hamilton to Maranello, kicking off a much-anticipated partnership that, primarily based on the top of the season, will definitely see the Scuderia combat for the world title in 2025. That is the want and thought that Carlos Sainz, about to depart Maranello for the final time, expressed in his farewell message to the workforce in Abu Dhabi: “You’re a workforce able to combat for the championship. I hope to see Charles and also you as champions subsequent yr, and I’ll be cheering for you from Williams,” stated the emotional Spaniard in entrance of your complete workforce at Yas Marina.
Nevertheless, the feelings didn’t finish in Abu Dhabi, as Ferrari organized a special occasion for the Sainz household on Tuesday; a approach to give one final special occasion not just for their driver but additionally for his household. At Fiorano, the Ferrari F1-75 will take to the observe with Carlos Sainz Sr, the rally legend and father of the Spaniard who has been with Ferrari lately, on the wheel. He will probably be joined by his son. That is undoubtedly a particular and emotional occasion, as they’ll share just a few laps on the historic Ferrari check observe, adopted by a go to to the manufacturing facility to say goodbye to all the staff in Maranello who’ve labored facet by facet with Carlos Sainz Jr over the previous 4 years, appreciating his suggestions, professionalism, and the particular person he has all the time been extremely revered and valued inside the workforce. The information has been confirmed by F1 specialists Paolo D’Alessandro and Giuliano Duchessa for autoracer.it.
These would be the remaining days of the 2024 season for Ferrari as effectively. The final working day of the yr on the Scuderia is predicted to be on Thursday. Frederic Vasseur will bid farewell to the women and men working at Maranello, giving them time without work to spend with their households and resuming work within the new yr, getting ready for 2025. The time will come for the primary indications on the brand new automotive, which, based on the French Group Principal, “is displaying good outcomes” within the wind tunnel, however everyone seems to be conscious that will probably be an essential yr: Lewis Hamilton’s first in Pink, the final of this era of automobiles, and, after all, an essential yr to proceed the momentum of the season simply ended, the place from Spa onwards, Charles Leclerc and Ferrari would have been topped world champions after incomes extra factors than anybody else.