The ultimate days of the 2024 season are already a preview of what we’ll see in 2025. The groups are busy amassing and analyzing knowledge from the final races and post-Abu Dhabi assessments. For a lot of, that is the primary return to base after the Las Vegas, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi triple header, so there’s nonetheless a major quantity of labor to course of. At Ferrari, alongside the technical facet, there may be additionally an emotional facet with Carlos Sainz’s final days as a Ferrari driver, which can mark a big day for him.
Ferrari brings father and son collectively on observe at Fiorano. A remaining farewell in Maranello for Sainz.
Frederic Vasseur’s staff is making ready to welcome Lewis Hamilton to Maranello, kicking off a much-anticipated partnership that, primarily based on the top of the season, will definitely see the Scuderia combat for the world title in 2025. That is the want and thought that Carlos Sainz, about to depart Maranello for the final time, expressed in his farewell message to the staff in Abu Dhabi: “You’re a staff able to combat for the championship. I hope to see Charles and also you as champions subsequent yr, and I’ll be cheering for you from Williams,” mentioned the emotional Spaniard in entrance of the complete staff at Yas Marina.
Nonetheless, the feelings didn’t finish in Abu Dhabi, as Ferrari organized a big day for the Sainz household on Tuesday; a method to give one final big day not just for their driver but in addition for his household. At Fiorano, the Ferrari F1-75 will take to the observe with Carlos Sainz Sr, the rally legend and father of the Spaniard who has been with Ferrari in recent times, on the wheel. He will probably be joined by his son. That is undoubtedly a particular and emotional occasion, as they’ll share a couple of laps on the historic Ferrari check observe, adopted by a go to to the manufacturing facility to say goodbye to all the staff in Maranello who’ve labored facet by facet with Carlos Sainz Jr over the previous 4 years, appreciating his suggestions, professionalism, and the particular person he has at all times been extremely revered and valued throughout the staff. The information has been confirmed by F1 specialists Paolo D’Alessandro and Giuliano Duchessa for autoracer.it.
These would be the remaining days of the 2024 season for Ferrari as nicely. The final working day of the yr on the Scuderia is anticipated to be on Thursday. Frederic Vasseur will bid farewell to the women and men working at Maranello, giving them day off to spend with their households and resuming work within the new yr, making ready for 2025. The time will come for the primary indications on the brand new automotive, which, based on the French Workforce Principal, “is displaying good outcomes” within the wind tunnel, however everyone seems to be conscious that it is going to be an essential yr: Lewis Hamilton’s first in Pink, the final of this era of automobiles, and, in fact, an essential yr to proceed the momentum of the season simply ended, the place from Spa onwards, Charles Leclerc and Ferrari would have been topped world champions after incomes extra factors than anybody else.