Ferrari launches its 2025 car - but will it be a winner?
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We dive into the big talking point of Formula 1 pre-season as Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc drove the new Ferrari SF-25 for the first time at Fiorano today.
Jon Noble joins Edd Straw moments after hearing Lewis Hamilton’s first full press conference as a Ferrari driver to explain why the claim he is “reinvigorated” holds water.
Hamilton’s very obvious enthusiasm at being a Ferrari driver and confidence in it having everything it needs to be a world championship winner this year makes it very clear that he doesn’t for one moment regret leaving Mercedes.
We also explain the approach Ferrari has taken with the new car, with Gary Anderson casting his expert technical eye over what we’ve seen of the SF-25 so far.
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| 1:21.9 | The race is on and Ferrari launched its 2025 car at Fiorano today, with both Charlotte |
| 1:31.6 | Clerk and Lewis Hamilton trying the new SF-25. |
| 1:35.1 | But is it a championship winner? |
| 1:37.0 | And how has the seven times world champions settled in at his new team? |
| 1:40.7 | I'm Ed Strawn joining me to answer perhaps the biggest questions of of preseason, our first John Noble, and then Gary Anderson. |
| 1:47.8 | Well, John, another launch. We've just been hearing from pretty much everybody at Ferrari over the course of the day. Obviously, Lewis Hamilton's the big attraction, isn't he? Now, he talked about being reinvigorated last night at the O2 launch. And I don't know about you, but the session he's just done with us, he did seem reinvigorated, didn't he? He seemed really excited, energized. He almost felt 10 years younger than he seemed at the end of last season when the weight of the world was in his shoulders. Yeah, I think you can often tell when Lewis speaks in terms of he wears his heart on his sleeve. |
| 2:18.3 | If he's downbeat, you know, the answers are very short. |
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