Ferrari’s Australian Grand Prix weekend unraveled after a “serious problem” with their 2025 F1 car was uncovered, it has been claimed.

It proved to be a hugely disappointing Ferrari debut for168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton after much pre-season hype and anticipation, with the seven-time world champion only able to finish 10th in Australia, two places behind teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc.

That came after Ferrari made an incorrect strategy call to keep both their drivers on dry tyres for too long when a late rain shower hit the Albert Park Circuit, dropping t𓂃hem down the order.

Ferrari’s performance in a dry qualifying was also underwhelming, with Leclerc seventh and Hamilton eighth as they had to settle for the fourth row, well adrift of pacesetters McLaren.

Was ride height problem to blame?

According to , Ferrari were forced to raise their SF-25 challenger to avoid bo🍸ttoming out too much and wearing away the plank, so🔜mething which can lead to disqualification.

The report claims this decision was taken after 𒐪a “serious problem” was discovered on the simulator, which revealed Ferrari had been running their car too close to🍸 the ground during Friday practice.

Ferrari addressed the problem bꦰy running their car in a compromised state for Saturday and Sunday, resulting in a loss of outright downforce and sliding, which ate through the rear tyres - costing further performance.

The report added: “Australia is not a significant circuit to judge a car, we will have to wait for the answers of China and, above all, Japan to get an idea of the real value of the red,♔ but what Fred Vasseur had pompously indicated as a world championship team, has highlighted several stretch marks.

“…Ferrari must turn the pag♌e and immediately think of Shanghai, in the hope that the Aust🐼ralian disaster will remain an isolated episode.”

Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseu♔r indicated that his team had failed to optimise the𝓡ir car for the Melbourne track.

"The conditions today are ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnot representative of the performance. Friday to Q2 is more representative," he said. 

"As soon as you overheat the tyres you have a big☂ drop.🅘 The real picture of the performance is more what we saw on Friday and Saturday but even then McLaren is one step ahead.

"If you don💦't adapt the car to the weekend to the tyres, to the track temp, you are out of the range of performance. Next weekend will be a different🅺 one."