Ferrari have run their new 2025 automotive, the SF-25, on observe for the primary time in a shakedown in Italy – a challenger they’ve described as being “fully new” forward of Lewis Hamilton’s maiden season in pink.
Recent from their look at Tuesday night time’s F1 season launch occasion at London’s O2 when the automotive’s newest livery was displayed on a present automotive, the Scuderia have been again on residence soil on Wednesday morning for the primary laps of their precise 2025 machine.
With new signing Hamilton watching on from the storage at their Fiorano take a look at observe, Charles Leclerc accomplished the primary laps within the SF-25.
Hamilton can be as a result of drive the automotive earlier than talking to the media at size for the primary time as a Ferrari driver.
Ferrari can full a 200km shakedown with the automotive forward of the beginning of official pre-season testing subsequent week, which takes place in Bahrain on February 26-28 – stay on Sky Sports activities F1.
Though F1’s rules for 2025 are static, Ferrari have made one important change to their automotive by switching from push to pull-road entrance suspension to be able to open up extra avenues for aerodynamic growth.
Explaining the notable change to the entrance of the automotive, Ferrari stated in a press release: “The pondering behind this transformation in structure was to wash up the airflow across the automotive, whereas additionally giving better scope for additional aero growth, which had just about been exhausted with the earlier iteration.
“The automotive is an evolution from each facet when in comparison with final yr’s, which supplied start line. It was designed with the intention of maximising the event potential of the automotive, in a season when, because of the lengthy stability of the rules now of their last yr, one can count on the sphere to be extraordinarily evenly matched with simply thousandths of a second in lap time making the distinction.”
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