{"id":166086,"date":"2025-09-28T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166086\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:06:14","slug":"from-false-dawn-to-lost-year-how-ferrari-is-facing-winless-f1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166086\/","title":{"rendered":"From false dawn to lost year: How Ferrari is facing winless F1 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a moment, not that long ago, when Ferrari<\/a> was still one of the the great unknowns of the 2025 Formula 1 season, unsure about the potential of its car but convinced that it was a matter of time before it would unlock its hidden speed.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a few months and the Scuderia is facing the prospect of enduring a winless season for the third time in the past 10 years and the first since 2021.<\/p>\n

With Lewis Hamilton<\/a>\u2018s big signing, what was supposed to be the season of reawakening has instead turned into a year of slow-burning despair as the team has become F1\u2019s most conspicuous underachiever.<\/p>\n

The SF-25 is at the root of Ferrari\u2019s malaise and almost every race has exposed a new vulnerability: a lack of straight-line speed here, poor tyre management there, an inability to generate downforce everywhere.<\/p>\n

A mid-season suspension overhaul \u2013 touted as a transformative step \u2013 only served to confirm more fundamental issues with the car: Instead of unlocking the potential the team thought was there, it aggravated balance issues and made the car trickier to set up.<\/p>\n

Since the new suspension was introduced, Ferrari has been outscored by rivals Mercedes<\/a> and Red Bull<\/a>, let alone McLaren<\/a>, by some margin.<\/p>\n

\"Chales<\/p>\n

The revised suspension introduced at Spa didn\u2019t deliver what it was expected<\/p>\n

\n Grand Prix Photo\n <\/p>\n

In Baku last weekend, where Charles Leclerc<\/a> had been on pole for the past four years, Ferrari looked like the sixth-fastest team on its way to its worst result of the season excluding the chaotic first race in Australia and the Dutch GP, where both drivers crashed out.<\/p>\n

Two weeks earlier at Monza, last year\u2019s winner Leclerc had to settle for a distant fourth.<\/p>\n

Development misjudgments<\/p>\n

As highlighted by the Spa suspension, the Scuderia\u2019s technical development path has been marked by missteps.<\/p>\n

Its underwhelming home grand prix at Monza was another example of technical misjudgements that have cost Ferrari dear this season.<\/p>\n

The trimmed DRS flap used in Italy sacrificed cornering stability and made the lives of Leclerc and Hamilton quite difficult at a track where Ferrari\u2019s hopes of salvaging a victory were as high as they had been in a while.<\/p>\n

In a broader context, these technical and set-up struggles have contributed heavily to Ferrari\u2019s decision to halt major performance upgrades to the SF-25 from mid-2025 onward.<\/p>\n

With no further upgrades planned, Ferrari\u2019s realistic potential is now about damage limitation rather than race wins.<\/p>\n

\"Lewis<\/p>\n

Hamilton\u2019s 2025 is still his Chinese GP sprint win<\/p>\n

\n Grand Prix Photo\n <\/p>\n

The team now has to rely on minor, track-specific tweaks and hoping to extract the maximum possible from an inherently compromised package, but the bare facts are merciless: Ferrari has not won a race in 2025, and with just a handful of rounds left, there is no obvious venue where it might break the drought.<\/p>\n

The SF-25 has lacked the adaptability to spring surprises, and even in chaotic conditions, the team has struggled to capitalise.<\/p>\n

Slim chances left<\/p>\n

Of the seven remaining races of 2025, circuits requiring high downforce and strong cornering ability, such as Singapore are less likely to suit Ferrari\u2019s compromised aerodynamics and ongoing set-up challenges.<\/p>\n

Austin has historically been one of the circuits where Ferrari has shown strong potential in recent years, with Leclerc leading a dominant one-two ahead of Carlos Sainz<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

This, in theory, makes Austin one of the more promising venues for Ferrari to avoid ending 2025 winless, even though it still feels like a long shot given its Monza and Baku results.<\/p>\n

Ferrari also won in Mexico last year, but that came after strong showings at Monza, Baku and Austin as the team was still in the fight for the constructors\u2019 championship, quite a contrast to this year.<\/p>\n

\"Charles<\/p>\n

Ferrari\u2019s form at Monza and Baku suggest a winless year is on the cards<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s chances for Mexico, however, appear limited as downforce and cornering stability are likely to blunt competitiveness on the high-altitude venue. Similar problems will be faced in Brazil, Qatar, Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

The pragmatic outlook is that Ferrari might end 2025 winless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a moment, not that long ago, when Ferrari was still one of the the great unknowns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,831,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-166086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}