Dec.20 (GMM) Frederic Vasseur says Ferrari’s automobile for the 2025 season can be “utterly new”.
It’s a shocking assertion, given the Maranello primarily based crew’s end-of-season competitiveness and the truth that 2025 is the ultimate yr of the present rules earlier than the all-new chassis and engine guidelines for 2026.
Christian Horner, as an example, was requested whether or not Purple Bull’s 2025 automobile can be evolutionary or revolutionary, and he admitted: “It will likely be a little bit of each.
“There can be developments in several areas of the automobile and main adjustments in others,” he stated, noting that it will likely be the primary Purple Bull that Adrian Newey didn’t design.
“The crew has to rise to the problem and I’m assured they’ll. We’ll see what the RB21 seems like when it’s unveiled on the finish of January.”
Nonetheless, Horner’s counterpart at Ferrari says the Italian crew has a really completely different strategy to 2025.
“We’re within the fourth yr of making use of these rules and we all know our earlier challenge very properly,” stated Vasseur. “That’s the reason the 2025 automobile can be utterly new.”
He added that the 2025 Ferrari “will share lower than 1 %” with the purple single seater that was raced by Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc this season.
Spanish broadcaster DAZN believes the adjustments embody a cockpit place change, as per Lewis Hamilton’s request, which additionally means adjustments to the engine mounting and a shorter gearbox. Moreover, a transfer to McLaren-style pull-rod entrance suspension is predicted, in addition to Mercedes-like brake cooling.
However though Vasseur appears to have been receptive to Hamilton’s cockpit place request, the Frenchman says the seven time world champion won’t be bringing any engineers with him from Mercedes.
“No,” he insisted, “as a result of we’ve no intention of replicating Mercedes right here at Ferrari. We now have our guys and the correct sources to win, so let’s work to create an authentic. I don’t need a copy.
“He’ll deliver his personal experiences and background, however that doesn’t imply we’ve to alter our strategy. I feel Lewis will perceive that completely,” Vasseur added.
“I do know Lewis very properly, however we should not copy and paste from Mercedes. The working atmosphere there was excellent originally and fewer good on the finish. They don’t seem to be the champions. We should do one thing completely different.”
