A nightmare start for Ferrari: never this bad with 25 points per win

A nightmare start for Ferrari: never this bad with 25 points per win. The SF-25 has collected just 17 points in the first two race weekends.

Ferrari leaves China with more questions
With the double disqualification in China, Ferrari wrote one of the darkest pages in its history, becoming the first team in 75 years of F1 to be excluded from the GP standings for two different reasons.

It is a stain that Maranello must erase by working quickly and effectively on a car that appears to struggle with height stabilization and floor movements—issues that do not stem from the front suspension (which, as known, has a new design compared to 2024) but rather from the rear suspension.

The worst starts
So far, this SF-25 has collected just 17 points in the first two race weekends—a meager tally, the worst in the era of 25 points per win, despite this being the first year with a Sprint already in the second weekend. Even in 2020—one of Ferrari’s worst seasons—the start was better, thanks to Charles Leclerc’s second place in the Austrian GP. Here are all the starts of the last 16 seasons, ranked from best to worst.

Year	Car	Points after the second GP
2022	F1-75	78 (45 Leclerc, 33 Sainz)
2010	F10	70 (37 Alonso, 33 Massa)
2018	SF71H	65 (50 Vettel, 15 Raikkonen)
2017	SF70H	65 (43 Vettels, 22 Raikkonens)
2015	SF15-T	52 (40 Vettels, 12 Raikkonens)
2024	SF-24	49 (28 Leclerc, 15 Sainz, 6 Bearman)
2019	SF90	48 (26 Leclerc, 22 Vettel)
2013	F138	40 (22 Massa, 18 Alonso)
2011	150° Italy	36 (20 Alonso, 16 Massa)
2012	F2012	35 (35 Alonso, 0 Massa)
2021	SF21	34 (20 Leclerc, 14 Sainz)
2016	SF16-H	33 (18 Raikkonen, 15 Vettel)
2014	F14 T	30 (24 Alonso, 6 Raikkonen)
2023	SF-23	26 (20 Sainz, 6 Leclerc)
2020	SF1000	19 (18 Leclerc, 1 Vettel)
2025	SF-25	17 (9 Hamilton, 8 Leclerc)

Ferrari fans hope the team identified the problem as early as the Bahrain tests, allowing for a quicker-than-expected solution. The absence of technical director Loïc Serra in China and his presence in Maranello could indicate that Ferrari is working hard for Suzuka and, above all, for Bahrain. The first, being a front-limited circuit, might even mask some of the SF-25’s issues; Bahrain, on the other hand, requires rear-end downforce, something the SF-25 struggles to generate.