Source: REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
[Saba Sports News] Italian media recently revealed the “Achilles’ heel” of Ferrari’s SF-25 race car – this car loses mechanical grip under low-speed corners and when fuel levels are insufficient. Data shows that Lewis Hamilton’s average speed per lap in slow bends at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was 0.4 seconds slower than Charles Leclerc, leading to his poor performance in the race. More alarmingly, the car’s sensitivity to changes in height exceeded expectations, with the shadow of disqualification due to excessive wear of the undercarriage still looming over Maranello’s garage after the Chinese Grand Prix. Newly released internal technical reports from Ferrari show that when the fuel level of the SF-25 race car drops below 40 liters, the rear wheel grip decreases by 23%, a data point repeatedly confirmed in simulators. Hamilton’s driving style particularly suffers from this – his hallmark “delayed braking and rapid steering techniques” become completely ineffective under these conditions. Leclerc, however, successfully minimized the losses to less than 0.2 seconds per lap by adopting a strategy of braking 50 meters earlier. The team has urgently implemented Plan B, customizing a special fuel injection system for Hamilton, but the technical director admitted: “This is like patching a holey ship.”