Debate | Ferrari should write off 2025 and focus on 2026 (while there's time)
Formula 1 World Championship 2025, Round 7, Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy, Saturday 17 May 2025 - Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari SF-25.
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Ferrari's season has so far been a debacle. After the promise shown in the latter stages of 2024, the team are currently unable to escape Q2 at their first home race of the year. The sensible thing would be to look ahead, not at the summer break and beyond, but to next year.
When Lewis Hamilton made the switch to Ferrari, the Italians were head and shoulders above Mercedes, with the 'cold' exception here and there. But no one could've foreseen that the tables would've thus been turned so dramatically.
Ferrari changed too much to very little effect
Before the 2024 season started team principal Frederic Vasseur spoke boldly - and hopeful - of a completely revamped 2025 Ferrari with the clear aim of fighting for both titles.
Under the technical leadership of former Mercedes man Loic Serra, the new development path set forth for the Scuderia is anything but effective with Charles Leclerc and Hamilton both saying that they can't do more than what they are doing.
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What's more worrying is that the Italians, despite their resources, infraestructure and heritage, they seem unable to get out of the slow spiral down into the midfield.
Formula 1 World Championship 2025, Round 7, Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Imola, Italy, Saturday 17 May 2025 - Charles Leclerc (MON) Ferrari.
Ferrari's hopes of a hierarchy revamp are a sign of despair
As Ferrari cling on to Spain for a reshuffle of the hierarchy in F1, there's very little indication that such a dramatic event will happen. Aston Martin team principal wondered, speaking to media including GPblog, when was the last time this had happened after a technical directive being implemented?
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Indeed, up and down the paddock the realisation that the order may not change at all, and that McLaren will continue to lead the field is settling in. That a front wing's flexion value changes alters the state of the championship to such an extent is nearly impossible.
With the seventh round of the season about the be ran, it is clear that both titles are out of the Italian team's reach. 2025 will hold little more than the odd podium and in the best of cases the seldom win.
GPblog now asks its readers, wouldn't it be better if the team forewent the 2025 season altogether and focus on 2026 to make sure they have the most possibilties of fighting for loftier goals?
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