Although Ferrari has shown off the design of its F1 2025 car, the “first secrets” of the Project 677 claim that the front row suspension that Lewis Hamilton is familiar with in his Mercedes days has been incorporated.
This season, Ferrari will have a new look, only a new pilot couple in Hamilton and Charles Leclerc but also in the car.
The team’s 2025 Challenger, the task called “677,” but widely reported, the SF-25, is expected to bring “one percent” of the parts of its predecessor with potentially the largest lance replacement to the car’s front suspension.
According to Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur, the new car is a major evolution on last year’s five-time Grand Prix-winning SF-24. So much so, that the Frenchman says only “one per cent” of the car has been carried over.
“If it will be competitive, we will know in Bahrain,” said Vasseur. Sometimes you don’t realize that you’re taking risks before the future.
“The car will be absolutely new; I think we’ll have less than 1% of the non-unusual portions with the 2024 car.
“It’s a different project, but the same applies to everyone.”
Although the 2025 cars can theoretically be evolutions of the 2024 machinery given the regulations are stagnant ahead of 2026’s complete overhaul, Ferrari have opted to make major changes. The first of which is the car’s front suspension.
According to ItalPassion. FR, the “biggest innovation” is the adoption of the plex front suspension, which is a design used throughout Hamilton’s time with Mercedes.
This, under the watchful eye of former Mercedes guy Loïc Serra, underwent “in-depth tests” in the team’s pre-season to perceive the “behaviour of the shifts”.
The report says that “the chassis, already completed, is recently experiencing extensive dynamic tests to refine the parameters of the first legal evidence. “
Meanwhile, the rear of the testament retains the 2024 suspension design with “a slight modification” to the chassis to advertise a more balanced weight distribution. This should, Ferrari Hope, herald forward braking functionality and increased handling.
The nose of the car has also been tweaked to promote ‘improved airflow’ while the sidepods have undergone a ‘total’ redesign to reduce volume and optimise aerodynamic flow. In this, the report claims, Ferrari have drawn inspiration from the Red Bull to ‘maximises the efficiency of the airflow to the rear of the car’.
Only time will say if Ferrari has done things with his 2025 car, since the team pursues a first global name from Kimi Raikkonen’s good fortune in 2007.
“We can’t say now whether 2025 will be our year, but I accept it as true with the task we are executing,” Vasseur said. “It will be an intense challenge like the one we have just completed.
“I am very proud of how we tackled difficulties this year, but we must take another step toward consistency.”
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