2025 Miami Grand Prix - Practice, Sprint & Qualifying Thread

[nani_s23]

Fred’s statement would be “it’s a matter of .1 - .2 positions will change race by race.

[nani_s23]

Leclerc did see Max 4 titles infront of him
He will see Lando or Piastri win the WDC title
Now he’s seeing 17yr old Kimi taking the pole.

But Ferrari - Leclerc stay constant.

[PURE PASSION]

We are talking about drivers .
Ok Antonelli put a very good lap , but on a day where Merc is almost as fast as McL . Rus early lap is P4 despite track evolution .
Lec started his career on 1 of the slowest cars and put it regularly in Q3 ,
When he went to Ferrari , he beat Vet and took pole on his 2nd race ,and he hadnt the mechanical problem he would have win easily against Ham and the mighty Merc !!!
SO yes that last thing i care is the results of other drivers . JUST FIX THE DAMN CAR !!!!!!

[PURE PASSION]

If there will be a time that the car will be ok(ish) and Lec making mystakes , i will be the 1st to say that its his fault and he needs to do better or the will have to take someone else . But this 7 years he ahs made like 10 mistakes and the team 110 . So .......

[stefa]

you watched the last race didn't you?

Dahhh. But now we are ugly and slow!

[Cavallino]

We (mostly Lec) are doing it . He was not far. Just the other cars are quicker.
IF we actually have some good upgrades (we will have them, the question is how good they will be) then yes we might have an interesting rest of the season . Not so much about championships (we are far behind) but to at least enjoy the races and actually competing for race wins.
But i have the feeling that are more worrying about the others to be slower from the TD , rather then us to actually fixing the issues of this car and make it steadily faster .

i agree, but the championships aren't as far away as you think. 24 races in a season these days.

[Cavallino]

Dahhh. But now we are ugly and slow!

nice one. stay tuned. lurk more. analyze. you'll get up to speed.

[Red is Best]

Disappointing result, but pace-wise we are not that far off. I mean qualifying on the third row while being only .326 from pole is extremely harsh.

[nani_s23]

Disappointing result, but pace-wise we are not that far off. I mean qualifying on the third row while being only .326 from pole is extremely harsh.

Such that others have improved & Ferrari stayed there in the quali since the season start & ofcourse last season too.

[FerrariF60]

nice one. stay tuned. lurk more. analyze. you'll get up to speed.

Yeah, we’ll get up to speed alright
But when will Ferrari try and donthe same? Oh yeah, same story every year….which is NEXT YEAR

[PURE PASSION]

Ferrari car leaves Hamilton and Leclerc disheartened: ‘That’s our pace’:

— Ferrari drivers Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc were left disappointed after finishing P6 and P7 respectively in Sprint Qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix. Hamilton, speaking to F1 TV, acknowledged the team’s lack of pace:

“It was a better session. P1 was probably a bit better, the car was a bit better, the car was a bit nicer to drive. We are just lacking speed but we just keep working from there.”

— Hamilton added that he doesn’t expect significant improvement during the Sprint:

“I think all the cars ahead are faster. I don’t know what else to say.”

“There’s always ideas. Whether or not they will be right or not… there’s definitely learnings to be taken – set-up changes, how the car behaved, there’s definitely work to do to pick up speed going into the rest of the weekend.”

— Leclerc echoed Hamilton’s sentiment, stating bluntly that Ferrari’s pace simply wasn’t competitive:

“Bad. The lap was good. But the pace is just not at all there for now, so it’s a bit annoying but it’s the way it is for now.”

“I’ll try my best tomorrow to try to do something special with the start, but to be honest, there’s not much room for improvement today. It was just… that’s the pace of the car.”

— Leclerc found little comfort in the SF-25’s performance, noting that weaknesses appear across all corners:

“It’s every corner, really, so it’s not like we are particularly weak in one type of corner. Yes, the slow speed seems to be a little bit more of our weakness, but it changes from one weekend to the other, so it’s just not great.”

#charlesleclerc #lewishamilton #scuderiaferrari ����

VIA: [gpblog]

Heartbreaking!!!!!

[ntukza]

Well, at least we still have more room for development. We gave up a spot at the sharp end of the grid for this so called room for development, on the last year of the current regs.

[Dune]

Unserious team, unfortunately. No leadership.

[PURE PASSION]

Unserious team, unfortunately. No leadership.

I would be that hard . The racing team is doing what they can . Its the very top management (Elkann - Vigna etc) who looks to care more about profits / image etc . And with lots of newly rich from social (who dont know and dont care about motorpsort) buying their cars and with huge profit , they dont care much id the team end up 4th or lower.
And in all this the racing team end up being completelylost and doesn't look to being able to find the right person to pull us out of this abyss!!!

[PURE PASSION]

Fred Vasseur admits a “problem” with the SF-25 car: that’s where Ferrari loses everything
Fred Vasseur admits Ferrari’s SF-25 struggles with balance and tyre overheating

When even Vesseur admits it , we have serious problem

[Dune]

I would be that hard . The racing team is doing what they can . Its the very top management (Elkann - Vigna etc) who looks to care more about profits / image etc . And with lots of newly rich from social (who dont know and dont care about motorpsort) buying their cars and with huge profit , they dont care much id the team end up 4th or lower.
And in all this the racing team end up being completelylost and doesn't look to being able to find the right person to pull us out of this abyss!!!

Ferrari is all about shareholder value at this point. I see no hunger from top management to win in F1.

[paolo lalli]

To many watch and clothing promotions literaly now in the rag trade,taking pole and wins with watches and clothing but on the track where it really matters looking lost and naked.

[Red is Best]

Still don't understand all this doom and gloom for a 0.3 gap in qualifying. We are one good update away from fighting for victory. An our race pace is better than our qualifying pace, as demonstrated in Bahrein and Saudi Arabia.

[Dune]

Still don't understand all this doom and gloom for a 0.3 gap in qualifying. We are one good update away from fighting for victory. An our race pace is better than our qualifying pace, as demonstrated in Bahrein and Saudi Arabia.

We are always one good update away. It’s always the same, year in year out. It’s about time to have a championship car.

[Greig]

We are always one good update away. It’s always the same, year in year out. It’s about time to have a championship car.

You still boring up the forum with these posts every race weekend?

[Dune]

You still boring up the forum with these posts every race weekend?

As long as Ferrari doesn’t deliver, Tifosi will complain. And Ferrari does not deliver.

[FerrariF60]

As long as Ferrari doesn’t deliver, Tifosi will complain. And Ferrari does not deliver.

I’m afraid you’re right mate
Tifosi will always complain when Ferrari is not delivering. And at the moment clearly the results aren’t there

[jgonzalesm6]

The last Italian to take pole was Giancarlo Fisichella in 2009 at Spa.

[Cavallino]

The last Italian to take pole was Giancarlo Fisichella in 2009 at Spa.

and still is for now

[Red is Best]

The last Italian to take pole was Giancarlo Fisichella in 2009 at Spa.

The only Ferrari win of the 2009 season IIRC.

[PURE PASSION]

OMG !!!
LEC crash the car before to sprint race ???!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dune]

OMG !!!
LEC crash the car before to sprint race ???!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aquaplaning, so let’s send our drivers out on inters. The only team btw. Classic Ferrari

[PURE PASSION]

Ok that's it
EVERYTHING IS terrible with us this year !!!!!

[Red is Best]

Man this is a ***** joke. An then we have people opening topics to ask if Leclerc is better than Verstappen. Don't make me laugh. And I'm a die-hard Leclerc fan.

[Dune]

Man this is a ***** joke. An then we have people opening topics to ask if Leclerc is better than Verstappen. Don't make me laugh.

Verstappen had similar problems in the past. So much for that.

Ferrari finds a way to take all of my joy to watch F1.