Hamilton and Leclerc take to the track in Ferrari’s new SF-25

Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc have each pushed the brand new Ferrari SF-25 for the primary time throughout a shakedown on the workforce’s Fiorano check monitor.

The 2025 livery was revealed alongside the opposite 9 groups finally night time’s F1 75 Dwell occasion in London, however each drivers shortly returned to Maranello forward of the primary run for the brand new automobile this morning. Leclerc was first out on monitor in Italy earlier than handing over to Hamilton, as Ferrari confirmed off a refreshed design that’s meant to supply higher growth alternative by means of the season.

A swap from push rod to tug rod entrance suspension is the obvious seen change to the entrance of the automobile and is designed to extend the scope of aerodynamic growth out there to the workforce, after it mentioned it felt it reached a ceiling with final yr’s resolution.

“The SF-25 is an evolution of the SF-24, which gave us a superb place to begin to work from,” chassis technical director Loic Serra mentioned. “Having mentioned that, now we have labored exhausting, altering 99% of the automobile, evolving its structure to maximise efficiency. The pull rod entrance suspension is simply the obvious of many vital modifications.

“We will count on the approaching season to be very carefully contested, with outcomes determined by thousandths of a second. We’re all set to offer it our greatest shot to search out these features, even the marginal ones, that may make the distinction. We’re wanting ahead to being aggressive proper from the very first race.”

Though workforce principal Fred Vasseur has made clear the conceptual selections have been made earlier than Serra’s arrival from Mercedes, the brand new technical chief additionally insists it’s not a danger to make substantial modifications, regardless of Ferrari scoring essentially the most factors of any workforce — and Leclerc essentially the most of any driver — from the summer season break onwards final yr.

“The principle idea of the SF-25 is de facto about discovering some house to spice up the aerodynamic growth and the event generally. The SF-24 completed moderately sturdy, but it surely was changing into increasingly troublesome to develop and discover efficiency,” he mentioned. “So, we needed to type of discover house to spice up the event price.

“The automobile is extra of a continuity of the earlier automobile. We’ve modified a lot of the elements on the automobile, however the principle efficiency idea stays the identical. So, I really don’t count on a studying curve that’s steeper than final yr.

“Hopefully, the event price shall be boosted in comparison with what it was finish of final season. However I’m not anticipating essentially to function the automobile in a really totally different place.”