Ferrari introduces car upgrades for F1 Bahrain GP to combat poor form

Ferrari has introduced its first replace package deal of the 2025 System 1 season to the Bahrain Grand Prix, introducing a brand new flooring to inject extra efficiency into its SF-25.

The Italian squad has lacked vital tempo up to now this 12 months, resulting in each Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton stating after final weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix that Ferrari wanted upgrades to compete with McLaren, Crimson Bull, and Mercedes. 

Leclerc had hinted that updates had been within the pipeline for the approaching races; as such, Ferrari has addressed its underbody design in an effort to search out extra downforce.

This has been a wide-ranging replace bearing on all components of the ground; the ground fences (the vertical strakes on the entrance) have been reprofiled, whereas the vanguard to the ground physique has additionally obtained modifications.

Ferrari’s pre-event technical notes state that the “up to date entrance flooring / fences goal an enchancment of the losses travelling downstream”.

These adjustments have additionally been augmented with a change to the ground edge wings, whereas the rear of the ground has additionally been addressed with a reprofiled growth zone into the diffuser.

The workforce’s notes additionally state that “the reshaped boat-tail and tunnel growth have been subsequently reoptimised, along with the ground edge loading and vorticity shedding into the diffuser”.

A small change to the rear wing pillar has additionally been submitted, with a change to the winglet mounted right here which “goals at a minor enchancment of automotive aerodynamic effectivity”.

McLaren and Crimson Bull have additionally launched minor adjustments to their vehicles in Bahrain; the MCL39 has obtained a brand new entrance brake duct winglet “aiming at higher stream conditioning, leading to an enchancment of general aerodynamic efficiency”.

Crimson Bull’s entrance wing additionally has the choice for a longer-chord higher component (a higher distance between the main and trailing edges) to make sure it could actually steadiness the downforce with any of the higher-downforce rear wings.

Together with Haas, Crimson Bull has additionally registered adjustments for the elevated cooling calls for of the Bahrain weekend with a special set of cooling louvres to expel extra warmth from throughout the engine bay. Haas, in the meantime, has opened up the central outlet on the rear of its engine cowl to supply an identical impact.

It’s anticipated that lots of the groups will open up their cooling louvre panels on the engine cowl to be able to be certain that the powertrain is just not topic to overheating through the race weekend.