Ferrari is preparing to be bold with the delivery of the Project 677 car for Lewis Hamilton’s first season with the F1 2025 team, he said.
But the team will have to prevent Mercedes lines, who exchanged a 2020 black free to the Hamilton Crusade.
Hamilton is preparing for his first season as a Ferrari pilot, since he has announced almost a year ago that he would register in the Mercedes Scuderia in a contract of several years F1 2025.
Mercedes switched from its classic black colour scheme to a black colour scheme from the 2020 Behind Schedeb season in Hamilton’s campaign, swapping between the two in his best five years with the team.
Hamilton played down concerns last year that he would submit a request to president John Elkann for Ferrari to part with their iconic red livery, insisting that he would not be insistent on a black Ferrari for F1 2025.
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He told Newshounds at the 2024 Canadian Grand Prix: “I didn’t drive a black car for a while, so I won’t do it too early, but no.
“We have definitely talked about having an effect on the paintings and John and the team have many philanthropic paintings that they are doing, so we are going to run a lot with the 44 [charity] mission and have an effect on the things they are doing. “
A report by respected Italian publication Auto Racer has claimed that Ferrariās F1 2025 car, codenamed Project 677, will feature a āboldā new livery with a āmore intenseā shade of red planned.
The new livery would be less excessive than the Burgundy livery used through Ferrari at the 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix at Mugello, where the team held its 1,000th F1 race.
Ferrari has experienced a darker shade of red in the two decades since, infrequently handling a metallic colour in 2007/08 when Hamilton began his F1 career with McLaren.
A detail of the Mugello 2020 free for the 2021 car of the team, which remarkably darker in the rear of the chassis. Ferrari has directed a darker color scheme in the 2022 F1-75 car.
The report adds that the weight economy is a minor fear for groups regarding the design of the free, with a building in the minimum weight of cars and the advent of a new cooling kit for drivers, which was mandatory for races maintained in excessive heat.
We hope that these adjustments will lead to greater creativity in relation to car librarys, with exposed black automobilebon schemes that fit into the era of the soil effect since 2022.
Ferrari’s new decoration deserves its debut in a presentation on the first occasion of the F1 season, which attended the 10 groups and 20 pilots, in London on February 18.
Ferrari confirmed last month that Project 677 will be officially launched on February 19, with Hamilton and team-mate Charles Leclerc expected to receive their first taste of the new car in a shakedown run on the same day.
The head of the Mercedes team, Toto Wolff, recently showed that a black detail in the new W16 for F1 2025 in a wink to Hamilton’s lasting printing in the team.
He told channel 4: “It’s a phenomenon.
āOf course, he played a role in the positioning of the Mercedes logo a little more avant -garde, a little fresher and more extravagant.
“But then, they have an effect on the one it had on the team in terms of diversity: today we have a giant component of our population of underrepresented groups, and that will make us strong, because it’s other cultures, other perceptions and perspectives.
“He made us knead when we had to do it, helped us to make the black car and darken.
“We don’t get out of there. “
The progression of Ferrari’s Project 677, which reportedly passed the FIA’s crash tests before Christmas, is being directed through former Mercedes engineer Loic Serra.
Serra would be close to Hamilton, after sharing the doubts of the global champion seven times about the failure of the design concept of 0 POD pursuid through Mercedes under former technical director Mike Elliott in 2022/23.
The previous reports this month stated that Ferrari had transferred the cabin of his extra car for F1 2025 in a possible spice to Hamilton.
Cockpit positioning proved to be a primary inflammation for Hamilton his penultimate season with Mercedes in 2023, when he complained about being too close to the front wheels.
It is transparent if Hamilton had a direct influence on the resolution to adjust the Ferrari cabin for F1 2025.
The cockpit position is the latest design detail connected to the 677 assignment to emerge since last summer, Ferrari, which harkens back to a sweater suspension for the first time since 2015.
A revised wheelbase is consistent with the reports of a new cabin position for F1 2025, with a shorter gearbox also a domain of interest for Ferrari.
All adjustments would be noticed as an improvement in the distribution of the weight to the management of assistance tires, which demonstrated a strength for Ferrari in the 2024 F1 season, since the 14 problems ended only 14 problems behind McLaren in the classification of the builders.
Reports last week claimed Hamilton will have four days of TPC (Testing of Previous Car) running this month, with a so-called āwake-upā test at Fiorano set to be followed by two days of running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the home of F1ās Spanish Grand Prix.
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