2025 Formula 1 season began with so much promise for Ferrari. With one of the largest drivers in the history of the sports history connected to the delegation for the future campaign, Ferrari only comes to a finish 14 points behind McLaren The axis was stretched in the 2024-shaped championship race.
While Hamilton F1 Sprint ferrari in Ferrari in the Sprint race, in the Chinese Grand Prix, the arrow remained after Saturday.
However, the team was flinched again in the next afternoon, because both Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, was disqualified after the end points in the Points in China Grand Prix. Hamilton was disqualified for extreme wooden wear in SF-25.
Now Ferrari comes to Suzuka in the area that does not recognize enough for the Japanese Grand Prix: sitting with Williams 17 points in situationsAnd according to Tiebreaker rules, the fifth list was listed in the table.
Again, LeClerc, the weekend and the rest of the season remain “confident” hood. Learning from mistakes in Shanghai, the team in front of the team is not in the front of the teams on the front.
“I’m wrong, if you make a mistake, if you make a mistake, when they are so expensive, especially so expensive,” said LeClerc FIA Press Conference When you ask about double DQ in China.
“Everyone plays with the limit and tries to be as close as possible. But it was a great pain to have the bottom of both cars. We do not need it.
“It was a very difficult part of this season. The first two races were difficult.” When such events occur, we try to understand and analyze and analyze the process. This was a large number of things and the margin we received was not big enough. “
SF-25, the team asked Challenger for the 2025 season, LeClerc, said that the car is “difficult” for driving, but always, each of the drivers are always trying to remove each of their competitors. Instead, LeClerc, McLaren’s gap and now Ferrari is “not good enough at the moment.”
“It’s not always as hard as it’s” said LeClerc. “It’s always difficult to remove the maximum of this season – this season is more difficult – this season is not only good enough than the performance compared to McLaren. This is not enough for this.
“But step by step, I am sure that this weekend we can close this gap.”
However, in Japan, a big step forward, Ferrari fans they expect from a big step can be asked to. When asked during the FIA ​​press conference, if he was waiting for “forward progress”, LeCLERR, Ferrari’nın in China and said that Shanghai won the F1 Sprint in Shanghai.
“We saw a big step on Saturday – especially in Sprint race with Lewis. Sunday, I think this is back to normal,” said LeClerc. “Therefore, I expect to be more or less where we are in China in China and Melbourne.”
Detrading of tires for many years was a problem for Ferrari. The team took a big step in 2024 in 2024, but both LeClerc and Hamilton are one of the drivers, which are one of the drivers in the Grand Prix, Hamilton’s two-state strategies.
LeClerc, specialty and team, a tempo of each other, said he fought as a reason for the current degradation woes.
“I think we have an idea of ​​understanding and lacking the car,” he began to LeClerc when asked about Ferrari’s tempo.
“It was well understood in Australia.
“When you start, everything comes a little more. But Lewis made a change on Friday and Saturday in the second classification – everyone saw more pace,” said LeClerc. “I think it’s very similar to last year because we have a good car in terms of race, but we couldn’t really show it so far.
“So, I think it’s still good as we see the pace with Lewis. But if I do not have a better qualification pace. Therefore, if I have to develop, the Ferrari driver said.
Again, as shown in all these issues, the driver believes that the driver could still do “an amazing season”, although the driver started slowly.
Including both design championships and a challenge for the name of drivers.
“It wasn’t” still, “LeClercer asked if Ferrari was the time to worry about the titles.
“If we look at the first few competitions until last year, our situation in terms of the play was a little bad.
“Currently, this feeling within the team did not feel absolute,” LeClerc said.
“However, the feeling that we can not maximize we can be in the first two competitions, and it is nervous. But it doesn’t mean we can’t restore. The season is still very long.
“After small steps, small steps – can still be in an incredible season.”
