{"id":25996,"date":"2024-10-30T13:35:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=25996"},"modified":"2024-10-30T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T17:44:20","slug":"f1-news-ferrari-optimistic-about-progress-on-2025-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/10\/30\/f1-news-ferrari-optimistic-about-progress-on-2025-car\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 News: Ferrari optimistic about progress on 2025 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari are enjoying their best results of 2024 in recent weeks, thanks to the SF-24&#8217;s latest upgrades. The team&#8217;s current form validates the confidence shown by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/10\/19\/fred-vasseur-red-bull-use-of-device-would-not-be-a-grey-area\/\" target=\"_self\">Fred Vasseur<\/a> during the summer break. The Frenchman also believes <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/10\/29\/f1-news-ferrari-upgrades-could-tip-scale-in-development-war\/\" target=\"_self\">Ferrari&#8217;s upward trajectory<\/a> will translate into 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>Ferrari on the right path heading into the winter break<\/h2>\n<p>Having jumped Red Bull in the team standings, Ferrari are understandably working to catch their next target &#8211; McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>The Scuderia are within touching distance of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/10\/27\/andrea-stella-mistakes-from-norris-and-piastri-were-costly\/\" target=\"_self\">Andrea Stella&#8217;s squad<\/a>, with Ferrari expected to introduce another update in Qatar before the season concludes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to extracting every tenth from the SF-24, the factory in Maranello is preparing for next year. Like the rest of the field, the Scuderia&#8217;s 2025 challenger will be determined by the next few months of development.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"eiQANElIQaF4gt7n5OHBtg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2181202611\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'eiQANElIQaF4gt7n5OHBtg',sig:'GJn-35vAVTMjk6wTlPA32gtuSyOwY_l3eDa30Ln9gQc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2181202611',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Vasseur&#8217;s comments give reason for confidence<\/h3>\n<p>Generally speaking, team principals work to downplay expectations in their media interviews.<\/p>\n<p>There is little incentive for teams to make bold predictions about their progress &#8211; since this only puts them in a position to be criticised if they underachieve.<\/p>\n<p>With that said, Fred Vasseur has been consistently confident in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/10\/22\/f1-news-ferrari-optimistic-about-sustaining-title-challenge-in-2025\/\" target=\"_self\">Ferrari&#8217;s trajectory<\/a>. Even during their worst spell of the season (after the Spanish GP updates), Vasseur insisted that corrections could be made.<\/p>\n<p>The Monza updates brought to fix the SF-24&#8217;s persistent limitations proved that his confidence was well-founded.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did he emphasise that Ferrari would make progress in the second half of 2024, but Vasseur also <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/08\/26\/fred-vasseur-ferrari-are-fighting-for-the-championship\/\" target=\"_self\">revealed the team&#8217;s 2025 challenger was in a good place<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The development of the 2025 Ferrari is proceeding well,&#8221;<\/em> were his exact words.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that F1 teams are always planning ahead, the corrections brought to Monza would have formed Ferrari&#8217;s baseline for next year&#8217;s project.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of two successive victories, there Scuderia can be confident about their trajectory for next year&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari are enjoying their best results of 2024 in recent weeks, thanks to the SF-24&#8217;s latest upgrades. The team&#8217;s current form validates the confidence shown by Fred Vasseur during the summer break. The Frenchman also believes Ferrari&#8217;s upward trajectory will translate into 2025. Ferrari on the right path heading into the winter break Having jumped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":25907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2220,68,465,84,2250],"class_list":["post-25996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-2024-formula-1-season","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-ferrari","tag-sf-24"],"modified_by":"Jaden Diaz-Ndisang","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}