Ferrari has revealed its new car for the 2025 season.
While the team presented its new livery at Formula 1’s official pre-season launch event, it also issued images of the 2025 car, which is due to be presented tomorrow.The most striking change to the SF-25 is at the front of the car. Ferrari’s design team, led by Loic Serra, has moved from a push-rod to pull-rod configuration. “The thinking behind this change in architecture was to clean up the airflow around the car, while also giving greater scope for further aero development, which had pretty much been exhausted with the previous iteration,” said the team in a statement.
Although much of the rest of the car is outwardly similar to its predecessor, which won five rounds last year, Ferrari says the SF-25 is “completely new.”
Ferrari missed out on the constructors’ championship by just 16 points last year. However it has made a major new signing for the upcoming season, having lured Lewis Hamilton away from Mercedes.
Hamilton’s arrival coincides with several changes to the team’s sponsorship roster which are reflected in its latest livery. IBM and Unicredit have joined the team, while Santander’s logos have disappeared, as the Spanish bank has switched its backing to Williams. Hewlett Packard joined Ferrari as its title sponsor after the start of last season.
This has resulted in several changes to the car’s livery, which features more white and, on its rear wing, blue than last year. Ferrari has also switched to a darker shade of red.
Ferrari intends to give the SF-25 its first run on its Fiorano test track tomorrow. The team says it will conduct a 200-kilometre filming day “behind closed doors.”
Pictures: 2025 Ferrari F1-25
Pictures: 2025 Ferrari F1 livery launch
Here from the beginning. Please welcome the SF-25! pic.twitter.com/oEB2b4Yjit
— Scuderia Ferrari HP (@ScuderiaFerrari) February 18, 2025
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black (@black)
18th February 2025, 21:39
When you pay for a full bucket of white paint and you have to use all of it…
BasCB (@bascb)
19th February 2025, 7:01
:-)
S Arkazam
19th February 2025, 8:28
I guess they had to use it up before they replace it with black paint.
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
18th February 2025, 21:43
Mamma mia, it’s like the 1993 white stripe controversy again. No, worse.
Davethechicken
18th February 2025, 22:02
My immediate thoughts too.
Not just as barcode like though.
Wer
18th February 2025, 22:18
The 1993 car had a beautiful, simple and elegant white stripe, much akin to the top white section on the 1970’s Ferraris driven by Nicki Lauda (and those had more white, bc also the sidepods were partially white).
Whereas, this travesty is disgusting:
– it runs at an angle that doesn’t flow with anything
– it has a random thin line on one side that is even more randomly discontinued once it runs into the side camera
– the blue HP logo is not in the center of that white stripe, but awfuly at its top
El Pollo Loco
18th February 2025, 21:46
The HP blue really doesn’t work well in this livery.
BasCB (@bascb)
19th February 2025, 7:01
And the way they threw in a white area around it didn’t help a bit either.
Mr A
18th February 2025, 22:00
Bleaurgh. No. Just… No. A Ferrari should be red with black and yellow bits, not with blue and white. The engine cover is atrocious. This isn’t another return to 1993, this is just a travesty. What a shame.
3/10
Olivier
18th February 2025, 22:01
An HP blue seat and interior cockpit would have been awesome—like those special edition Ferraris with blue seats. Instead, we got a slanted white stripe with an HP logo? Definitely a missed opportunity.
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
19th February 2025, 18:48
HP Sauce colours would’ve been awesome-er
N
18th February 2025, 22:05
very 2010-esque
Tango Victor
18th February 2025, 22:12
This is SF-25, not the livery. The front suspension tells it all… welcome back Pull-Rod.
Asanator
18th February 2025, 23:08
Yep, I noticed that too. Am surprised it wasn’t mentioned sooner or in the article.
Chris Horton
18th February 2025, 22:15
Way too many sponsors now. It’s looking a mess sadly.
And that’s aside from the HP logos.
Kringle
19th February 2025, 12:03
I didn’t even notice the white, I was trying to look at the shape and became disorientated at the myriad of stickers slapped here, there and everywhere.
An Sionnach
18th February 2025, 22:16
Cool video. I like the car other than the white stripe, white rear wing and… the white on the front wing.
Paul (@frankjaeger)
18th February 2025, 22:34
A beauty in my opinion, love the darker wine red they’ve been adopting
Tifoso1989 (@tifoso1989)
18th February 2025, 23:08
Aside from the ruined livery with the white and blue, the red Ferrari looks great to me. The front pull-rod suspension, confirmed with the RBR style anti-dive. Even though these are just renders, the car appears aggressive and a complete departure from the past. I’ll reserve final judgment until the shakedown, but I anticipate a completely redesigned front-end, along with adjustments to the sidepods area, the floor and the entire rear-end.
BasCB (@bascb)
19th February 2025, 7:04
Yeah, good to see they didn’t shy away from taking bold-ish steps to try and get to the front of the field. I hope it helps keeping the racing competitive this year
KZ
18th February 2025, 23:10
Interesting to see that they have gone away from the red bull style sidepod and gone a McLaren style sidepod.
Roy Beedrill
18th February 2025, 23:31
Now being a Ferrari fan hurts eyes too.
High Chaparral
18th February 2025, 23:41
I hope they’re charging HP extra.
Jojo
18th February 2025, 23:55
I love the red (as always), I’d sort of be ok with the white stripes and white wings, but I don’t think they can make the HP logos look good with that car unfortunately.
Biggsy
19th February 2025, 0:12
Whatever HP and IBM are paying, it’s not nearly enough for ruining the car so horribly.
It would have easily been one of the most beautiful cars, especially with this dark red and with black accents.
But no, they had to ruin it with one color that just doesn’t fit there.
ADUB SMALLBLOCK (@waptraveler)
19th February 2025, 2:11
Who sees this and says “Oh, I love Ferarri Red”?
Maciek (@maciek)
19th February 2025, 2:25
Honestly if only they’d have that stripe running in the other direction it would already be a major improvement
Sumedh
19th February 2025, 3:43
My God. This is right up there with that Mission Winnow Green in terms of ghastlyness.
Just hope it goes very fast.
The sponsor list is growing a lot. Lewis’s signing is already paying off dividends there.
mmertens (@mmertens)
19th February 2025, 4:08
This is awful. It’s like they got the HP logo from 2003 Williams and plastered in the Ferrari. A disgrace. The wine red tone make it worse as a combination with HP. They should use early 2000 solid red, would be better to hide a bit the horrendous HP design. They were nailing the liveries since mission winnow disaster, but this one is worse. Hamilton yellow helmet would fit much better with last year’s livery too. Terrible.
Jere (@jerejj)
19th February 2025, 7:34
I like the white portions on the PU cover.
David
19th February 2025, 8:37
Surprised that HP would have allowed the IBM sponsorship, but then again IBM is almost entirely a services company now so they may not consider themselves rivals any more. How things change.
And among the excess of logos and colours, the Unicredit ones are by far the worst. Like someone printed them at home and stuck them on while nobody was looking.
David BR (@david-br)
19th February 2025, 9:21
Car design looks promising, car paint looks awful.
I always wonder, if a company logo/colour scheme clearly wrecks a car’s look, do the sponsors care? I mean, they could keep the HP symbol but alter the colours to blend better and it would look more classy. Or do the company execs say ‘no we insist that our symbol looks trashy and annoys all your fans, that’s what we’re about!’
Or does nobody bother thinking of an alternative?
Phil Norman (@phil-f1-21)
19th February 2025, 10:04
Well the livery is ruined by the HP logo. Yes, ruined. I think it might have been better to have the HP logo on the side pod and the Shell logo on the PU cover? I don’t mind the white flashes on the wings, front or back, so much but the diagonal white stripe is awful. I guess this is what happens when you accept a lot of money from someone.
Let’s just hope the car is competitive.
MichaelN
19th February 2025, 10:52
It’s a right mess. There’s not really a design, more of a free for all with unconnected stickers.
But it’s good to see they’ve taken big steps in an attempt to improve on the previous concept.
It’d be so cool to see Hamilton and Leclerc challenge for the title. Here’s hoping they’ve managed to get this one right.
DonSmee (@david-beau)
19th February 2025, 11:10
Love it!!
Tony Mansell (@tonymansell)
19th February 2025, 13:32
Itts probably the worst because it was the best but no one can deny there are not brands who want to be on the car. Just i wish the commercial dept had bigger balls and went for less brands at a higher price. atm it looks like the back of my laptop
Dom (@3dom)
19th February 2025, 13:45
The darker red is fab. We just can’t see enough of it due to the sheer number of sponsors. I feel like I’ve seen a similar shade on a historic Ferrari F1 car from the 80s or 90s l, and that looked lovely because with the lack of stickers it was possible to appreciate the elegant shape of the car. However if the sponsors help contribute to making the car fast so we can have an exciting season, then I’ll accept it (although I’ll still prefer they lost the white stripe, and would appreciate the wings to be red too)
Peter707
19th February 2025, 13:47
I think this shade of red is a bit too deep, together with the white, the car looks like the Alfa Romeo a few years ago.