2025 Ferrari SF-25

The grand F1 75 launch event at London's O2 Arena can be seen as the start of the 2025 Formula 1 season and Scuderia Ferrari HP presented the new car's livery, watched by CEO Benedetto Vigna, Team Principal, Fred Vasseur and the drivers, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, as well representatives of the team's partners. The SF-25 is due to make its track debut behind closed doors at Fiorano, running up to 200 kilometres in its first shakedown, shortly before heading to Bahrain for the one and only pre-season test session, from 26 to 28 February.

The car's name, the SF-25 follows the pattern of the past two years and underlines the stability of the regulations. It is the 71st Formula 1 car built by Ferrari, the fourth of the second generation of ground effect cars introduced in 2022. However, it is a completely new car, utilising different technical solutions to those adopted in the past. The most visible change initiated by the Loic Serra-led team is without a doubt that made to the front suspension that switches from a pushrod to a pull rod design. The thinking behind this change in architecture was to clean up the airflow around the car, while also giving greater scope for further aero development, which had pretty much been exhausted with the previous iteration. The car is an evolution from every aspect when compared to last year's, which provided a good starting point. It was designed with the aim of maximising the development potential of the car, in a season when, thanks to the long stability of the regulations now in their final year, one can expect the field to be extremely evenly matched with just thousandths of a second in lap time making the difference.

With the regulations relating to its architecture being frozen since 2022, the Power Únit features no technical innovations. However, this does not mean there was no margin for further improvement. The stability of the regulations also meant that the focus moved towards a further optimisation of power unit use strategy in an effort to tailor it to suit every single race weekend situation and extract the maximum potential from its given performance. Ensuring reliability is a never-ending job, and over the winter, despite a further reduction in the permitted hours of test bench running, work was carried out to analyse and review each process and the lessons learned from the 2024 season, to ensure reliability in all areas.

As was evident in London, the livery has also changed significantly, presenting a perfect mix of past, present and future, with a declaration of style, power and tradition. The darker shade of 2025 Racing Red with its matte finish, evokes decades of racing, taking its inspiration from the intense tones of the early days of the Scuderia, with an angled, bold white band standing out as a distinctive feature on the car, symbolising dynamism and a vision that looks to the future. In amongst the main areas are details that balance tradition with modernity, with subtle thin, glossy red and white stripes which recall the sartorial care applied to the clothing and cars that Ferrari produces every day. The contrast between white and red is a tribute to the marque's history and identity, and to the continuous evolution of Ferrari style, a manifesto for refined sportiness and timeless aesthetics. The glossy detail on the bodywork is in contrast to the matte detailing on gloss finish of the 499 Hypercar, which competes in the World Endurance Championship, underlining the Maranello DNA shared by these two cars, competing in the two most important motor racing championships. The wheel rims are also entirely red, while the numbers on Charles' and Lewis' cars are white, in Ferrari's official font, Ferrari Sans.

Source - Ferrari